Example sentences of "be [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 2 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 3 | If she fails at the substantive hearing , that will be because the court will then have decided that it would not be in [ J. 's ] best interest for his life to be artificially saved or prolonged . |
| 4 | While a demand for sex is not blackmail , a demand for money in return for not disclosing that the accused has indulged in such behaviour would be because the gain would be money within s.34(2) ( a ) . |
| 5 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 6 | First , that the appeal with which the Board is concerned is that brought by special leave from the decision of Barnett J. Secondly , whilst their Lordships fully understand why the Court of Appeal should have wished to state its opinion on the questions argued , any observations concerning the merits of an appeal which should not be before the court must necessarily be extra-judicial . |
| 7 | A definitive agreement that outlines exactly what kind of a subsidiary USL will be , how independent of Novell it will stay , has yet to be written but will be before the acquisition can go through . |
| 8 | It may be sufficient if it imputes a quality in something which applies to an already well-known product , an important factor being whether the public will be deceived . |
| 9 | The kind of questions that might be asked in the context are whether the proposal could have wide effects beyond the immediate locality , whether it could give rise to regional or national controversy and whether it could conflict with national policy . |
| 10 | If these new coppices are laid out with wide strips at even intervals , Free Range Egg production will give an extra crop and a profit , that is if the farmer can find his/her own retail market for the eggs . |
| 11 | What confounds that argument is if the group can inflate its value before signing with anybody , either on its musical merits , or by ‘ hyping ’ a reputation . |
| 12 | That 's if the rain will let us . |
| 13 | The reason it is funny is because a person could not be a mile high . |
| 14 | If there is a distinction between a failure to consent and a refusal of consent , it is because a refusal can take the form of a declaration of intention never to consent in the future or never to consent in some future circumstances . |
| 15 | It is because the Government would not allow local authorities to appoint a couple of gatekeepers that we face a bill probably in the region of £1.9 billion . |
| 16 | This is because the egg can only be fertilised for a short period of time following its release . |
| 17 | This is because the compound could relate to a set of different word combinations ( e.g. ‘ tennis court ’ is a singular noun but ‘ tennis courts ’ is a plural noun ) . |
| 18 | This is because the virus can easily get into your body through the sensitive linings of your arse or your dick . |
| 19 | This is because the frame will have to accommodate not only the thickness of the plain glass but also the thickness of the mirror and that of the hardboard backing . |
| 20 | The so-called " success " rate of substitution therapy such as Antabuse for alcohol , Naltrexone for heroin and minor tranquillisers for almost anything whatever , is because the prescriber may not understand the concept of the Dry Drunk Syndrome or because of the fact that minor tranquillisers and many other psychotropic drugs are cross-addictive with all mood-altering chemicals . |
| 21 | That 's because the town can boast of more entertainment to the square mile than any other resort in Britain . |
| 22 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 23 | I propose that a useful point to be considered by the doctor is whether a treatment would be clinically indicated for a private patient with unlimited personal resources . |
| 24 | ‘ The central issue in the appeal is whether a doctor can ever , in any circumstances , lawfully give contraceptive advice or treatment to a girl under the age 16 without her parents ' consent . |
| 25 | In deciding whether to begin or continue litigation , one major factor is whether a party will have to pay the costs or be able to recover them from the other party . |
| 26 | The test is whether the cost would have been incurred but for the provision of the benefit . |
| 27 | The first is whether the union will be almost exclusively monetary , with the EC central banking system being closely modelled on the narrow counter-inflationary objectives of the largely non-accountable Bundesbank , and with other economic objectives left exclusively in national hands . |
| 28 | The first is whether the barrage should be given funds , and the second is whether , if someone else 's money and ideas were involved , the development should be given permission to proceed . |
| 29 | e essentially , I mean the problem is whether the money would stand the the staffing . |
| 30 | One senior Hong Kong government official told New Scientist : ‘ One of the things we hope to find out is whether the system can be fiddled . |