Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 2 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 3 | To secure your rights , be prepared to respond rapidly when problems occur . |
| 4 | Not all buyers conform to this theoretical plan , however , and the salesperson should be prepared to close even if his planned sales presentation is incomplete . |
| 5 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 6 | No one of the three communities A , B and C would be willing to pay more than £300 to join in a group scheme , since they could go it alone for £300 . |
| 7 | Similarly , no two communities would be willing to pay more than £400 , since they could obtain a scheme for themselves for that amount . |
| 8 | In addition , companies would not be required to join trade associations but would be free to do so if they wished ; members would be bonded to the management of the fund for a prescribed percentage of turnover on non-ATOL packages ; and they would also be able to bond at lower levels than those bonded to other bodies . |
| 9 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 10 | ‘ In any case it would be interesting to find out where the money 's coming from , ’ said Owen . |
| 11 | Neither side should be afraid to instruct more than one doctor when the plaintiff suffers multiple injuries giving rise to a variety of symptoms . |
| 12 | A database for a short exercise on the scientific properties of WATER may , for example , be easier to index initially than one for a project on the lives and achievements of famous people , where there may be greater scope for individual interpretation . |
| 13 | You may not need to yet but it 'll be easier to plan now than when you 're under pressure . |
| 14 | I think that may be easier to do rather than do them in situ , you know ? |
| 15 | The seeds should come up in neat , well-spaced rows , and be easier to prick out than thickly sown clusters . |
| 16 | It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through . |
| 17 | ‘ Because of the status of the hall as a listed building , and the need for close consultation between all parties concerned , it would be inadvisable to involve more than one architect on such a sensitive project , ’ he said in a report to members . |
| 18 | Not that there 'll be much left over once I 've settled the mortgage . |
| 19 | Further , it may even be appropriate to debate again whether consent is appropriate as the governing concept in the medical-legal context . |
| 20 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 21 | with an enumerative classification such as LC , it may be impossible to generalize about when it is worth offering adjacent codes , and |
| 22 | Sensing how this might have harmful repercussions , Halloran and co-workers asked : ‘ How long will peaceful demonstrators seeking a new mode of expression be content to demonstrate peacefully when whatever they do is likely to get the negative treatment ? ’ ( ibid.:317 ) . |
| 23 | Registering 30.80 , Davy McClenaghan 's black bitch was always holding the staying-on Mineola Gift and she 'll be hard to beat again if beating Express to the corner . |
| 24 | That is significant given the group will be lucky to make more than £135m pre-tax in the year . |
| 25 | Yeah , it really wants to be all written down so you can read it off do n't it ? |
| 26 | and perhaps it 'd be reasonable to wait longer before we say you 're fit for work . |
| 27 | Well you always thought about going to the Beefeater a bu really I suppose it might be better to go today than tomorrow . |
| 28 | This will be awkward to achieve ergonomically because it is more easy for a person to hammer nails straight in . |
| 29 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 30 | At some of the sessions teachers protested that the methods used when being observed were a product of the artificiality of the situation and that in some cases pupils seemed to be reluctant to participate orally when advisers were present . |