Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |
| 2 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |
| 3 | There are two stations within ten minutes drive from which travellers may be in London in under an hour . |
| 4 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 6 | The crew would in turn be commanded by an unusually large number of officers for a merchant ship , for , in addition to the commander , the ship might carry six mates , a surgeon , a purser , five midshipmen and a surgeon 's mate , any one of whose places would be of value to a politician seeking to build up an interest . |
| 7 | The General Board shall have power to accept or refuse the application and , if it accepts it , to determine , in consultation with the professor concerned , the number of students whose names may be on the register at any one time and the method of their selection . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 9 | As always he must wait for the dust to settle after the Scottish Rally and the Donegal International , too , before being certain which drivers and what cars will be in his starting line-up . |
| 10 | I have the impression that in some quarters no thought is being given to what discoveries might be round the corner and in others no provision is being made to take advantage of them . |
| 11 | We can not even start to conceive what conditions might be like in that universe , but there is no reason to conclude , point-blank , that it does not exist . |
| 12 | We get some glimpse of what conditions would be like without water by observing modern deserts , which commonly fluctuate from +45°C to around zero , in the course of twelve hours ! |
| 13 | Check the tide times and find out what conditions will be like at your location . |
| 14 | You know what families can be like . |
| 15 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 16 | This is a foretaste of what things will be like — if the polls are correct — over the next five years . |
| 17 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 18 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 19 | When listed buildings are subject to major refurbishment , especially in historic towns , it is important that the local planning officer and the local civic society are aware of the interior and have examined it to see what features may be worth retaining . |
| 20 | This , one felt , was what elections would be like 100 years from now . |
| 21 | Men define what women should be like . |
| 22 | But that 's what madmen must be like . |