Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This locks the bricks into a solid mass that can be walked on as soon as it 's finished , providing a surface over which you can barrow more bricks . |
| 2 | If the firm has to reinvest some of its earnings to survive , then those retained earnings are not true economic income that could be consumed by the shareholder without reducing the share 's consumption-generating power in the future . |
| 3 | The political damage that may be done to governments by industrial conflict may be illustrated by the fall of the Heath government in the course of the 1973–4 British miners ' strike . |
| 4 | He had not behaved with courage so far , and some British officials considered that he was a weak card that should be played no longer . |
| 5 | However , this mill differs from the simple prototype in having a brickbuilt outshot against its south-east elevation which was constructed to house an auxiliary steam-engine that would be brought into use during periods of drought . |
| 6 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 7 | The worst possible condition that can be envisaged is one in which there is an expert in the plant aiming to do the maximum possible damage and aware of the indications of his actions which are transmitted to the operator — this is not quite science-fiction , it could happen as a form of sabotage , . |
| 8 | There is no simple pattern or model of social change that can be applied to all villages , and there is no single continuum on which all rural communities can be placed ( see chapter 1 above ) . |
| 9 | Sweet 100 is an old favourite that can be grown indoors and out |
| 10 | The next part aims to place this within an organised framework that can be delivered to families . |
| 11 | The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies . |
| 12 | and added that the proportion of absorbed light that can be re-emitted as fluorescence is about 3% . |
| 13 | I would be willing to pay for any books or copies or , if anyone has an old machine that could be used for spares , I am desperate for these bits . |
| 14 | To their credit , both sides managed to overcome the elements and produced an exciting cup-tie that will be continued on the wider spaces of Woolmer Hill . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose it must also have a public telephone that can be used in private and a post office that will send out mail ? |
| 16 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 17 | Still , it is sometimes possible to infer alterations over time , and one direct conclusion that can be drawn is that part , at least , of landlords ' rationale was economic : within a situation affected by such non-economic factors as pious donations , landlords organised estates and renders to maximise resources . |
| 18 | These fag-ends did not augur well for any public announcement that might be made . |
| 19 | A key question concerns the types of social contact that may be associated with a high risk of transmission of P cepacia . |
| 20 | But this was different — a public event that would be attended by all the island big-wigs . |
| 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 DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 23 | The pressures of coping with the Local Management of Schools , the introduction of the National Curriculum and the resulting assessment made ‘ Quality ’ an interesting concept that could be debated , or conveniently forgotton , at some future date . |
| 24 | It 's a public service that must be kept going . |
| 25 | With new forms of planning restriction limiting the amount of suburban extension that could be tacked on to existing built-up areas , housing developers increasingly looked to the surrounding rings of smaller settlements lying within commuting distance of city centres . |
| 26 | But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne . |
| 27 | Suppose no two of the processes unc can communicate on the same global channel ( even internally ) , that the list unc contains each free variable that can be input or assigned to by one Pi and used ( in any way ) in another , and that no unc has a free occurrence of any of the channels . |
| 28 | The child needs the opportunity to find out what is an acceptable demand that might be met . |
| 29 | The research aims to find out whether there is a specifically Scottish corporatism that can be distinguished from that found at the UK level . |
| 30 | Imagine the different voice that might be used in : telling a bedtime story to a sleepy six-year-old ; chatting with a friend in a quiet sitting-room ; giving a speech at a regimental dinner ; dealing with a group of bouncing , shouting , enthusiastic teenagers in a bare hall . |