Example sentences of "something which [vb mod] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Wordsworth described the river Duddon as something which would always be recognized by succeeding generations : |
| 2 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 3 | Community care proposals were perceived by many NHS staff as essentially to do with social care , something which could best be left to the local authorities . |
| 4 | That was something which could never be established after this lapse of time . |
| 5 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 6 | ‘ Parliament in my judgment has assumed and contemplated that the testator will have already made his will before he signs and the words in section 9 ( b ) ‘ give effect to the will ’ in my judgment do more naturally suggest that there is a document already in existence which contains either dispositive provisions or something which can properly be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 7 | Because the audience can take such an active part in still image work it is something which can easily be tackled in the classroom , which might be the best place for introducing it to a class who are unfamiliar with it . |
| 8 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 9 | The most straightforward use of psychic ability is in finding archaeological remains , which , at least , is something which can later be verified . |
| 10 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 11 | In one there is something which can almost be regarded as ‘ submission to service ’ : the registration of an address for service , the express appointment of an agent , the ‘ election of domicile ’ at a lawyer 's office . |
| 12 | It is not something which will magically be achieved by 1992 . |
| 13 | So the golden apple which Hercules first brought back or gathered , from Hesperia must have been grain ; and the Gallic Hercules with links of this gold , that issue from his mouth , chains men by the ears : something which will later be discovered as a myth concerning the fields . |
| 14 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 15 | ‘ It bothers me that , as a designer , I take natural resources and turn them into something which will eventually be thrown away to become landfill . |
| 16 | The key to the success of any rural experiment , however , is publicity — something which will always be that much more difficult in rural areas than in more heavily populated parts of the country . |