Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal .
2 Does the hon. Gentleman agree that , given the higher participation rate in Scotland and the importance of the four-year degree there , it would be right to allocate proportionately more resources to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council ?
3 He feels that in the circumstances it would not be right to have too much fun .
4 If the interdependencies do not involve all SBUs in a corporate group , it might be possible to form largely separable business clusters and form the portfolio-grid analysis in terms of those rather than smaller SBUs .
5 It might be possible to pick up more people .
6 The purpose of the first test was to reveal the definition obtainable with this device , the second was to see whether it would be possible to pick out bright spots and define a measure of reflectance by weighting for brightness .
7 On the back of such IMF programmes , it will be possible to give yet further assistance to the republics of the CIS .
8 It would be possible to set about this exercise with the assumption that legal regulation of family and personal behaviour is law insofar as its pedigree passes the appropriate test .
9 Furthermore , it could be possible to update locally certain factors in the Jarman index more regularly , especially unemployment rates , which change so rapidly .
10 Would it be possible to have just one uplight , as I think the aeration of two powerheads could be causing the algae ?
11 Thus it might be possible to have quite separate words for , say , kills , killed , is killing , and so on , just as we have in English separate words for man ( male human ) and woman ( female human ) or people ( humans in the plural ) .
12 1.4 In the majority of situations it should be possible to diffuse potentially violent confrontations by non physical means .
13 It has to be possible to produce spontaneously original sentences which are based on implicit rules which allow generalisation .
14 Increasingly it will be possible to develop very flexible delivery arrangements for NVQs , including a mix of assessment in the workplace and in a college environment .
15 If we start with a set of basic or ‘ simple ’ vowel phonemes , , , , , , it would then be possible to make up long vowels by using vowels twice .
16 But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection .
17 Gilford , a 27-year-old from Crewe , is so keen to make the European team that he would even be prepared to give up any invitation he might receive to compete in the US Open this year .
18 I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight .
19 However , different people might without illogicality be prepared to universalise quite different considerations , so that there could be alternative moral views , each equally a moral view , even if some of them were , from our point of view , immoral .
20 In selecting the sum for Tender it should also be borne in mind that in cases where an argument of contributory negligence is made , the pursuer himself may , in his own mind , be prepared to accept rather more blame for the accident than would probably be established after Proof .
21 He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed .
22 What the results do indicate is that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality without placing locality in a central position .
23 ( Or how much they might be willing to put out these days . )
24 A man who , through choice or redundancy , decides to work from home , may be willing to take on simple cooking and housework so that his wife can return to full-time employment .
25 Would you be willing to deliver about 10 newsletters to houses nearby ?
26 ‘ Customers seem to be willing to buy as many flavours of Windows as Microsoft wants to sell , but are balking at buying more than one flavour of network . ’
27 That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession .
28 Though inspectors have no enforcement powers , Wing believed they should be free to point out difficult areas of practice .
29 The Executive Committee shall be free to set up such committees as it may think fit and decide their terms of reference ; and have power to fill in any casual vacancies among the Honorary Officers , any officers so appointed serving until the next Annual General Meeting at which elections are due to take place .
30 That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman .
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