Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 And to leave before both cups had been drained would only offend her .
2 7.6 Research on violence to staff in Social Work Departments shows that those who have been attacked can mistakenly feel that they have failed professionally and so may not report an incident in which they have been involved .
3 ‘ We are talking about a man who played 90 times for England and if he had n't been injured would certainly have played over 100 .
4 Choreographers who have been accepted can then form their own performance group and start rehearsing .
5 The methods of purification by flocculation and filtration that are employed will usually bring the colour down to a low level .
6 This is not like a planning appeal because only those who are invited can actually participate , although in practice anyone with anything substantial to say , for or against any aspect of the plan , is likely to be invited .
7 Disputes as to whether an admitted rule has or has not been violated will always occur and will , in any but the smallest societies , continue interminably , if there is no agency specially empowered to ascertain finally , and authoritatively , the fact of violation …
8 It provides no data upon the viability of the organism , and even bacteria that have been autoclaved will still generate a positive PCR .
9 Now , as I say , the politicians may be your bosses and what I 'm suggesting may well upset many of them .
10 A minority which believed itself to be persecuted might well stick together .
11 As I told you I think I have made observations which lead me to conclude that there are not only high but fertile lands on the verge of our intertropical Regions , and arguing from the Character of the Ranges here I should not be surprised to find in the more distant parts of the Continent , a Country vying with America in richness of Natural products , and I have very little doubts but that the discoveries to be made would amply repay the government any outlay it might make .
12 If the person taking the blood sample is asked for what purpose it is being taken and replies that it is for an HIV antibody test , a person who does not wish an HIV antibody test to be done should expressly say so , and should also ask for this refusal to be entered in their medical records .
13 The DC to be aborted must already exist and must not be in the state IN APPROVAL or APPROVED .
14 Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task .
15 New roads that would need to be provided would therefore have to come from that direction and and it itself will cut a swathe through the open countryside .
16 The criteria by which success will be judged will also have to be established at this stage .
17 What can be found will inevitably vary according to the area under study and the survival of evidence , but it may be wise to capitalise on whatever special feature the particular settlement has to offer , perhaps an old building , church or archaeological site .
18 The procedure to be followed will usually involve the parish council and the placement of public advertisements in order that any objections or representations can be made .
19 Detailed analysis of the transaction to be influenced will also help .
20 Those who wish to be appointed must somehow solicit the good opinion of the prime minister 's appointments secretary .
21 Perhaps our account of the wizardry of energy juggling involved in the tunnelling process makes it not altogether implausible that a doubling of the height to be scaled could immensely increase the difficulty of the transaction .
22 It was strange that a sexual union which left nothing to be desired should so clarify the state of her mind .
23 Second , the approach leads to non-falsifiable explanations , meaning that no evidence that can be marshalled could possibly fail to fit in with it .
24 Q.Ts. wishing to attend a course to which they are not deemed to be attached may also attend on a daily basis at £2.50 per session .
25 A respectable woman who has been ravished would hardly feel that she was vindicated by being told that her assailant must go unpunished because he believed , quite unreasonably , that she was consenting to sexual intercourse with him .
26 A further category of ‘ opposition ’ , which requires careful attention , commonly arises from the fact that the various government departments on whom copies of the order have ( by requirement under the General Orders ) been served will frequently raise sundry points of concern to them .
27 I find it strange that people with whom I have been associated should now accept that independent bankers control so much of our destiny .
28 Some criteria and methods for ‘ assessing ’ and ‘ accrediting ’ what had been learned would gradually emerge , serving to validate the teaching contract , regulate entry to the emerging ‘ discipline ’ and generally build up its identity and status .
29 However , we feel that such measures as those being mooted would only lead to further problems .
30 Even changes of objective within the period in which funds are being disbursed may still leave pressure for additional change , especially if there is a ministerial reshuffle .
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