Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal . |
| 2 | It would be possible to set about this exercise with the assumption that legal regulation of family and personal behaviour is law insofar as its pedigree passes the appropriate test . |
| 3 | Gilford , a 27-year-old from Crewe , is so keen to make the European team that he would even be prepared to give up any invitation he might receive to compete in the US Open this year . |
| 4 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 5 | A man who , through choice or redundancy , decides to work from home , may be willing to take on simple cooking and housework so that his wife can return to full-time employment . |
| 6 | ‘ Nurses should be advised to resist such pressure and not be afraid to turn down any assignment which they feel may be outside their sphere of competence . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |
| 8 | As the crow flies , Elterwater and Grasmere are only two miles apart , so it would be easy to miss out this day 's walk if you wanted to shorten the complete circuit . |
| 9 | It would be pointless to go over well-worn ground in discussing what pornography is or is not , and why , how and when . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd be welcome to look around any time you like . ’ |
| 11 | There are two obvious reasons why it may be hard to set up this market . |
| 12 | If a fundamental change in action proves impossible , it should at least be feasible to build up that part of the physique at greatest risk . |
| 13 | You know , i i you need to be full to fill up that area because well , you know yourself , people like to stand around the bar do n't they ? |
| 14 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 15 | The US will , however , be able to pick up thematic-mapper information with a ground station at White Sands , New Mexico , to which data will be routed via the US 's new tracking and data relay satellites . |
| 16 | So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more . |
| 17 | But , as in the case say of a temporary administrator coming in he 'd be able to or she would be able to take up this file and use it . |
| 18 | It may recognise that once the youngest child has left home the wife may again be able to take up gainful employment but that until that time she should be provided with a home rent free . |
| 19 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as revolutionary new superstores take on the High Street giants . |
| 20 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as new superstores take on High Street giants . |
| 21 | With the help of recipe maker you will be able to plan out each meal for an entire week and in just minutes have a complete shopping list needed to make those meals . |
| 22 | The Common Desktop Environment means that users would not have to worry about different install methods and should be able to move around different Unix environments without much retraining . |
| 23 | ‘ The sale means we shall be able to carry out essential work on our original buildings which form the centrepiece of the college and are part of the national heritage . ’ |
| 24 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 25 | Buxton … says police should be able to carry out random breath tests . |
| 26 | ‘ It is particularly pleasing that Councillor Thorne will be able to carry out this duty ’ said Jackie Cope , the Museum 's Curator , ‘ he is very much associated with tourism issues and the regeneration of Keighley as a whole . ’ |
| 27 | Most insects are not powerful enough fliers to be able to carry out seasonal return migrations ; but a few can . |
| 28 | Presumably , Mr Damant would also like to be able to separate out any element of earnings related to discontinued operations , since obviously such earnings can not be maintained . |
| 29 | From this profusion of language-specific material one then might be able to build up some idea of just which aspects of the context of utterance are likely in general to exert functional pressures on language . |
| 30 | Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available . |