Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cultures the mourning period is very clearly established with a beginning phase where the bereaved will be looked after by their families ; and there is an equally important ending phase when the person is expected to stop grieving and get on with living . |
| 2 | However , neither would be acceptable as JC , where the following would be expected : Him did give you what you a look for ? |
| 3 | Obviously , a bank will expect to receive loan interest plus , perhaps , a royalty on subsequent oil output for the additional risk incurred , although the latter might be reduced by obtaining agreements which contractually guarantee a market for resultant oil output . |
| 4 | Also straights can vary tremendously in quality although the same can be said of some compound feeds by the way ! |
| 5 | Painting , architecture ( as its most pure ) , and literature have a definitive form or text , and although the same can be said of drama whilst it remains on the printed page , its conversion to the performing medium allows a great deal more flexibility than music ever can . |
| 6 | Just as the innocent should not be punished , so the guilty should be made to pay . |
| 7 | They 're now saying four hundred jobs will go but less than a hundred will be made redundant . |
| 8 | Under the reform individual private landholding was restricted to an area of 3 chó0 for most of the country ; of this area no more than a third could be rented out . |
| 9 | Not only are such predicates eliminable , it might be argued , but conceivably it might be possible to devise a method of paraphrase which would enable us to dispense with quantifiers as well ; and if the latter can be achieved , then the myth of the " logical independence " of existential propositions will have been exploded once and for all . |
| 10 | ‘ The Finnish bourgeoisie , like the Ukrainian , were unanimous in preferring the violent rule of Germany to national freedom , if the latter should be bound up with Bolshevism . ’ |
| 11 | The subject has , inevitably , been approached from different theoretical perspectives , some of which have been more concerned to improve administrative performance and technical assistance than understand bureaucratic power ( as if the two can be separated ) . |
| 12 | Either a point q in the b -boundary may be a regular boundary point if the space-time can be embedded in a larger space-time such that the Riemann tensor is C r and q is an interior point in , or it may be a singular boundary point if the space-time is not extendable through q in a way . |
| 13 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 14 | The materials may well have improved , but only time will tell if the same can be said of workmanship and design . |
| 15 | It concentrated upon Clinton 's advocacy of a " new covenant " between the government and the governed whereby the former would provide greater resources while the latter would be expected to shoulder greater responsibilities . |
| 16 | The former is the only feasible method where the farm stock is primarily sheep while the latter can be used where cattle and sheep are both present in reasonable proportions . |
| 17 | The former damage will be viewed as the result of ‘ destructive hooliganism ’ and dealt with accordingly , whilst the latter will be seen as arising from an excess of good-natured high spirits and over-enthusiasm . |
| 18 | At one time the question was much debated whether meta-ethics can or ought to be neutral as between ethical theories , or indeed whether the two should be distinguished at all . |
| 19 | As Derek Fraser points out , ‘ whether the pavement was drained and swept , whether the poor should be incarcerated in workhouses , whether Dissenters should pay church rates depended upon the exercise of power … . |
| 20 | Whether the same can be said for sessions with the shrink , I 'm not sure . |
| 21 | Tagliacozzo found that catalogue searchers were , " inclined to use proper names rather than other types of entry , even when the latter may be considered a better choice . " |
| 22 | However , just as the latter might be thought to have an intuitive grasp of affairs automotive which ought to be taken into account by anyone prone to theorising about the motor car , so it is conceivable that the way theoretical physicists regard the objects of their study might be a factor to be taken into account in assessing their significance . |
| 23 | Just as the dead might be said to take readily to flight , so the living found their spirits lifted . |
| 24 | Carrying hot metal , or tripping blindfold between red-hot plough shares , or plunging the arm in boiling water were the usual tests , though the accused might be flung into a pond to see whether he sank or not , or forced to eat an ounce of bread or cheese to see if it stuck in the gullet ! |
| 25 | From a British perspective this seems little to ask for , though the Chinese might be justified in wondering why such democratic principles were not applied long ago . |
| 26 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 27 | This often creates a confusion in estimating the number of school age mothers , as a sixteen-year-old can be counted both in the school age group and in the sixteen to nineteen-year-old group , depending on whether her birthday falls before or after the end of the school year . |
| 28 | Integrated circuit IC1 is a 7555 chip , which is a CMOS form of the familiar 555 timer ( though a 555 may be used at the cost of an increased current consumption ) , operating as a clock generator . |
| 29 | Is it love which drives one human to reduce another to a state of highly charged expectation and desire when no more can be done , or is it lust ? |