Example sentences of "indeed it [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it would be difficult to imagine how children were able to use language to communicate if no such conception were present . |
| 2 | Now the person does not exist who is going to travel through life without experiencing the highs and lows — not to mention all those feelings in between — and indeed it would be a pretty boring life if that were the case . |
| 3 | Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak . |
| 4 | Indeed it would be entertaining to trace all his mistakes ( including his comic theory of tides ) and see how he corrected earlier guesses as he progressed . |
| 5 | Beatrix Potter and Tove Jansson are examples , and indeed it would be difficult to think of anyone illustrating the Moomin stories other than their author . |
| 6 | Indeed it would be dangerous : it would make communication less effective , the operation less efficient , and put the patient in peril . |
| 7 | Indeed it would be more to the point had her will of 1784 been retitled ‘ Funeral Instructions ’ as most of its wording relates specifically to the funeral . |
| 8 | It is true that Rigoberta Menchu sympathises with the aims of the EGP , which are an end to the repression of the Mayan people — indeed it would be extraordinary if she did n't . |
| 9 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |
| 10 | Much of the emphasis on set theory in Lacan and others , as well as the similarity of certain of their ideas to those of Gödel , whose work Cavaillès utilizes , can be attributed to his influence : indeed it would be possible to argue that the whole emphasis in post-war French thinkers on a non-contradictory heterogeneity in which incompatible or incommensurable elements are juxtaposed against or as part of each other is derived as much from set theory as from Freud . |
| 11 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 12 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 13 | Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree . |
| 14 | It would now be an act of political madness further to raise them to support the pound ( as indeed it would be to sacrifice more of our reserves to the same purpose ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 16 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 17 | After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete . |
| 18 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 19 | Indeed it may be asked why companies whose first duty is to their shareholders should put huge sums into the education system . |
| 20 | As a result , there are very few materials which are inert in the body and indeed it may be argued that none are truly inert in this context . |
| 21 | And indeed it may be doubted if Elizabeth Bowen ever wrote a more beautiful story than the early ‘ Joining Charles ’ . |
| 22 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 23 | Indeed it may be ( as in my case ) because one deeply cares that there should be good and equal relations between men and women that one is adamant that no one human being can be given the kind of status which Christians give to Christ . |
| 24 | Indeed it may be that this was ‘ the last straw ’ for W. |
| 25 | Indeed it may be a symbolic irony that the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act has occurred in the European Year of Older People . |
| 26 | Also , if the market is not defined early the wrong ‘ working application ’ may be used or indeed it may be found , too late , that there is no commercial application at all . |
| 27 | Indeed it may be that this is also a direct aid in setting tasks which have stepped differentiation within them . |
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| 29 | Adam fears it was through his coming to us from Castell Coch , and indeed it may be so . |
| 30 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |