Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been unfair to deny the Arbroath support the opportunity to revel in what will be the biggest day in the club 's history , ’ McGrain said . |
| 2 | She kept out of his way , too experienced in public disappointment to stray into what could still be a snare . |
| 3 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 4 | All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view . |
| 5 | Patriotism and religion combined in what must surely be one of the most emotional reactions of the Greeks to the impact of an alien society . |
| 6 | In the durables category , the Electricity Association 's Creature Comforts campaign carried off what must surely be its last award . |
| 7 | Thus , realism may most readily be viewed as a reaction to the attempt to construct a formal science of law founded on what may be termed the case method ; that is , the assumption that , by close examination of past judicial decisions , the basic principles of law could be deduced . |
| 8 | After discussing various loopholes in the law of theft the committee proceeded in what may be seen as a key paragraph . |
| 9 | This means that there is a need to search beyond what may at first appear to be a case of depression or senility . |
| 10 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 11 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 12 | Readers of the various chapters in Unwin ( 1969 ) will see a clear distinction made between what may be called education plus technology ( where individuals try to find uses for available equipment ) and the study of instructional methods and systems , which is what the true discipline of educational technology is properly concerned to encourage . |
| 13 | In almost all cases children have some relevant experience to draw on which can account for otherwise surprising ideas . |
| 14 | It is vital to any understanding of the present state , both of public debate and personal morality , to realise the part played by what might generally be called the ‘ humanist lobby ’ . |
| 15 | This provision against set off enables clearing members to comply with reg 3.04 of the Financial Services ( Client Money ) ( Supplementary ) Regulations 1991,5 which requires the opening of a client transaction account6 ( money credited to which must be segregated ) with every exchange or clearing house with which a futures broker authorised under the 1986 Act registers client transactions . |
| 16 | Once Newco commences paying dividends , these should be funded by payments of dividends from Target outside the group income election , so that Target must account for ACT , but Newco will receive franked investment income , the tax credit attaching to which can be used to frank its own ACT liability when it pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 17 | An alternative to the expulsion procedure exists in what might be called compulsory retirement ( Clause 18.03 ) . |
| 18 | Thus the plaintiff would be obliged to show that he either bought/sold shares at an inflated/deflated price compared to what would have been the price , but for the defendant 's actions . |
| 19 | Teachers might find their loyalties divided : a wedge driven between what might be seen as opposing interests — for example supply cover for staff or more capitation for pupils . |
| 20 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 21 | Differences are played down and the self surrendered in what can become a metaphysical experience of the kind described by John Donne : |
| 22 | But if knowledge proceeds on what must be presupposed before it is proved , the cover is blown on the pretensions of critical doubt . |
| 23 | As coachloads of pensioners arrived at Westminster from around the country on a suitably chilly day to protest about what might happen to their heating bills when V A T's introduced . |
| 24 | As dormant land is an inevitable product of the planning system in the UK , we need a definite policy to deal with what will be a long-term feature of the inner city . |
| 25 | Just as the dominions of Canada , Australia and New Zealand were able to conduct their own economic policies while belonging to the sterling area — having their own Chancellors of the Exchequer operating their own fiscal policies , and raising their own tax revenues — so Britain will retain a wide freedom of action , while enjoying the benefit of belonging to a currency and economy underpinned by what will undoubtedly be the strongest currency in the world . |
| 26 | On the rationalist side in each case the enquiry begins from what may be called an anthropological starting-point . |
| 27 | THIS is unfortunate because the more intuitive Living Water approach points to what might be in ecological engineering . |
| 28 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 29 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 30 | On a renewed application for leave to move for what would now be called judicial review , this court granted the application . |