Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [vb pp] that such " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 2 | It may be alleged that such Unionist arguments were specious , that their concern was solely to exploit a winning issue at any cost to the nation , but this would be to misunderstand the Unionists themselves . |
| 3 | Given the ambiguity of the evidence from West Stow as to whether decorated funerary pottery was also used domestically , it should be noted that such grass-tempered vessels have open-mouthed , simple , rounded forms , whereas the ‘ funerary ’ wares are larger and have more restricted mouths . |
| 4 | It should be noted that such allowances are not available on the land element of any commercial building . |
| 5 | ( It should be said that such views often gained the support of feminists , particularly outraged by the forcible use of the speculum under the Contagious Diseases Acts . ) |
| 6 | It should be explained that such efficiency is practically impossible nowadays , for many reasons , chiefly because of what is termed as ‘ lines of demarcation ’ . |
| 7 | However , it should be ensured that such considerations do not preclude the drafting of the document in as commercial a manner as possible , taking into account at all times the purpose of its production . |
| 8 | BELOW Building on such skeletons , artists can come up with impressions of what dinosaurs like Triceratops looked like , but it should be stressed that such images are no more than guesses . |
| 9 | But it should be remembered that such hesitation was an endemic feature of British politics during the inter-war years and was even exhibited in the 1930s when fascism , that other major problem of the age , threatened to consume Britain and Europe . |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that such claims for compensation would involve an extension of Francovich , both because that was a case of complete non-implementation , not just defective implementation , and because the UK government could argue that its implementation of the Directive in 1981 was done on the basis of its good faith understanding of what European law then required and so there was no element of fault in its decision-making at that time . |
| 11 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 12 | Of course architects are human and it must be seen that such an approach is liable to make the architect a pariah figure , unbeloved of the society in which his creations are set . |
| 13 | It must be understood that such a programme of withdrawal requires a high level of support , from the counsellor , the counsellee 's family and friends , and from any group to which the counsellee is attached . |
| 14 | As for the requirement for the owners , charterers , managers and operators of the vessel and , in the case of a company , the shareholders and directors , to be resident and domiciled in the member state in which the vessel is to be registered , it must be held that such a requirement , which is not justified by the rights and obligations created by the grant of a national flag to a vessel , results in discrimination on grounds of nationality . |
| 15 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 16 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 17 | It might be thought that such policies spring from a desire , on the one hand , to ensure the free flowering of individual enterprise , and on the other , to guard against the tyrannies of " big business " . |
| 18 | It might be thought that such social constraints would be likely , simply by being social , to be culturally variable , and thus of no great interest to a general ( or universal ) pragmatic theory . |
| 19 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 20 | It appeared to the Commission that , aside from certain cases involving fantasy or malice , a request for service forwarded abroad met a precise need , and it could be presumed that such a request was in compliance with the procedural law of the forum , since this step would otherwise make no sense . |
| 21 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 22 | It could be argued that such a strategy was in any case unnecessary . |
| 23 | One important difference between surrogacy and homosexuality is of course that surrogacy results in the birth of a child ; and it could be argued that such a child might be socially disadvantaged if the facts became known . |
| 24 | But this is the general position and in vehicles like Minis it could be argued that such a view can be obtained when only the wiper in front of the driver works , therefore each vehicle must be dealt with separately . |
| 25 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 26 | It could be argued that such questions are of little value as respondents may be unwilling to label themselves as being in poor health . |
| 27 | The release of the three reinforced the prospect of others using the political defence against extradition , seeking to persuade Irish courts not to extradite those charged with terrorist offences if it could be proved that such offences had been committed in the cause of the reunification of Ireland . |
| 28 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 29 | It will be seen that such a definition excludes the production of the means of destruction ( armaments ) . |
| 30 | It can be argued that such tests are gender biased , both in their questions , which do not draw on social , female-oriented spheres of knowledge , and in their multiple choice format , which , by demanding a single answer from a set of often mutually exclusive possibilities , does not allow for women 's interactive , socially responsive way of solving problems . |