Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again . |
| 2 | Keeping such a cold temperature will require many food companies to buy better refrigeration equipment so , until April 1993 , a temperature of no warmer than 8°C must be maintained for those foods . |
| 3 | If there are 26 million people at work in Britain , an increase in demand of not less than 10% would be needed to mop-up 4 million unemployed . |
| 4 | To increase foreign investment the government in March 1991 announced that foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits , but that only firms investing more than $2,800,000 would be permitted to retain the three-year tax exemption previously enjoyed by all foreign firms . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) that the spending plans submitted should fall within the guidelines described earlier in that the money should not be spent on sets of textbooks , nor for the furnishing or decoration of premises , and that no more than 20% should be allocated to non-book resources |
| 6 | A debtor who did that and swore that his all amounted to less than £5 would be brought before a court . |
| 7 | Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) An action of which the value ( defined below ) is less than £25,000 shall be tried in a county court unless : ( a ) a county court considers that it ought to transfer the action to the High Court for trial and the High Court considers that it ought to try the action ; or ( b ) it is commenced in the High Court and the High Court considers that it ought to try the action ( art 7(3) ) . |
| 9 | Homes worth more than £212,000 will be charged a tax of £792 , plus £162 for water and sewerage . |
| 10 | The automatic reference to arbitration of a dispute involving a sum of less than £500 can be rescinded on the application of either party or on the motion of the district judge , but only on one ( or more ) specified grounds . |
| 11 | Speed limiting devices to stop cars going faster than 70mph and lorries more than 60mph could be fitted to try to cut fuel consumption . |
| 12 | Since differences of less than 1% can be shown to be statistically significant when working with large sample numbers , Woodley chose to comment on differences and trends that appear to meaningful rather than merely statistically significant . |
| 13 | Proposed mergers involving companies with a turnover of less than £1.4billion may be examined by the Commission at the request of an affected member state . |
| 14 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 15 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend should consider that point carefully because people may be misled , as his constituent was . |
| 17 | If there are too few to meet emergency treatment needs , there will be intolerable pressure on families and community services because people will be admitted only as a desperate last resort , treated rapidly and perhaps discharged too early . |
| 18 | Note that it would be inadvisable to assemble the code directly into the location at which the unit is plugged since data could be lost if a mistake is made when relocating the SRAM . |
| 19 | Commenting on the investigation , the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) noted that while aircraft could be strengthened against smaller explosions , this presented a " formidable task " . |
| 20 | A southerly slope could be simulated by ensuring that 50% of the random numbers generated by the computer were interpreted as ‘ flow south ’ while 20% could be allocated both to ‘ flow east ’ and ‘ flow west ’ with the remaining 10% being ‘ flow north ’ . |
| 21 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 22 | Rodney was discussing with Veronica whether people should be given the choice of English or French mustard . |
| 23 | A common question is whether people should be tested before vaccination for existing immunity to HBV and/or after inoculation to determine whether the vaccination was successful . |
| 24 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 25 | And , talking of justice and lobsters , I understand that a court of law recently had to decide whether lobsters were insects or " animals " ( it bore upon whether people should be allowed to boil them alive ) . |
| 26 | Whether people should be retested five or more years after the initial vaccination to determine the need for a booster is not well established . |
| 27 | He can be trained to discriminate as the rest of us do , between things that are blue and things that are not , just as people can be trained to discriminate between harmonies and discords . |
| 28 | Just as people can be educated in Welsh , or in immersion schools in Canada in French , so we can predict situations where BSL might be the sole medium . |
| 29 | Below : The hard centres of such flowers as hellebores should be pressed separately for the best results . |