Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 do not be pressuried into a quick hard-sell ; this is an important investment which should be afforded due consideration
2 And it was suggested that the closure programme had not been properly thought out , resulting in some homes being singled out for closure which should be kept open .
3 Two of each category of representative will be allowed to attend the initial and regular follow-up training sessions which will be organized free of charge by .
4 Balanchine , Ashton , MacMillan and now Bintley break many conventions , but they never lose sight of its true qualities in those of their ballets which can be called classical .
5 Ashton and MacMillan adopt the same practice in their ballets which can be called classical in the court meaning of the term and whenever the music used is composed according to the formulae for classical composition .
6 Identify the type of mark-up ( if any ) of the text which will be applied prior to capture :
7 In the Liberal tradition , Asquith preferred to think of state welfare as a temporary measure which would be rendered unnecessary by the increasing capacity of the population to practice self-help .
8 We have now identified two levels of stress : primary and secondary , as well as a third level which can be called unstressed and regarded as being the absence of any recognisable amount of prominence .
9 The European Commission is planning to cut the legal limit for blood alcohol in drink-driving offences to 50mg/100ml in proposals which could be implemented EC-wide if approved by a majority of EC states .
10 These commands are used to define geometric entities , that is points , lines and surfaces which may be given symbolic names .
11 Since this was lithographed , by H. C. Richter , it is also much bigger , in a large folio size instead of quarto ; but with small birds which can be shown life-size on a page of ordinary dimensions , this merely adds splendour
12 A variable capacitor consists of two sets of n interconnected semicircular conducting plates which can be given mutual rotation as shown in Fig. 2.46 .
13 It represented an attempt of a small group of working professional women to make a nationwide survey of the conditions of town life in England which might be held responsible for particular characteristics of wartime evacuees .
14 I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic .
15 A national system of appraisal might also encourage the teacher unions to unite in a demand for the establishment of a Teachers ' Council which could be made responsible for regulating entry to teaching and for establishing a code of conduct ( particularly important when teachers are able , in appraisal schemes , to judge their colleagues ) .
16 ‘ Stealin' Horses ’ pops out of nowhere and hangs in the air , a skeletal ballad from Griffin with the accompaniment of a ghostly piano which can be heard weeping softy to itself in the basement .
17 What is curious is that the members of this same dominant group which may be held responsible for the emergence of modernist architecture , and its appropriation by the state as an authority , do not , by and large , choose family homes of their own built in this style , which is clearly incompatible with their personal desires and images .
18 One of the principal concerns emerging from scenarios of regional climates which may be experienced due to a carbon-dioxide-induced warmer earth is that of warmer and drier conditions in the Corn Belt of the United States , especially since much of the world food market depends upon the availability of grain from that country .
19 The same applies to difficult sounds and pairs of sounds which will be found confusing in learning the language .
20 This taboo belongs to the same category , fayawan , as incest and other rules against mixing things which should be kept separate .
21 Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat .
22 Thanks to the intervention and wise counsel of an Edinburgh specialist in prints , we learnt just in time that we had a very valuable collection which should be sold complete .
23 Although often a marginal need in food environments , where hygiene regulations require the use of head gear , it is often cheaper to use safety helmets which can be wiped clean rather than incur laundry costs from the use of linen caps .
24 The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time .
25 [ The named man ] met his death at your hands in a manner which must be considered revolting by all right thinking people .
26 Details are available in a series of publications which may be obtained free of charge from :
27 For each of these properties , there will be a few clusters which can be assigned average characteristics .
28 The Northern Ireland goalkeeper replaces the suspended Pavel Srnecek for the visit of Sheffield Wednesday , a game which will be screened live on Sky .
29 Thomas Sutcliffe , Arts Editor of The Independent , will be chairing the debate which will be thrown open to an audience including Ian McKellen , David Puttnam and Ned Sherrin .
30 However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ .
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