Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 2 | In the matter of misguided teaching , it may well be asked to what extent the missionaries of the western world have contributed to the immense amount of suffering endured by underdeveloped peoples . |
| 3 | Meetings , Bloody Meetings is the title of a well-known training film produced by Video Arts Ltd , and it may well be shown to you on your course . |
| 4 | When the Rump was restored in May , he appeared before it to urge that the government ‘ may not be too long trusted in any man 's hands : that it may not be perpetuated to men ’ . |
| 5 | Again it may not be thought to be particularly helpful that God in God 's undifferentiated nature ( or indeed the Spirit in its rather vague nature ) are to be understood as ‘ female ’ , while ‘ divine energies ’ ( sic ) , that which is clearly differentiated and self-determining , is to be seen as ‘ male ’ . |
| 6 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 7 | It may then be extended to non-zero Ri by saying provided that the conditions required for ( 21.27 ) are still fulfilled ( i.e. z is within the wall layer but outside the viscous sub-layer ) . |
| 8 | I think that spaghetti should be thin and it may often be referred to as spaghettini — it 's much less like eating long worms ! |
| 9 | As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter . |
| 10 | Sulking is a common occurrence , but it may sometimes be carried to an anti-social extreme . |
| 11 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 12 | Mr Rees-Davies suggested that ‘ surely … if anonymity is to be given during a trial to the complainant , it should also be given to the accused ’ . |
| 13 | Present guidelines advise that you stick with breast or formula milk until at least six months , although some nutritionists feel that , because cow 's milk is low in iron and vitamin D , it should n't be given to babies under a year . |
| 14 | Looping the loop is a perfectly normal manoeuvere for this sort of aircraft and there 's no reason whatsoever why it should n't be demonstrated to the public |
| 15 | It should not be tethered to subjects that do not interest it but like the whole organism , it must find what is its bent and true interest and follow that all its life . |
| 16 | He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either . |
| 17 | Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country . |
| 18 | The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising . |
| 19 | Research is being carried out on that , but it should be speeded up and it should not be left to police officers to buy such body protection . |
| 20 | Although most doctors will be aware of this , it should still be referred to directly in the letter of instruction so that the doctor can indicate if there is some aspect of the report which should be withheld from the client , such as where the client is suffering from a non-related and serious illness or , in a psychiatric case , where disclosure of the report would exacerbate the symptoms . |
| 21 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 22 | This view would appear to contain much sense ; but it must not be taken to the extreme . |
| 23 | Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate . |
| 24 | Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker . |
| 25 | His lack of family feeling and unquestioning assumption that it must always be sacrificed to necessities of State emerge clearly from his political testaments of 1752 and 1768 , the most revealing of all statements of his basic ideas . |
| 26 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 27 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | E. A. Freeman 's description of Dalmatia as ‘ a Slavonic land with an Italian fringe ’ refers to the cultural geography of the Adriatic coastlands , but it might also be applied to the physical geography ( as ‘ a Dinaric land with a Mediterranean fringe ’ ) . |
| 29 | He had been able to appear " normal " because he was abnormal , he was an outsider , he was mad , he saw and desired normality with a piercing vision of what it might ideally be thought to be . |
| 30 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |