Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This might be just a game to you , but I 'm working , and I 'm going to be late if you hold me up ! ’ |
| 2 | Still , he was very good-looking and not being dressed as a clergyman might be quite an asset to their party . |
| 3 | With home recording equipment so comparatively cheap these days ( you can buy quite a workmanlike setup for the cost of a decent guitar ) these video manuals could be just the answer to a layman 's prayer . |
| 4 | In Ukraine the result could be either a return to the Russian fold , or a reversion to authoritarian rule , compounded perhaps by civil war in the Russified eastern regions of the country . |
| 5 | The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms . |
| 6 | The invasion of Afghanistan may be less an exception to this rule than many think . |
| 7 | The men said they would be out every night to " pay for " this prosecution and during the following week two fallow deer fawns were killed . |
| 8 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 9 | The water can be both a barrier to our travel and a pathway for our commerce . |