Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |
| 3 | It would be pointless to go over well-worn ground in discussing what pornography is or is not , and why , how and when . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as new superstores take on High Street giants . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Buxton … says police should be able to carry out random breath tests . |
| 11 | Most insects are not powerful enough fliers to be able to carry out seasonal return migrations ; but a few can . |
| 12 | The most recent trends in family therapy have tended to suggest that seeking merely to increase self- and family awareness may be insufficient to bring about effective change within the family dynamic . |
| 13 | If efficacy can be shown then the question of harm needs to be considered by using information from the trial itself ( however few the data ) together with other available data ; it may be necessary to set up special surveillance methods . |