Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Enquiries into the loss will still have to be made but care must be taken not to ask questions where the answers might incriminate the Policyholder . |
| 32 | The church leaders said that no party which supports violence can seriously claim to be ‘ discharging its responsibilities in a positive and honourable way ’ in so far as the establishment of peace is concerned . |
| 33 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 34 | Apart from all else the concentration required to hear mentally an orchestral passage while seated in a bus or train or standing in the Underground can not fail to be beneficial . |
| 35 | She could n't defend herself without rousing him to greater ferocity ; she knew that in the moment of conflict , an enemy can never protest to be a friend and be believed ; she had seen the distrust Kit 's sudden switches of mood inspired . |
| 36 | The award of the British Standard BS 5750 ( part 1 ) means that the college can now claim to be a training centre of excellence . |
| 37 | And in Korea , the repression of opposition parties and of student and workers ' protest suggested that policies suitable to early phases of industrialisation might not continue to be so acceptable . |
| 38 | Some of the foundation hardcore may also have to be removed , and any soft ground dug out till you reach a firmer base . |
| 39 | Last year Warren Spring carried out research worth £5 million for the DoE and some current work may now have to be put out to tender . |
| 40 | The child may initially need to be held briefly on the chair , but the parent can release hand pressure as soon as the child settles on the chair . |
| 41 | ‘ The question of peace for the Jews is not less important to civilization for their being a scattered tribe , and ever-rancorous Catholicism may yet have to be bloodily taught not to provoke the persecution and murder of those whom life abides even with partiality ’ . |
| 42 | The management should n't try to be one of the boys . ’ |
| 43 | If all else fails , then throwing the air pump out of the window might not prove to be such a bad idea after all . |
| 44 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 45 | Unfortunately insufficient members turned up to achieve a quorum , but ex-chairman , Robin Brookes , took the opportunity to state that the guild could not continue to be run on a rotation of volunteers . |
| 46 | The young men and women who were suitable for this important work would obviously need to be educated to a level above that of their prospective students . |
| 47 | It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another . |
| 48 | In such a case , a draft conveyance would probably need to be tailor made , and any precedents held on your firm 's word processor may not very precisely fit the particular situation . |
| 49 | It does stress , however , that " existing equipment would not have to be instantly scrapped and replaced by untested prototypes . |
| 50 | The spread of HIV infection through the medium of shared injection equipment would therefore appear to be less likely among Wirral users compared to other major cities in the UK where heroin users mostly inject their drugs . |
| 51 | The proposal will now have to be agreed by the council of EC trade ministers . |
| 52 | The grant that we receive from the Sports Council will only continue to be given if each year our membership increases . |
| 53 | Management will therefore need to be able to have sufficient information to present an accurate account to the media . |
| 54 | Despite earlier fears , the Baltic Exchange will not have to be demolished and is to be repaired at the cost of about £80 million . |
| 55 | The untouched in-tray can sometimes seem to be unbearably stressful . |
| 56 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , sport can not afford to be soft on those who cause the problems — whether it is athletes who , as drug users , habitually cheat , or the spectators who take the law into their own hands and invade football pitches . |
| 58 | If challenged in court , Nimslo 's patent coverage could well prove to be cosmetic . |
| 59 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |
| 60 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |