Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ?
2 Some examples of the arrangements that you might be offered are :
3 Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 .
4 The probability that they will not be received is 1 unless you join , when the probability that they will be received is also 1 .
5 And the assumption that they can be given is grounded on faith alone .
6 A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance .
7 Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend .
8 The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones .
9 When the inputs to a perceptron s0 , s1 , … sN can only be 1 or 0 , then the possible inputs that it can be shown are the corners of an N-dimensional cube .
10 The experience of the Modular Course suggests that what must be avoided is ‘ Exocet thinking ’ : review systems do not stay healthy in fire-and-forget mode — they degenerate into a perfunctory ritual .
11 Exactly when , where , how and if it would be resurrected was extremely vague .
12 Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed .
13 Nothing changes/feelings shift , move endlessly in circles/moths beating at glass endlessly/all that energy expended on nothing/no-one lets you in/desire and what can be desired are all fixed within strict parameters/ established as everything you 're not/desire written against your body/encoded in all the spaces which are not you/contours which are not yours/you occupy the gap between desire and fulfilment/absence of choice/no choice at all/why are moths nocturnal when so strongly attracted to light ?
14 In the production context , of course , what can be bought are resources , and what can be sold are products . [ … ]
15 Although it is giving some of its ‘ glue ’ source to USL , most of what USL will have and what will be distributed is binary .
16 No perceptible direct line connects Edward 's law with Wyclif 's radicalism , but what can be asserted is that in this matter — as in so many others — Wyclif was not breaking new ground but appealing to ideas already long current in certain circles .
17 Of course , the inevitable questions of what that foundation should consist of and when it should be built are answered by the claim that the period of initial training is too short and therefore such knowledge must be provided earlier by the academic course or later by in-service courses .
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