Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killing the fatted calf is another Biblical phrase which ought to act as an antidote to killjoy Christmases . |
| 2 | The last category of official building which ought to exist in many defended sites is the residence of the administrative officer , and there are a number of alternatives . |
| 3 | They were to make perambulations , distinguishing between those districts which ought to remain in the forest , and those which ought to be put out . |
| 4 | He might also have added the examples he cited earlier of the ‘ material content of the cultural tradition ’ , such as cave-paintings and hand-axes , since these also serve as repositories of meaning which may persist over time . |
| 5 | If you 've got a bigger surgery which may break into that third week |
| 6 | Severe bruising to the ribs can not be satisfactorily dressed or protected within the rules of competition , but female competitors can use breast shields which may extend over the injury site . |
| 7 | Further , the need for many victims to bring a civil action against the perpetrator requires continuing contact with the offender which may extend for years in a protracted case . |
| 8 | Small invertebrates such as polycheate worms , shrimps and other crustaceans are also fair game for most invertebrate feeders and some of the more cosmopolitan species such as boxfish , puffers and triggerfish have an appetite which may extend to shelled molluscs , fanworms and even spiny sea urchins . |
| 9 | In my view the dock company is not entitled to any statutory immunities which may attach to the port authority . |
| 10 | It is clear that under a system of well-conceived planning the resolution of competing claims and the allocation of land for the various requirements must proceed on the basis of selecting the most suitable land for the particular purpose , irrespective of the existing values which may attach to the individual parcels of land . |
| 11 | Oral explanations and discussion may convey a meaning and a depth lacking in written explanation which may tend to be accepted at an uncritical and somewhat superficial level . |
| 12 | Such reversals , which may last for a period of several years , have been observed on the east coast . |
| 13 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 14 | Expectant mothers , for instance , treated in isolation by doctors and hospitals , and without their own female relatives around to help them , flock to childbirth classes where often strong social contacts are made , which may last throughout the period of coping with a young baby and longer . |
| 15 | The word " plants " includes mosses and algae which may grow after a while in damp habitats ( e.g. 2,10 and 12 ) . |
| 16 | Christ 's feet in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service , are ‘ unoffending ’ which may mean without sin , but might also mean just harmless or inoffensive , devoid of power in a way paralleling Origen 's sexual impotence ; the apparent presence of God need not guarantee Christ 's power . |
| 17 | It must further be stated that the restrictive effects on trade which may stem from such rules do not seem disproportionate to the end pursued . |
| 18 | It will allow detailed medical checks on patients without surgery or potential radiation side-effects which may stem from conventional x-rays and scans . |
| 19 | As an analogy , one does not consider the notion of fatherhood a vague one , within the semantic domain of family relationships , simply because there is an immense number of types of relationship which may exist between actual fathers and their offspring ; to do so would be a category error . |
| 20 | Nor do I consider that any in-house tariff which may exist in the Home Office need be disclosed . |
| 21 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 22 | The Car Safety Centres are managed by independent Motor Engineers and Assessors and the service is offered to members with the sole intention of identifying possible defects which may exist in cars , unknown to members , and thus preventing possible accidents and safeguarding members and their families from injury . |
| 23 | The latest sub-atomic theories , for example , say that we are all made up of infinitely thin pieces of string which may exist in ten dimensions . |
| 24 | Discussing the implementation of partnership in validation , the Sociological Studies Board , for example , heard concern about the ‘ apparent lack of sympathy which may exist in institutions ’ internal monitoring and validation procedures to academic developments in sociology , in that the views expressed may be harsher and more inhibiting than those expressed by the Board' . |
| 25 | The research examines the available literature on the processes of accountability which may exist within such arrangements . |
| 26 | A memo may carry a reference which may consist of the sender 's and typist 's initials and/or a reference number |
| 27 | Instead the music is usually led by a music group or band which may consist of almost any combination of instruments , together with a piano or other kind of keyboard and one or more singers . |
| 28 | What remains is a possible non-rational resolution of the question , which may consist in one side to a dispute stimulating a change of attitude in the other by a moving use of emotive language , or one aspect of one s personality achieving dominance over another . |
| 29 | There is no securely dated early work , but there are two signed memorial tablets in Kent which may date from this period ( Mersham and Hythe ) . |
| 30 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |