Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 2 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 3 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 4 | It is primarily organised along the lines of the current OPCS scheme , but it would also be possible to use it for coding to KOS or CODOT . |
| 5 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 6 | And if this 6Mb does exist , would it be possible to recover it for general use ? |
| 7 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 8 | You said that it might be possible to get it for £50 . |
| 9 | However since the Convention does not specify that the acceptance be directed towards the treaty parties it might not be possible to regard it as a collateral agreement . |
| 10 | However , it is hoped that by bringing in additional path material it will be possible to reopen it by Easter , with access being limited to certain ‘ clean ’ areas . |
| 11 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 12 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 13 | It should be possible to convert it to other BASICs without too much difficulty . |
| 14 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
| 15 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 16 | Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture . |
| 17 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 18 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 19 | The true citizen must be ‘ able to understand the interests of the community , must be able to subordinate his own will to the general will , must feel his responsibility to the community and be prepared to serve it by voting , working , or ( if need be ) fighting ’ . |
| 20 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 21 | If your interception angle is over 30° , then be prepared to reduce it to 30° ( plus drift ) , when the QDMs indicate that you are 10° to 15° off track . |
| 22 | I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 per cent . |
| 23 | He said he would be prepared to place it for me , and he was as good as his word . |
| 24 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 25 | Has anyone a friendly grocer or newsagent etc. who would be willing to display it in their window ? |
| 26 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 27 | It may be easier to implement it in a raster environment , but much would depend on the size of the rasters chosen to represent the areas . |
| 28 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 29 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 30 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |