Example sentences of "which [modal v] [be] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary reports suggest strongly that Corvan 's performance style was dramatic , intimate , high in spontaneity and very dependent on audience rapport — as against the more fixed , formalized renderings of the tunes which would be typical of performances in the bourgeois drawing-room or the ballad concert . |
| 2 | The policy of gender neutrality is further pursued in relation to the proposed offence of procuring an act of gross indecency by threat which would be capable of commission by and against males as well as females . |
| 3 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 4 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking , the isotope selection effect observed by the San Diego chemists is not the only one which can be independent of mass . |