Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Magnolia acuminata received more precise acknowledgment : ‘ … there are but very few plants at present here , nor is it very common in the habitable parts of America . |
2 | Of course , it may be that under certain circumstances a more autocratic relationship is appropriate . |
3 | It may be that under certain circumstances one of the alternative methods of valuation is the most appropriate . |
4 | Since the density of wood averages about one-fourteenth of that of steel it may be that about thirty times the volume of wood is used , taking the world as a whole . |
5 | Volunteers they may be but highly expert lifeboatmen they are determined to remain . ’ |
6 | It had all the facilities needed by the three Services and there were as yet few worries about security of tenure . |
7 | What is less well-known is that rather similar effects may happen with a blow on the forehead which does not penetrate . |
8 | The most important point is that rather flat-lying arrays can be generated by feasible mixing models despite the involvement of a plume endmember with fairly high Nd . |
9 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
10 | The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available . |
11 | The problem is that normally potential purchasers have to incur the expense of undertaking surveys and arranging mortgage finance , without any idea whether they will be able to afford the final selling price . |
12 | Its advantage over the Tabriz loom is that even larger carpets can be made . |
13 | But what is interesting is that even die-hard sexists have had to change their argument in defence of traditional usage . |
14 | The point being that the more detailed the categorization of the restrictions becomes , the more likely it is that qualitatively different kinds of restrictions will emerge . |
15 | The answer is that probably all shapes are capable of supporting a successful but restricted marine community . |
16 | One cost is that clearly some services are being cut in terms of how good they are . |
17 | The sad reality is that nearly seventy years after Eglantine Jebb drafted the world 's first charter of children 's rights , the charter which became the foundation for the nineteen eighty nine U N convention . |
18 | The history of continuing post-war pressure by officers for a flatted development in the East End of North Shields is a fascinating one but for our purposes here what matters is that nearly 1000 flats and maisonettes were built , again at a higher unit cost than that of the contemporary construction of traditional dwellings . |
19 | The major rule applying is that generally most predators will attack only fish smaller than themselves , although some large mouthed predators such as lionfish and large groupers are capable of swallowing prey of almost their own dimensions . |
20 | The hope is that unusually fruitful conferences such as this one , in which a course in the basics of immunology preceded seminars on the latest developments , and in which the participants in most part came from areas badly affected by the disease , will show us the way forward . |
21 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
22 | One concern with any meta-analysis is that statistically non-significant studies are less likely to be submitted for publication and hence that the results of combining published studies is biased towards a positive effect . |
23 | One is that relatively lengthy questionnaires can be used to increase the quantity or detail of information obtained . |
24 | What is certain , however , is that currently English teachers are being urged by the majority of voices in their midst to concentrate upon encouragement of their pupils ' creativity . |
25 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
26 | Another way of putting this is that under rational expectations the forecast error , , is independent of all lagged information , in this case lagged prices . |
27 | The other proposition arising is that as two atoms touch , the gravitational force will maximise and crush them out of existence , unless the long range weak gravitational forcefield is balanced by a strong short range repulsive force . |
28 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
29 | Another difficulty with the hot-spot model is that unrealistically large increases in heat flow are apparently required to explain the magnitude of uplift recorded in some regions . |
30 | Many more speakers and many more hours of speech are usually recorded than can ultimately be analysed ; a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data . |