Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] perfectly [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it .
2 Equally , however , it might be perfectly reasonable to use a headline that encourages the reader to read on to find out what the proposition is .
3 And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry .
4 When the meal is over you 'll be perfectly free to return to that absorbing book of yours . ’
5 In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention .
6 While you may be perfectly willing to hand over authority this action may not always be received with enthusiasm .
7 Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve .
8 It would be perfectly reasonable to keep them all in the same genus .
9 It would be perfectly reasonable to think of pitch as ranging instead from ‘ light ’ to ‘ heavy ’ , for example , or from ‘ left ’ to ‘ right ’ , and people who have difficulty in ‘ hearing ’ intonation patterns are generally only having difficulty in relating what they hear ( which is the same as what everyone else hears ) to this ‘ pseudo-spatial ’ representation .
10 But Mr Mills , who is now a director of Aspinwalls , an environment consultancy firm , goes on : ‘ Because of what I know , I would be perfectly content to live next to any of the plants we have .
11 Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate .
12 However , independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ( The Structure of Alcoholic Taxes : A Hangover from the past , 1990 ) and by the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between Alcoholic Drinks : An Analysis , 1991 ) indicates that it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits , and levelling up the duty on wines and beers , so that all alcoholic drinks are taxed at the same rate of duty per degree of alcohol content .
13 It would be perfectly possible to give the rights to children without imposing the duties on them , the one does not entail the other , but we would then still be distinguishing between adults and children as citizens .
14 Our previous submissions and the evidence of the Treasury 's own demand equations , indicate that it would be perfectly possible to move toward a more equitable tax system and maintain revenue .
15 It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local .
16 He said he would be perfectly ready to serve with me .
17 ‘ It would be perfectly natural to hope that your husband had n't died for someone second-rate , but I suppose the boy has a point of view .
18 As things stood then — and indeed as things still stand in 1984 — they would be perfectly entitled to do so .
19 He said he would be perfectly happy to back me .
20 This in itself is highly significant , particularly since many New Testament scholars seem to believe that the early Christians had no sense of historical propriety and would be perfectly happy to dream up some saying and attribute it to Jesus , or to listen to a message from one of the Christian prophets in the congregation , and then put that into the mouth of the historical Jesus .
21 On the other hand I was assured by the Lord Chancellor and by the Prime Minister that the Cabinet would be perfectly happy to work either under me or Alec Home .
22 Ah , I was just going to say , if it had n't already been done , erm Friends of the Earth will be perfectly willing to do that . .
23 So And he 's doing one er not tomorrow but in a week 's time and will be perfectly happy to record it .
24 You know the stru , i , er , most people will be perfectly happy to watch erm two hours of Robin Williams being a funny D J
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