Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle Orrin , shall I always be regarded as my father 's heiress , never seen for what I truly am ? ’ |
| 2 | For Robinson , it was necessary to cease to talk in terms of moral absolutes and , consequently , he argued , ‘ nothing can of itself always be labelled as wrong ’ . |
| 3 | But this causes problems from the hard-line positivist point of view : if ‘ definitions ’ can vary in terms of such nebulous things as subjective meanings , how can they possibly be counted and measured ? |
| 4 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 5 | How can it possibly be construed as unreasonable that the US discuss and join in an internationally negotiated end to the occupation of Palestine and Lebanon as well as Kuwait ? |
| 6 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 7 | On the other hand , could it also be argued that without this form of population control there might be an over-population of some wild species and that nature would have to find some other way of correcting it ? |
| 8 | In neither instance could it reasonably be said that student choice was as wide open as the Shores model would require , and the main area of decision was at what time to go to one 's carrel and enter the process . |
| 9 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 10 | He commented : ‘ While one can observe that a breast is nothing but a modified sweat gland and , indeed , a secondary sexual characteristic , can it truly be heard that breasts are anything but intimately associated with sex or things sexual . ’ |
| 11 | If it is assumed that the system of corporate enterprise is the most efficient system for the creation of wealth , should it therefore be concluded that corporate power is legitimate ? |