Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expression " by post " includes ordinary post , though it may be preferable to use first class . |
| 2 | ‘ We now believe it would be preferable to take this project forward as a joint venture with the private sector . ’ |
| 3 | It would be preferable to perform this process once only . |
| 4 | No one no one could say that they could endure noise , and it must be awful to live next door to it . |
| 5 | Studies were put in hand to see whether it would be practicable to deploy Blue Streak in hardened underground silos in the Welsh mountains or the Scottish highlands , but the cost was found to be so great that it would have beggared the Defence Vote , making the restoration of more efficient conventional forces impossible . |
| 6 | The main study will focus on four particular courts , but the researchers will be grateful to receive any comments from readers of the Review on experiences with , or impressions of , the system of criminal legal aid . |
| 7 | In fact a series of solutions of this type can be used having different values of c and d . |
| 8 | ‘ I should be loth to create more difficulties , but I can not help following a line of thought to its logical end . |
| 9 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But given the current high levels of unemployment Clinton must be right to take positive action . |
| 12 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 13 | It must also be right to have proper mechanisms in place to ensure that they get value for money . |
| 14 | Now , while it would be rash to claim that cochliomyasis ( infestation with the ‘ screw worm fly ’ ) was never sexually transmitted , like most of the other arthropod-linked disorders , such an occurrence must be exceedingly uncommon . |
| 15 | Are you going to be sorry to see that boat go ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It would be absurd to make high claims for the international morality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ’ 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 . |
| 21 | Costs could be reduced further by screening more patients per unit time , and we estimate that it should be possible to screen 2500 patients a year once the screening programme is established ( our costs are based on screening 1800 per year ) . |
| 22 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 23 | Within the information now available on these same people in adulthood , it will be possible to shed some light on the causes of truancy . |
| 24 | Presumably you also believed that it might be possible to negotiate some form of multilateral disarmament in the region ? |
| 25 | Moreover , if the approximate position on a chromosome is also known , it may be possible to split that region if an appropriate unequal reciprocal translocation is available . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some forms ( Turrilites ) adopted the helical spire , and were it not for the obligatory suture lines it might be possible to mistake these species for large gastropods . |
| 28 | Alternatively , it should be possible to disrupt specific DH sites by homologous recombination , as has been recently described for the β-globin LCR ( 69 ) . |
| 29 | It will then be possible to move any column as a block of text . |
| 30 | However , it may be possible to use this dependence to form the basis for short-term predictions of future behaviour . |