Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that it 's just something that Bob is allergic to , but it had better be investigated and some sample testing done in case we need to get on to the manufacturers . |
| 2 | Government grants to farmers to minimize pollution should only be made where such waste management strategies were in place , the NRA argues . |
| 3 | It was always our contention that justice should not only be done but that justice should be seen to be done by the due process of the public inquiry . |
| 4 | Liability could only be incurred if this failure amounted to a breach of an international obligation , or , to put it another way , if there was a duty on the member States to ensure adequate supervision of the organisation they had created . |
| 5 | The cashier holds the other key and the safe deposit box can only be opened if both locks are operated at the same time . |
| 6 | On this basis , knowledge of God could only be established if either God himself were immediately accessible to our awareness , or ‘ God ’ were a category demonstrably necessary , like those of space and time , to the ordering and shaping of our understanding . |
| 7 | I suspect that the proposition that broadly the price of housing will rise at least as fast as inflation could only be falsified if some pestilence almost on the scale of the black death were to occur so that supply vastly exceeded demand or significantly exceeded demand . |
| 8 | Even in such cases references in court to Parliamentary material should only be permitted where such material clearly discloses the mischief aimed at or the legislative intention lying behind the ambiguous or obscure words . |
| 9 | Night work for women could , however , only be introduced if both employers ' and employees ' representatives for the relevant industry in a given country reached agreement on conditions . |
| 10 | Today , in light of the obligations of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter , it could perhaps be argued that each member State has constructive notice of the treaty obligations of all other members and therefore must be deemed to have notice of any restrictions upon treaty-making power . |
| 11 | It may perhaps be questioned whether such restrictions were necessary , since a procession is capable of causing disruption whatever the purpose of those organising it may happen to be . |
| 12 | It should thus be said that any incident which involves , either directly or indirectly , Hamlet himself , is connected with ‘ the main purpose of the play ’ . |
| 13 | It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves . |
| 14 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 15 | Most builders use a simple cost system for job costing ( specific order costing ) and the stores department may well just be treated as another job or cost centre with monthly costing which is balanced and closed on an annual basis . |
| 16 | He went on to explain that the rules of the game could easily be encompassed if some rooms were left without windows , and if the facades did not accurately represent the layout of the interior . |
| 17 | Absences due to sickness and holidays could easily be covered because most people now knew most jobs and could easily be switched around . |
| 18 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 19 | However , a military spokesman warned on April 24 that martial law could easily be re-imposed if any unrest occurred . |
| 20 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 21 | When I started six years ago I did n't know , shall I still be living when this project is completed ? |
| 22 | Du Pont , a leading US chemical firm , said that HCFC-123 could still be used but more care should be taken with it . |
| 23 | Equally important , it must always be emphasised that all approaches , here as elsewhere , are underpinned by a series of ideological assumptions and arguments . |
| 24 | ( e ) Duties generally ( NB Clause 13 ) The matters which would normally be recorded in the partnership agreement under this head include : ( 1 ) the standard form " just and faithful " obligationstrictly unnecessary in view of the overriding nature of the equivalent statutory provisions and the implication that will always be made that such duty exists , but invariably spelled out in writing ; ( 2 ) a requirement that the partners devote themselves to the business of the firm . |
| 25 | They could always be used when any government wished to drag out proceedings or in some way be obstructive . |
| 26 | It could also be said that this quotation applies to school librarians , as part of the educational workforce . |
| 27 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 28 | Regional terminals will also be developed although many critics believe that British Rail 's plans in this area are over-cautious . |
| 29 | It will also be granted if any defence raised is shown merely to be a delaying tactic . |
| 30 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |