Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 2 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 3 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 4 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 5 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 6 | Frederica could , in the Lake District , have seen a " Wordsworthian " tarn and been able to render it in Wordsworthian words , and , because these words were known , tested , thought about , she could have introduced minute changes , have seen one little thing he had n't seen , changed the point of view . |
| 7 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 9 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 10 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 11 | And if this 6Mb does exist , would it be possible to recover it for general use ? |
| 12 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 13 | It should be possible to convert it to other BASICs without too much difficulty . |
| 14 | But no matter what path an observer followed , it would not be possible to provide him with stained-glass cinema . |
| 15 | ‘ If he shares his uncle 's hostility towards the female sex he might very well be prepared to treat them with similar contempt ! ’ |
| 16 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 17 | Although some dogs do adapt if they have a very placid nature , the majority carry real scars — and I 'm afraid leaving her for eight-hour stretches certainly is n't helping . |
| 18 | So important is this consideration , and it would be perfunctory to regard it as mere vanity , that it may motivate performances to anonymous and usually unconcerned strangers . |
| 19 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 20 | So , to take one illustration from the law reports , if you are the company 's assistant accountant , it could be unfair to dismiss you for alleged lack of management ability if that has no real bearing on your daily tasks . |
| 21 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 22 | But they could possibly , they surely must be able to do it through natural wastage to some extent . |
| 23 | I felt a little shy : all those things we had written — would I be able to translate them into physical action , into real , spoken words ? |
| 24 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 25 | If the tooth is loosened in its socket , modern dental surgery may be able to fix it to adjacent teeth . |
| 26 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 27 | If you 'd like to find out more about the Council Tax then call the Action Team , they 'll be able to put you in direct contact with someone who can sort out any problems you may have , call them now on 031-557–3194 during office hours . |
| 28 | To be able to change them into different fractions . |
| 29 | The F-15 is capable of dealing with all foreseeable large threats for some time ; and if a new Russian regime started to develop a better fighter , America would still be able to beat it into large-scale production of an improved version of the YF-22 . |
| 30 | Chances are I will be able to help you with other topics , so do n't be put off writing again because I was no help the first time . |