Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a particular form of notice is prescribed , failure to serve notice in the prescribed form will not generally invalidate the notice ( Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral v Lennards Ltd ( 1977 ) 35 P & CR 309 ) ; although where the timetable is tight and the landlord 's notice is required to state a rental figure it may be of the essence that the notice should do so ( Commission for New Towns v R Levy & Co [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 121 ) . |
| 2 | Also it may be to the witnesses that things are different now he is no longer with us . ’ |
| 3 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 4 | Before I call the proposer and the seconder of the motion on the Loyal Address , it may be for the convenience of hon. Members if I inform the House that the proposed subjects for debate for the rest of this week and for next week are as follows : |
| 5 | We are all familiar with that quaint parliamentary phrase , ’ It may be for the convenience of Members ’ , and then some information is imparted that is often for anything but the convenience of hon. Members . |
| 6 | In other words , the hegemony of the social representation of science can not possibly be total , and there is even evidence that it may be on the wane . |
| 7 | It may be on the lendri 's scent , but the lendri will be underground by now . |
| 8 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 9 | If you did n't then it may be with the person that borrowed the equipment . |
| 10 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |
| 11 | It may be beyond the capacity of a 12- or 15-teacher secondary school , a 10-teacher middle school , a 10-teacher primary school or an 8-teacher first school . |
| 12 | With a large dog , like a Rottweiler , it may be beyond the capability of the new owner to dominate the newly acquired adult dog . |
| 13 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 14 | It may be at the end of end of all this that you you are nevertheless convinced that there ought to be a policy . |
| 15 | After all , it may be in the interests of some people , especially those who introduce the new technology , not to admit to the existence of the real forces that shape the direction of technical change . |
| 16 | Whilst it may be in the interests of the court and a ‘ fair result ’ for as much as possible to be disclosed in the early stages so that the matters really in dispute can be identified and the strength of the evidence assessed , it will often be in the interests of the parties to conceal what they know . |
| 17 | If there is a point of similarity and comparison between the assemblies of these three countries , it may be in the influence and growing importance of their committee systems . |
| 18 | So a modern sexual dimorphism is explicable in terms of erm inter-male er conflict and it may be in the case of human beings er most of them are , for example the larger body weight of males that we saw when we looked at sexual dimorphism in human beings is probably explicable erm in terms of inter-male conflict like it is in chimpanzees . |
| 19 | However it may be in the trainee 's interests if integrated facilities are used throughout eg. the transfer of data from one application to another . |
| 20 | And where there is a stable and well established relationship between buyer and supplier , it may be in the interest of both to allow the supplier to build up an accurate sales forecast . |
| 21 | It may be in the interest of neither of those two persons to do so . |
| 22 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 23 | It is in fact surprising that landlords are prepared to allow occupation of premises by members of the same group of companies as the tenant without a formal assignment , but needless to say it may be in the tenant 's best interests to try to include this provision if it is not initially incorporated in the lease . |
| 24 | Then it may be in the parties ' interests to leave the money in the account but transfer the benefit of the account to the third party by some other means ; for instance , by the depositor constituting himself a trustee of the account for the benefit of the third party , or by him assigning the money in his account to the third party . |
| 25 | The chairman of the education committee said ‘ If boys are to be turned into fairies and girls into butch young maids , it should be for the parent to decide and not the education authorities ’ ( TES 13.10.78 ) . |
| 26 | Regular males invite regular females into their nest to spawn , and the regular male swims round with the regular female , as she disperses her eggs , he disperses his , his er sperm and er that 's the way it should be for the benefit of the species . |
| 27 | As with any other policy the insurers will commonly require exclusions against the following : ( 1 ) The adequacy of insurance arrangements The view of the insurers is that it should be for the purchaser to determine whether existing insurance cover for the business is adequate and if it is not to increase the level of cover with effect from completion . |
| 28 | Formal just how it should be on the B B C thank you very much indeed to everybody erm joining in that debate . |
| 29 | Because really in my view it should be that once something like this happened then it should be on the owners to prove they have n't been negligent . |
| 30 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |