Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also prove to be the case that failure to recognize this obsolescence sufficiently early also prevented the development potential of records of achievement being recognized . |
| 2 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 3 | It may well prove to be an impossible task . |
| 4 | For many people , singing or playing at services is perhaps their only link with the Church , and it may well prove to be a temporary one . |
| 5 | The state is now determined to move the curriculum further in that direction , and it may well have to be accepted as a fact of life , of sheer survival . |
| 6 | It may not appear to be strictly in keeping with the true spirit of love , but there is a great deal of useful ‘ good ’ to be learned from a military background . |
| 7 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 8 | Explaining the proposals , MCC secretary Col John Stephenson said : ‘ We have had to cater for all cricket , so it may not seem to be as tough as some people have been demanding . |
| 9 | But it may still prove to be the route to more jobs |
| 10 | At first sight it may seem surprising that if , as I am claiming , the superego is underdeveloped in welfare totalitarianisms because the means of state coercion are overdeveloped , it should nevertheless need to be dissolved in anything . |
| 11 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 12 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 13 | Faith is something which is merely believed , so it must always expect to be open to doubt . |
| 14 | It might get to be a bit of a bastard , the next few days , and then it might just get to be amusing . |
| 15 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 16 | It might even come to be accepted that the discovery of flaws in the original investigation need not necessarily lead to the dropping of charges but may , instead , strengthen the case against the suspect through discovery of fresh evidence or by plugging of gaps in the original investigation . |
| 17 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it 'll just have to be . |
| 19 | er , we 'll get it all sorted , you know what you like , you sit there and you think oh I want it , to get it all sorted before I go and move , it 'll just have to be in a tip for a while . |
| 20 | Orphaned when it 's own mother died while giving birth it 'll either have to be bottle fed , or another mother found . |
| 21 | ‘ If not , it 'll probably have to be the bus . ’ |
| 22 | It 'll still have to be cut in though would n't it ? |
| 23 | It could not fail to be excellent in your hands , and quite put Mr Thackeray in the shade . |
| 24 | It could not afford to be seen as a drain on the taxpayer and it should be relevant to the times . |
| 25 | Some NAM members , including Egypt , Iran , Malaysia and Pakistan , tried unsuccessfully to secure the expulsion of the FRY delegation on the grounds that it could not claim to be the rightful successor of the former Yugoslav state . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , now that Tanya Donelly ( who wrote it ) is quitting the band , it could yet prove to be Throwing Muses ' swansong . |
| 27 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the broad unity and homogeneity of the Bible itself had not been really seriously challenged in earlier centuries , whereas it could now appear to be falling apart under the impact of the new critical approaches of the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Even if there was personal participation by all the citizens in the making of decisions and policies , the only situation in which it would even appear to be clear what was the will of the people would be a unanimous decision . |
| 30 | However as in the sentry the message of hope is a false one and the soldiers died anyway , while the snow in the phrase ‘ until this morning and this snow ’ is assuredly a description of the same it would also appear to be in contrast to the warm sun as death is the contrast to life and the day the soldier is brought out the sun fails to wake him and there is snow . |