Example sentences of "[modal v] be [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 2 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 3 | Surely all that is required for us to make a start is that there should be sentences whose meaning is more nearly confined to what is immediately available to us , not that there be sentences whose meaning can be completely given in terms of their assent conditions . |
| 4 | The view was taken that , since ISS offered a five-year programme of implementation , the proposals should be ones which could be implemented within that time-scale . |
| 5 | The last term e it , is the error term of the equation and in the case that the equation has been specified correctly and is unbiased then the sum of the error terms should be zero which would reduce Eq . |
| 6 | Prisons should be places which are austere but decent , providing a busy and positive regime which prepared prisoners for their ultimate release . |
| 7 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 8 | There is at least this restriction on the properties that count here , that they must be properties whose presence or absence can be registered by the person making the judgement . |
| 9 | This must be data whose relationship we are concerned to discover . |
| 10 | All of these comments might be qualities which we refuse to see in ourselves , and could guide us along the path towards self-discovery . |
| 11 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 12 | Erm it 'll it 'll be enquiries which are of very general interest , Mm erm which I should think you 're just as much of an expert as anybody else at answering . |
| 13 | Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden . |
| 14 | She did not waste time thinking it could be Oliver whose quiet movement she had sensed in the bedroom . |
| 15 | Most of those could be animals whose consignors have not applied for the special beef premium payment ( BSPS ) or which do not carry a CCD ( Cattle Control Document ) or passport . |
| 16 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 17 | But there may be things which are forbidden by your law . ’ |
| 18 | In other words , they 're not , they 're not extras er in , in the absolute sense , they are necessary for that particular scheme , but they may be things which less erm experienced consultants might omit . |
| 19 | One man 's conflict may be water which flows unceremoniously off another 's back ; no sweat , no hassle . |
| 20 | Whilst there may be circumstances which influence individuals in their selection of an adviser , it seems likely that the crucial factors are availability , cost and reputation . |
| 21 | One result of devolving off-duty allocation to ward level may be arrangements which take too much account of staff interests . |
| 22 | Other limestone gorges may be valleys which were cut very deep by old rivers but whose sides have remained almost vertical . |
| 23 | The most recent events may be impacts which have yielded craters with bright rays ( section 6.3.5 ) which may be no more than a few tens of Ma old . |
| 24 | The symbols X , Y , … on the right may be symbols which occur in the text ( terminal symbols ) ; or they may be other symbols which are invented for use just within the grammar ( variables ) . |
| 25 | It is of benefit to compare all the very early maps one with another , as each will show something different , and there may be anomalies which lead to interesting studies and , quite possibly , new discoveries . |
| 26 | There may be pupils whose eye condition makes it difficult to tolerate bright light and who suffer to some extent from photophobia ( for instance those who are albinos or who have coloboma ) . |
| 27 | The cause most immediately apparent may be presuppositions which are inaccurate or inadequate , but this is not necessarily the root of the problem . |
| 28 | There would be sentences whose observational consequences we know but of whose other contribution ( whatever that may be ) we are ignorant . |
| 29 | Indifference and immediate acceptance would be reactions which would worry us . |
| 30 | Politics gives us a common view of life , but I think we would be friends whatever we did . |