Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers . |
| 2 | It 's excellent for the size of car , conveniently shaped and the back seat splits or can be removed entirely . |
| 3 | Information skills classes ( run by the librarian ) can include the use of databases as part of normal search procedures and the creation of small specialist databases can be part of the course or can be made in advance for specific topics . |
| 4 | These beds can be used to produce salad crops and fresh herbs or can be used as nursery beds for self-raised perennials and shrubs until they 're sufficiently well-established to be planted out . |
| 5 | The evening sun was later identified with Atum or might be shown as a ram , thus linked to Khnum , the creator god of Elephantine , or to the Ram of Mendes , called the Ba or soul of Osiris . |
| 6 | Some spotlights have a magnetic backplate so that they can be attached to any surface and pointed in any direction or can be set to swivel around inside a container . |
| 7 | This is certainly a limitation of windstopper over microfibres or pertex coverings , which have some rain resistance or can be treated with a water repellent . |
| 8 | There is still no clear indication as to whether the additional capital consents will revert to the applicant service department 's budget or will be subsumed into the overall Council budget . |
| 9 | Furthermore , this jack can deliver two different pickup signals or can be adapted to provide on/off switching when used with battery-powered circuits . |
| 10 | The hood is designed to fit in with standard kitchen units or can be fitted on its own over a freestanding cooker and is available in white or brown . |
| 11 | The Foyer on the ground floor of the Chesham Building offers suitable space for small exhibitions and poster sessions or can be used for registration purposes . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The expected national economic benefits are sufficient to justify the risks that would be incurred , ’ Layfield concluded . |
| 14 | Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster . |
| 15 | Here we review the significant progress made during Year Two of the plan , and look ahead to the action that will be taken during Year Three . |
| 16 | It should detail the person handling the case , any supervisor , the scope of the client 's instructions , timescale for resolution , secretary 's details , the action taken , the action that will be taken , costs and the complaints procedure . |
| 17 | Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er |
| 18 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 19 | Mr. Dear says that almost no action that could be registered and measured by Her Majesty 's inspector has yet been taken by the police committee . |
| 20 | Does he agree that the most effective action that could be taken to end homelessness would be if Labour-controlled London councils brought back into use the many thousands of empty homes under their control ? |
| 21 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 22 | The process demonstrates both response to external pressure and the action that can be taken between companies which are both based in industrialised ( and therefore interdependent ) countries . |
| 23 | Game theory , in general , postulates a set of ‘ players ’ ( the ‘ interested parties ’ , be they individuals or groups ) , each of whom has a set of strategies ; strategies meaning courses of action that can be taken , which may be conditional on moves made by the others . |
| 24 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 25 | If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement . |
| 26 | Will the doubtful gains for the child 's personality development of an undiscriminating total ban outweigh the fairly certain chagrin , embarrassment and isolation that will be experienced when he or she can not join in some of the most popular entertainments and games of middle childhood ? |
| 27 | Equation ( 2.2 ) suggests that the chosen wealth measure has the characteristics that would be expected of the ‘ true ’ wealth series since the imposition of a unit wealth elasticity proves data acceptable with a Wald statistic . |
| 28 | Most documents have many characteristics that might be identified by a searcher as the criterion by which the document would be selected as relevant . |
| 29 | They are T. vittatus , T. Schalleri , and T. pumilus , and all are bubble nesters and have the strange vocal characteristics that will be described later . |
| 30 | As many parasites occupy more than one environment during their life-cycles , they must possess suites of characteristics that can be expressed at the proper time . |