Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the scale , rules would define precisely the shots that may be made for specified circumstances , confining all shots to the head and shoulders of the Member who has the floor , for example ( this solution has been adopted by the Canadian House of Commons ) . |
| 2 | These are techniques that may be used for longer term forecasting , perhaps for periods of two or more years ahead . |
| 3 | Between 1945 and 1983 , all children ascertained as ‘ handicapped ’ were classified into ten statutory categories of handicap.7 By the 1970s there was widespread dissatisfaction with this system as a means to guide the form of education that should be provided for categorised children . |
| 4 | In addition , derelict land was , until recently , being created faster than it could be reclaimed , Although there are areas of derelict land that should be retained for some of the reasons given by John Gordon , and research sponsored by the Department of the Environment has sought to identify these for appropriate use , there are still far larger areas that , due to the many constraints of the substrates that need to be overcome , are eyesores , health hazards and potential lethal risks to the communities that have to live surrounded by them . |
| 5 | Variance component analysis was used to estimate the number of crypts and the number of biopsy samples that must be evaluated for each method to classify an individual correctly . |
| 6 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 7 | Above them , on a grassy hill , loomed the Monument — an imitation ruined temple that could be seen for several kilometres around . |
| 8 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 9 | Good-quality gritstone that could be dressed for architectural purposes was found deep beneath the fell . |
| 10 | She was looking , not at a twenty-one-year-old girl , a young and beautiful twenty-one-year-old girl , but a twenty-one-year-old girl that could be taken for thirty , and who was drinking a mixture of brandy and port to ease the strain of her life . |
| 11 | The only thing I like about him is the feeling that there is something there that could be used for good if it could be got at . |
| 12 | The amount of luck that would be required for this feat is unthinkable , and has been used as a telling mind-boggler by Isaac Asimov and others . |
| 13 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 14 | The instruments that would be needed for communicating echo pictures are no more sophisticated than the instruments that both bats and dolphins already have for echolocating in the first place . |
| 15 | As yet , no definitive decision has been made as to the microkernel that will be used for new versions of OS/2 , though developers are known to be working with the Carnegie-Mellon University 's Mach 3 microkernel ; in addition , there is the possibility that IBM might use the NT kernel — ‘ we could use the NT microkernel if we wanted to ’ , it said . |
| 16 | Some of the land that will be needed for new houses and businesses is already available , but a lot of new land is also required . |
| 17 | In a recent tasting , long-life was voted the clear winner , suggesting that is moving beyond its traditional ‘ stand by ’ position and is on its way to becoming a product that will be chosen for everyday use . |
| 18 | There are always two sets of reasons that can be given for psychical events , one that is phrased in terms of the culture 's Weltanschuung , and the other which the psychoanalytic observer can bring in terms of the unconscious feelings underlying the system . |
| 19 | All Stick models now come with new , mega-adjustable hardware : a new bridge/tailpiece unit , a patented truss rod , a height-adjustable nut , a pickup that can be tweaked for individual string volume and a four-way strap system for altering the angle of dangle . |
| 20 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 21 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 22 | The regulations , which are mainly concerned with the security of explosives , will make changes to the types and quantities of explosives that can be kept for private use without the need for a licence or registration . |
| 23 | The simplest dynamical question that can be posed for curved space–time is to ask what the motion of a test body is in free fall , i.e. under gravitational forces alone . |
| 24 | ‘ But as you so clearly realize , scientists have many times created tools that can be used for good , but which have then been perverted to evil use . |
| 25 | The purpose of evaluation is to collect and analyse information that can be used for rational decision making . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ There are so many products that can be used for intoxicating purposes it would be impossible to lock them all away . |
| 27 | It is a method of behaviour control that can be used for most forms of behaviour management except where the children are being destructive or likely to hurt someone else or themselves . |
| 28 | The first step is therefore to decide exactly how much you want to spend and then to look at the range of items that can be purchased for this figure or less . |
| 29 | Import controls Controls over imports from abroad , notably the supply of raw materials to companies from a foreign parent company , or the prices that can be paid for such imports . |
| 30 | This may restrict the set of operations that can be provided for some or all of the data.types ; it also makes it easy for the programmer to use an instruction on an operand with the wrong format , although assemble-time checks may help to reduce the number of errors of this sort . |