Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some role conflict when the librarian educated in a tradition of user-helping and support finds a situation calling for regulation ( even law enforcement ) that may appear to be a negative role . |
| 2 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 3 | Third , can booksellers make a greater profit using their shelf space for displaying electronic products than the book stocks that may have to be sacrificed ? |
| 4 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |
| 5 | Examples of emotions that may need to be expressed are : |
| 6 | There will , of course , always be certain competencies or aptitudes that may need to be tested , e.g. colour blindness or spatial awareness . |
| 7 | But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery . |
| 8 | Tony Benn is clearly not able to resolve the position of the monarchy within our system but he highlights a problem that may need to be confronted at some point in the future . |
| 9 | Very high rates of extensional flow are therefore required in order to extend polymer chains , the criterion for the critical strain meaning that may need to be about . |
| 10 | It can not be useful to talk about population growth ( Nature 362 , 379 ; 1993 ) as a ‘ threat to the global commons ’ that may need to be ‘ dealt with by coercion ’ before it becomes bothersome to ‘ the rest of us ’ , which I assume means those of us lucky enough to live in countries where contraceptives are readily available . |
| 11 | It is also one of the factors that may need to be taken into account in controlling advertisements and in determining whether a discontinuance order should be made . |
| 12 | The drafter should therefore consider a wide range of precedents , to consider the different matters that may need to be dealt with , and the different ways in which individual problems can be overcome . |
| 13 | By either course we need a considerable background of information that may seem to be largely useless until the creative moment arrives . |
| 14 | One can not know completely either the information that was available or the value that should have to be associated with obtaining more information prior to the decision being taken . |
| 15 | Not all birds fall victim to the cuckoo — many small birds that might appear to be ideal cuckoo hosts will not tolerate any strange egg in their nest and will remove it straight away . |
| 16 | It also covers you for anything that might need to be done in between . |
| 17 | Once the family sessions have begun , the counsellor has to ensure that the family group is maintained , despite the many potentially explosive problems and difficulties that might need to be discussed . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 19 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 20 | There is one well-known materialist account of different modes of knowledge that might seem to be useful here in preserving the ‘ mode of knowledge ’ approach against the need for the more drastic behaviouristic alternative . |
| 21 | Using similar materials in joint replacements , heart valves , membrane oxygenators and haemodialysis membranes presents specific problems associated with , for example , their biocompatibility , strength and permeability that might seem to be absent in contact lenses . |
| 22 | The intention was to relate the linguistic variation revealed to social patterns within the communities themselves , avoiding prior assumptions about social norms that might seem to be imposed from outside . |
| 23 | Attalli says the bank has enough money for the basic task of investment in private industry and in infrastructure projects ( ’ in fact , there is more money than projects , ’ he complains ) , as well as for training and education , but there are areas that could prove to be capital-hungry and ultimately create as many problems as they are intended to solve . |
| 24 | There are two commonly-used types of filter that could prove to be of little , if any use , in the course of keeping large cichlids — the small corner box filter and the sponge filter . |
| 25 | This computerised index replaced a card index system that used to have to be updated by hand by bureaux staff . |
| 26 | Reading experiences that would tend to be placed at this node would probably be characterised as unenjoyable readings , and the text itself would be described as boring or obscure and pretentious . |
| 27 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 28 | The DoE wrote to Water Authorities ‘ seeking from them assessments of the zones that would need to be designated ’ if the Directive came into being . |
| 29 | Additionally , to address the problem of large amounts of time-expired material being held in office space , a positive weeding exercise ( based on an identifying dormant files by the date they were last used ) was carried out , also reducing the number of file titles that would need to be held on the computerised index . |
| 30 | A further difficulty concerns the sheer numbers of such spores that would need to be involved . |