Example sentences of "be [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 2 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 3 | How minor would it have been if the poor man had died ? |
| 4 | the structural reform will create 3,650,000 losers ( i.e. their income will be lower than it would have been if the old system had continued and been up-rated in the normal way , and there had been no transitional protection ) compared with 3,190,000 gainers ( the Government claims that 5,000,070 gained ) while 1,680,000 people remain unaffected . |
| 5 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 6 | Alternatively it may have been because a rising number of night visits , increasingly performed before 1990 by deputies , increases health service expenditure as the cost of deputies is eventually reimbursed in the expense element of general practitioner remuneration . |
| 7 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 8 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 9 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 10 | An example of the latter would be if a voiced sound that you want to practise becomes voiceless adjacent to a voiceless sound forming part of the frame . |
| 11 | how serious the consequences would be if a bad decision were made ; and |
| 12 | I know that he will lose no opportunity to make it clear to employers and workers in that industry how devastating the prospects for their jobs would be if the Labour party 's proposals were put into effect . |
| 13 | you work out how much your tax would be if the non-exempt part of your payment was included in your income . |
| 14 | Oh , but how much more interesting it will be if the other lot are given a go for the first time in 13 years . |
| 15 | Some have seen this as illogical , and so it would be if the only reason for the rule that the release of one joint contractor releases the other is that there is only one obligation . |
| 16 | One reason for this would be if the original script contained spelling errors , so the ‘ correct ’ word could not be found as a legal English word . |
| 17 | What a disaster it would be if the local bus company decided not to run bus services after about 3 o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 18 | The main thrust of the campaign , designed by the United Kingdom-based advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi , was to reveal what the government believed the scenario would be if the white electorate voted " no " . |
| 19 | The best thing that could happen for Mr. Lennon and his friends would be if the military wing of Sinn Fein stopped trying to blow up Belfast . |
| 20 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 21 | The market research group reckons it wo n't be until the second half of next year that Unix will achieve the degree of functionality needed to match proprietary systems as viable , enterprise-wide server platform , ESP . |
| 22 | In the confined environment of pre-school life the infant may have appeared to be progressing normally , and it may not be until an objective screening test is given that the sight problem is recognised . |
| 23 | Our failure to find a difference between cholecystectomy and gall stone subjects could , in theory , be because a high proportion of the second group having a non-functioning gall bladder as , from the physiological standpoint , a non-functional gall bladder is equivalent to cholecystectomy . |
| 24 | This may be because no formal teaching sessions took place , and no specific assessment of skills occurred . |
| 25 | This might be because the latter category of temporary worker is less subject to union control than the former and might thus be seen by unions as a greater " threat " whose use is to be resisted . |
| 26 | Would that be because the Communist Party did n't want the rich peasant to think they 'd be s they were being singled out ? |
| 27 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 28 | The fact that Gardner et al found a dose-response relation between fathers ' preconceptual external exposure to penetrating ionising radiation and childhood leukaemia and we did not could be because the cumulative dose was a marker of exposure to some hazardous substance or substances at Sellafield but not elsewhere . |
| 29 | This may be because these goals have changed , but it may equally be because the social world for which the original policies were designed has changed . |
| 30 | The issue will be whether the new government will have the courage to face the problems and introduce the harsh measures which will perhaps be required , at the price , it may be , of its own popularity . |