Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , tax rates are relatively easy to alter and so may be the more appropriate means to adjust fiscal policy when changing economic conditions require action . |
| 2 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 3 | Last in should be the tent , which can be carried under the rucksack flap , and your waterproofs . |
| 4 | The local paper achieves greatest penetration of the school 's target audience and so should be the focus of your efforts . |
| 5 | To keep the family together must be the first aim , and the separation of the child from its parents can only be justified when there is no possibility of securing adequate care for that child in his own home . |
| 6 | The new Secretary of State has recognised what we said all along should be the right and reasonable level of development in Hampshire . |
| 7 | So would be the One Thousand and One Nights ; and a later times stories such as She by R. Haggard , and Lost Horizons by Hilton would come in the same category . |
| 8 | His idea was that , as the Masai acquired more and more permanent waters , they would at first acquire more and more cattle ; indeed , the prospect of doing so would be the incentive required to get them to pay for the water in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ But even more so would be the benefit of their experiences which will be invaluable to me at national team level ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Becoming godparents to the babies they invested such time and love in would be the ideal answer . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think sewing it together would be the slightest use . ’ |
| 12 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 13 | If phytoplankton , the microscopic free-floating algae that form the basis of the marine food chain , are adversely affected , then so will be the krill , the tiny animals that feed on them , and then fish , seabirds , seals and whales . |
| 14 | To what extent they are under a legal obligation to do so will be the subject of the following section . |
| 15 | If the entity model is inaccurate so will be the database and the applications that use it . |
| 16 | Er the worst side obviously will be the drill bit side where Retool is not very significant in the North Sea Hycal on the other hand has a very strong market presence here er and Reler being submersible pumps and base based in enhanced recovery I would say the effect would be relatively neutral , though they do a lot of business with companies like B P who are said to be one of the beneficiaries . |
| 17 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 18 | ‘ There are great expectations , pious hopes and myriad uncertainties which have coalesced to cause a frisson of excitement at the prospect of success , for success alone can be the only option that should be countenanced . ’ |
| 19 | Likewise it is often not sufficiently recognised that the ‘ state ’ which would supposedly execute the progressive measures might be very much disinclined to do so and anyway may be the object of considerable public mistrust . |
| 20 | Paragraph two er development generally should be the exception rather than the rule er building in the open countryside should be strictly controlled . |
| 21 | For a moment she thought that just might be the best thing to do . |
| 22 | What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ? |
| 23 | They just could be the first band in history to sell genuine English music to the Americans . |
| 24 | Tomorrow just could be the day . |
| 25 | The parties listed in schedule 2 hereto shall be the lead actions in the rate swaps litigation . |
| 26 | But tonight it is true , and tonight will be the last time . ’ |
| 27 | Tonight will be the climax of my career . |
| 28 | Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson . |
| 29 | Taking over will be the Rev John Woods . |
| 30 | The isolated cremations found in the Ailias cemetery on the eastern fringes of Knossos and dating to around 1600 BC may be the graves of foreigners from Anatolia , where cremation burials were the norm . |