Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 2 | They appear to be just what would be required to exploit the " chirp radar " technique . |
| 3 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 4 | Only in 1835 , after intermittent rioting , subsequently suppressed by the Coldstream Guards , did the magistrates cautiously suggest that unrest had ended , ‘ Otmoor , being now it may be hoped in a state of permanent tranquillity ’ . |
| 5 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 6 | Bodies such as Links and the Spastic Society which produce quite a substantial report at the last election to illustrate what the problems were then there will be established designated polling stations in which there will be various characteristics required such as wheelchair access , unaided wheelchair access , although the problem of accessibility is for more people than those people who are in wheelchairs and many people who are not registered disabled and are mainly old and infirm , should have the opportunity to exercise their franchise readily and easily . |
| 7 | To ensure that this is so it must be agreed that it is regarded as being beyond the capacity of the individual to alter , that is , it has to become ‘ sacred ’ , or enshrined in a ‘ god ’ . |
| 8 | Indeed , since the female has the prime investment in young , this is exactly what would be expected from Trivers 's elaboration of Darwin 's account of sexual selection ( p. 52 ) . |
| 9 | This is exactly what would be expected if alcohol acts as a spindle disrupting agent . |
| 10 | Thus the interaction between these stimuli is just what would be expected from considerations of generalization decrement and is not that predicted by conditioned attention theory . |
| 11 | This capacity of the adjective to stand alongside the verb is just what would be expected if there is a specially close link between the verb and the adjective in the case of the adverbal construction . |
| 12 | This says that while it may be all very well to make philosophical statements about evil , evil nevertheless is real , and not merely an absence ; and what 's more it can be resisted , and what 's more still not resisting it ( in the belief that one day Omnipotence will cure all ills ) is a dereliction of duty . |
| 13 | If the frequency difference between half-power points on the resonance curve is then it can be shown that , for small loss , the loss factor The vibrating reed method may therefore be used to plot the loss-factor/ temperature " spectrum " ( although for precise work the change of resonant frequency with temperature needs to be compensated for by , for example , time-temperature superposition . |
| 14 | It is certainly what would be expected if the latent inhibitor functions like a CS- but it could just as easily be a consequence of generalization decrement — adding another stimulus to the excitatory CS might modify the way in which the latter is perceived and thus reduce its ability to evoke the CR . |
| 15 | Where this was so it will be discussed , together with other comments , in the brief ‘ case descriptions ’ attached at the end of each of the chapters that follow . |
| 16 | Liam Murphy was now what could be called in any circumstances a rich man . |
| 17 | The question was then what should be done with it — and there was no point in setting up the collection unless it was going to be a working library . |
| 18 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |