Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In fact a series of solutions of this type can be used having different values of c and d .
2 It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married .
3 It must also be right to have proper mechanisms in place to ensure that they get value for money .
4 Of course it would be absurd to blame contemporary Germans for what the Nazis did ; but , because this judgment lies at the end of a different and independent mode of argument , it is not absurd to suppose that contemporary Germans have special responsibilities because the Nazis were Germans too .
5 It would be absurd to make high claims for the international morality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
6 If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them .
7 The experiments show that this seems to depend both on temperature and pressure , but other experiments show different results ; when these matters are fully resolved then it may be possible to design experimental circumstances where optimal fusion occurs .
8 ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford .
9 If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority .
10 Furthermore , by isolating amplification products contained on partially overlapping restriction fragments , it may be possible to use repeated rounds of IRS-PCR amplification to march along contiguous restriction fragments .
11 As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms .
12 As you indicated , it ought to be possible to let unsold units in the normal way , and even to let owners ' units on an agency basis .
13 ‘ Tuning ’ of the database software may also be possible using manufacturer-supplied options to achieve results more in line with those attainable by programs written in-house .
14 It should be possible to draw international comparisons .
15 Using balanced constant and current price accounts it will be possible to derive differential prices for sales of commodities to intermediate and various types of final demand which satisfy accounting relationships .
16 If so , it may be possible to include specific provisions to prevent them recurring .
17 It may not , therefore , be possible to give direct answers to many of the questions which parents may ask .
18 But significantly , table 7.1 also shows that it does not seem to be possible to elicit sharp judgements of acceptability which can be used to divide grammatical from ungrammatical sentences .
19 If parallel market rates were lower and instrument prices higher , then it would be possible to sell parallel instruments , at a high price , and with the proceeds buy a similar instrument with regard to risk and maturity in the discount market at a low price , and therefore higher yield .
20 Investigation of this ‘ crosstalk ’ between receptors may prove difficult in HGT-1 cells because muscarinic cholinergic and gastric recetor have not been detected ( McKenna et al , unpublished data ) , although it may be possible to induce cholinergic receptors by culturing the cells with butyrate ( J P Bali , personal communication ) .
21 With infinite computing power , it would therefore be possible to create simulated copies of every person , cockroach , mushroom and Martian that had ever lived .
22 It may be possible to target specific phonemes to assess articulation but the child 's performance is likely to be somewhat better than during spontaneous speech .
23 So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals .
24 A special draft letter is available from NDO to approach the administrators of specialised classes and where no money is available at source it may be possible to get recreational classes to sponsor a particular home or handicapped class .
25 If these figures turned out to be right , it would be possible to compensate western farmers for their losses in full , greatly improve Eastern Europe 's hard-currency earnings , and still leave EC taxpayers and consumers £1.5 billion a year better off .
26 It may be possible to identify fixed relationships and those which are optional or mandatory .
27 While these techniques are not sufficiently developed to use in other than a research capacity at present , they offer the hope that , in future , it will be possible to identify asymptomatic individuals by testing their stools against a panel of DNA probes .
28 One day , the team hopes , it will be possible to build tiny circuits atom by atom .
29 It is hoped that it may be possible to forecast likely trends over the next five years and their consequences for the labour market .
30 Would it be possible to re-use old programs written for conventional machines , or would users have to start from scratch and throw away their existing investment in software ?
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