Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of animals which might be chosen are pigs , horses , cows , cats , dogs , ducks and sheep . |
| 2 | even those words which can be produced are often poorly articulated ; |
| 3 | Subjects which may be investigated are very wide-ranging and may be drawn from history , the environment , politics , culture or from issues of local concern — housing , consumer issues , education etc . |
| 4 | A third effect which could be added is that business experience would be gained by the local merchant , and thus the society begins to develop a pool of people with such business experience . |
| 5 | One of the projects which will be supported is a new rapid rail transit system , the Randstad Rail , for the country 's capital , The Hague . |
| 6 | Where annual rents were protected by custom , the only payment which could be varied was the entry fine payable by a new tenant , and one can see a decline in these comparable with those in payments for leases . |
| 7 | The data base which will be used is the annual Family Expenditure Survey for the fourteen years 1970-1983 — a total of some 100,000 households . |
| 8 | One of the hypotheses which will be tested is that comprehension of the logical character of ‘ mental state verbs ’ is necessary for understanding that some sentences are true in virtue of their form alone ( eg ‘ The father is a man ’ ) . |
| 9 | However , the range which can be used is amazing . |
| 10 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 11 | The only areas which must be polished being the areas in contact with the wood ; the bevels . |
| 12 | Overall these are very comfortable necks to play , but the only areas which could be tidied are perhaps the most important ones : the nuts and the fret-ends . |
| 13 | One issue which will be debated is the ‘ ownership ’ of sports coverage and the access to clips for News Programmes . |
| 14 | Errors which may be reported are described in Appendix B. |
| 15 | Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small . |
| 16 | One question which will be examined is to what extent increased computerisation and automation of various aspects of the business might be part of such a strategy . |
| 17 | The first and most obvious question which can be asked is , why call the union between a man and an operated transsexual a ‘ marriage' ? |
| 18 | The question which should be posed is not whether offenders should be permitted to profit from their crimes but whether crime should be profited from by any person . |
| 19 | Another question which could be asked is : Would the beast have existed amongst the girls ? |
| 20 | Once the gospel has been received by a group and a church formed , the next question which must be faced is , ‘ How should this Christian community live and organise itself to express most authentically the new life of the gospel within that cultural context ? ’ |
| 21 | The question which must be addressed is this : are they that good — or are England that bad ? |
| 22 | Many civil laws are derived from the common law , e.g. tort of negligence , whilst in the area of hotel and catering law the majority of criminal offences which may be committed are statutory , e.g. involving the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 23 | Each end of Glencoe was sealed off and every adult male who could be found was killed . |
| 24 | In the canal carrying business the number of sons who could be involved was limitless and women and children could help to work the boats . |
| 25 | Some of the contracts you might be offered are : hire purchase , lease purchase , lease , contract hire , balloon lease purchase and secured loan . |
| 26 | The number of motors which can be controlled is limited by the requirement that step commands may have to be issued to all motors between successive clock interrupts . |
| 27 | The Local Government Act 1972 specifically states that the only business which can be transacted is that appearing in the summons convening the meeting . |
| 28 | One potential countermeasure which will be explored is to direct memory serach to contradictory evidence such as the individual 's own driving errors . |
| 29 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 30 | A further point which might be made is that the concise , fluent format of the interviewer 's questions is very unlike the format of normal conversation , where false starts , hesitations and ambiguities are the norm ( Schegloff 1979 ) . |