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 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I think that spaghetti should be thin and it may often be referred to as spaghettini — it 's much less like eating long worms ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sulking is a common occurrence , but it may sometimes be carried to an anti-social extreme . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 18 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 19 | A CO band above 1900 cm -1 is therefore almost certainly due to a terminal CO ; a band below this frequency may be due to a bridging ligand , but it could also be ascribed to a terminal ligand with some unusually severe reduction of the CO bond strength through back-bonding . |
| 20 | So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product . |
| 21 | It could also be said to be an example of the developed use of experienced laymen to assist in the determination of disputes . |
| 22 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 23 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 24 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 25 | It could hardly be put to worse . |
| 26 | It could only be assimilated to it if ‘ I disapprove of prostitution ’ were treated as a tentative way of saying that prostitution is wrong , that is , as a tentative expression of an attitude against prostitution rather than as an expression of one 's awareness of one 's own disapproval of it . |
| 27 | It could only be given to a child in very mild doses because excessive use could cause ‘ retard growth and lasting disfiguration ’ . |
| 28 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 29 | I was convinced it would eventually be revealed to me . ’ |
| 30 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |