Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be [verb] [that] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be told that this is an academic quibble since our democratic politicians know what is of constitutional significance in our way of government , approach such matters differently from other reforms , and are politically if not legally constrained . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : If you are not keen on Shakespeare , Stratford may not be the place for you — nearly everywhere you go you will be reminded that this was his birthplace . |
| 3 | And I think , Chairman , we should be reminded that this is a new application , nothing to do with the other one , and I think we should consider this as a new application . |
| 4 | No doubt we shall be told that this was exactly what General Schwarzkopf planned . |
| 5 | It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most . |
| 6 | ( 11.5 ) With this , the line element ( 11.4 ) can be written in the form ( 11.6 ) and the two main equations ( 6.22d , e ) can be written as the single complex equation ( 11.7 ) It may be seen that this is in fact Ernst 's equation , which can be written in the coordinate-invariant form ( 11.8 ) where is the square of the gradient of an arbitrary scalar field which , in this case , is a function of the two ( null ) coordinates only . |
| 7 | It may be noted that this property is also shared by the combination of terms that are contained in ( 10.16 ) . |
| 8 | It may be noted that this area is supported by the ESPRIT 11 programme . |
| 9 | As anticipated in the discussion in Section 7.2 , it may be observed that this expression contains the necessary multiples of and that are required to cancel the effects of the unbounded term on the boundary . |
| 10 | It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral . |
| 11 | It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all . |
| 12 | It may be said that this is tyranny . |
| 13 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 14 | For anthropologists it may be assumed that this is an uncontroversial statement . |
| 15 | It may be argued that this was not a new concept of the basic function of monarchy ; perhaps so . |
| 16 | It may be argued that this last point has more to do with why the speaker talked about something than with what he talked about . |
| 17 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 18 | It may be argued that this is an appropriate restriction , since the law catches only those who disseminate or broadcast their propaganda on a wide scale , and not those whose correspondence is entirely private . |
| 19 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 20 | It may be argued that this issue was seriously underpriced and that the nation undersold-its asset by about 1.3 billion . |
| 21 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 22 | So far we have considered three ways of sampling directly from a given population , but it may be thought that this direct method has dangers attached . |
| 23 | By applying the coordinate rotation ( 12.11 ) to the line element ( 11.12 ) , it may be shown that this rotation is exactly equivalent to the transformation ( 12.9 ) , indicating that this transformation may be simply interpreted as a global rotation of coordinates . |
| 24 | It should be emphasised that this is only a tentative illustration . |
| 25 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 26 | Indeed , in what follows , wherever we refer to the transactions demand , L t , it should be understood that this includes the precautionary demand . |
| 27 | • It should be noted that this method does require some help , even if it is of the most menial nature . |
| 28 | But it should be noted that this document envisaged a definite stage of development in which Northern Ireland would be significantly changed as a result of success in achieving the reforms being demanded by the civil rights movement . |
| 29 | It should be noted that this type of shelf should be replaced with something more suitable at the earliest opportunity . |
| 30 | It should be noted that this exercise was not concerned with cost-benefit analysis , as at this point no potential costs had been derived or considered . |