Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them must be playing snooker three and four times a week in two or three different leagues . |
| 2 | An arms trade committee , the function of which would be to issue export licences to enterprises , was in preparation . |
| 3 | One element of which would be to require member states to impose a duty on auditors of financial undertakings , to report breaches of laws or regulations or other adverse circumstances to supervisors . |
| 4 | They support a whole range of policies , the inevitable result of which would be to make unemployment higher than would otherwise be the case . |
| 5 | One of the results of the quantitative increase in material culture , providing new domains of representation all working in particular ways , is to complicate further the problem of what may be termed material ideology . |
| 6 | One major difference is that efficiency audits mix comments on monopoly abuse and performance with a great deal of what might be called management consultancy . |
| 7 | What is especially fascinating about this text is that a rehabilitation of masculinity coexists with an ironic repudiation of it , and a critique of what might be called masculinity 's cultural unconscious . |
| 8 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 9 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 10 | Like Hornblower , whose temperament was delighting readers with its contradictions at the same time as that of the Quinn adventures , Septimus has adopted certain measures of what could be called self-defence . |
| 11 | Most of us will be working part time and voluntary work will be considered work just as much as paid work and in that way we can distribute the enormous amount of work that needs to be done more evenly . |
| 12 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 13 | And at two strategic points along each side of the punt are metal tubes into which can be slid umbrella poles or bank-sticks . |
| 14 | The information you get from him/her will be spoken language . |
| 15 | Whereas contemporary French Catholic institutions devoted only one-sixth of their curriculum to what might be termed science , Ramus allocated a half , praising the value of the mechanical arts . |
| 16 | Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples . |
| 17 | Do you hold any specific beliefs about what might be called beauty ? |
| 18 | Readers of the various chapters in Unwin ( 1969 ) will see a clear distinction made between what may be called education plus technology ( where individuals try to find uses for available equipment ) and the study of instructional methods and systems , which is what the true discipline of educational technology is properly concerned to encourage . |