Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a couple of erm , really going to be specific to do essay writing , but I need to get in the subjects in . |
| 2 | Secretary David Ryder said : ‘ We would be sorry to leave Acklam Park , because traditionally it 's been a well-supported venue in the Northern part of the county . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , it may be possible to design hormone replacement that retains the ability to control menopausal symptoms while protecting against breast cancer . |
| 4 | It would then be possible to use computer mapping procedures ( Chapter 4 ) to display the results of these computations either in the form of hard-copy output or as a picture on a graphics terminal . |
| 5 | It may be possible to arrange respite care in the person 's own home , or in a residential care or nursing home or hospital . |
| 6 | For this purpose it must be possible to optimise ppe adaptation to user morphology by all appropriate means . ’ |
| 7 | These privileges will now be subject to negotiation with the new tenant , so it will not be possible to include Barrington Court gardens in next year 's Handbook . |
| 8 | The team 's findings suggested that it may be possible to immobilise uranium contamination by the introduction of microbes into ground water or aquatic sediments . |
| 9 | Perhaps I may turn briefly to the higher rates , which may be in the minds of some , and ask whether it would be possible to picket Park lane , to ask those attending this evening 's £500 per head dinner whether they are paying more tax this year at the lower rate , or whether they paid more tax in 1979 at Labour 's higher rates ? |
| 10 | Four officers had pay stopped , and London 's chief fire officer said it should be possible to create group spirit without ‘ the denigration and ridicule of individuals . ’ |
| 11 | It might be possible to relocate government research establishments and to target high-technology , public-sector purchasing to create more demand for innovations in older regions , for example . |
| 12 | Thus it should be possible to measure growth rate by this method . |
| 13 | Its stretchability should be low to assist hook penetration when striking over the great distance , but a certain amount of stretch is needed as a safety margin to assist the cushioning effect of the rod . |
| 14 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 15 | The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds . |
| 16 | The main reason why the long-run Phillips curve may have a negative slope is that workers may continue to suffer from money illusion in the long-run and so be prepared to accept money wage increases which fall short of the actual inflation rate . |
| 17 | Keynes himself pointed out in the General Theory that workers who would nor be prepared to accept money wage cuts may be prepared to accept real wage reductions caused by price inflation . |
| 18 | Manufacturers may be prepared to offer product support in the form of a warranty or repair or replacement service . |
| 19 | The EC Commission is , therefore , less likely to be willing to leave Article 86-type competition cases to the UK competition authorities , and disputes over jurisdiction are , therefore , more likely . |
| 20 | It is reasonable to suppose that the ‘ leading ’ industries will be willing to concede money wage increases to their workers equal to the rate of productivity growth : this will not in itself be inflationary as the average price level in these industries can be held constant . |
| 21 | For bureaucrats this revived pre-war preferences , for the US Occupation this matched their cold war mood and for employers this delivered a labour movement which would be willing to accept enterprise bargaining . |
| 22 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 23 | ‘ Following Lord Keith 's 1983 review , the Government concluded that it would be wrong to give Customs discretion over the level of VAT penalties , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In an article in Corriere della Sera , an Italian newspaper , Mr Monti praised Mr Fazio 's personal qualities , but pointed out that in 1984 Mr Fazio believed the central bank would be wrong to resist government pressure to finance its deficit . |
| 25 | It should be easy to spray polyoxyethylene smoke into local snowstorms , or to dust the surface of a ski slope with it by standard aerial crop spraying methods . |
| 26 | IPSWICH team boss Mick McGiven is hoping that Clive Baker will be fit to face Manchester City tomorrow and avert a possible goalkeeping crisis . |
| 27 | Would I be fit to cover World War Three for the Daily Post if it broke out right now ? ’ |
| 28 | Information concerning or identifying another pupil should not be disclosed , and information , the disclosure of which might cause serious harm to the mental or physical health or emotional condition of the pupil or anyone else , or which indicates that the pupil has or may be likely to suffer child abuse , should not be disclosed . |
| 29 | Being committed to pray for someone is perhaps the greatest commitment we could make and as such we as a church need to be faithful in this , that is why it would be good to get prayer support groups together . |
| 30 | Flory and Fox suggested that as the viscosity of a polymer solution will depend on the volume occupied by the polymer chain , it should be feasible to relate coil size and [ η ] . |