Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the client proposes an asking price which appears even after investigation to be unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement . |
| 2 | If a client proposes an asking price which appears unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement rather than to be involved in protracted negotiations which are likely to have little prospect of success . |
| 3 | The texts should be practicable to administer in the classroom context , and to mark and moderate . |
| 4 | He continued : ‘ In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . ’ |
| 5 | In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . |
| 6 | It ca n't be right to cry through the night . |
| 7 | Many will be sorry to hear of the death at home of Terence Goldsmith , former publishing director of Blandford Press , on 16th December . |
| 8 | In the case of ecclesiastical property this may be done through the church authorities ; in the case of other buildings it will be possible to consult with the agents who handled the commercial matters concerned ; these can be identified by consultation with the local authority . |
| 9 | At the same time it would be possible to re-locate within the boundaries of the land owned by the Borough Council to improve drainage and avoid the part which would be affected by the proposed cross-town route . |
| 10 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 11 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 12 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 13 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 14 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 15 | Acheson informed the British ambassador in Washington on 24 December 1949 that because of inability ‘ to find satisfactory answers to certain basic problems confronting us ’ , it would not be possible to adhere to the schedule originally decided with Bevin in September . |
| 16 | In other words , if it were possible to remove the grievances of the middle classes against those above them , then it might also be possible to nip off the danger of an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes below them . |
| 17 | It would , of course , not be possible to argue along the lines of an ‘ implied term ’ of contract , since no contract exists . |
| 18 | It might just be possible to get past the ticket collector at West Hampstead without paying but at Finchley Road there was a nearly impenetrable barrier of ticket gates . |
| 19 | If we could identify the factors that cause this , it would be possible to interfere with the process and prevent cot deaths , ’ Prof Weir said . |
| 20 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 21 | It may be possible to study for the course by distance learning , so that the modules can be covered at an appropriate time in your training . |
| 22 | Would it be possible to speak with the ladies of the harem , Mahmoud asked diffidently . |
| 23 | It would be possible to add to the system indefinitely until every one of the recorded parameters that is normally displayed on an instrument in the cockpit of an aircraft was reproduced in this way . |
| 24 | Having said that , it would be possible to extract from the rhetoric , and the general statements of the NCC and from the syllabuses so far produced , words which might suggest that the NCC executives agree . |
| 25 | There was a short silence as they both drank coffee , and then Miriam said sharply , ‘ Why should it be odd to refer to the infant in the neuter ? |
| 26 | 7 Be prepared to act as the diplomat within your Company . |
| 27 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 28 | The audience are coming to these shows knowing fully that they should be prepared to deal with the present and the future . |
| 29 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Sir Richard Williams has pledged that the Baron Hill estate would be prepared to talk to the council about any schemes to improve the Castle car park , bowling green and allotments , which are owned by the estate . |