Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh det] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be nothing which might be regarded as clandestine . |
| 2 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 3 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 4 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 5 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 6 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 7 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 8 | This will be dealt with in greater detail in Chapter 8 , but it needs to be mentioned briefly here as something which should be agreed at the outset . |
| 9 | These documents together with covering letters enable MAS and the vendor to control the sale process , something which should be used to maximum advantage to help enable an acceptable/full price in line with the agreed objectives to be achieved . |
| 10 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 11 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 12 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 13 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 14 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 15 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 16 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 17 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 18 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 19 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 20 | In future , it recommended the construction of something which could be transported to several shows . |
| 21 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 22 | Use quotations , something which could be lifted as such . |
| 23 | Was it something which could be conferred , by means of an act of dubbing , or by the issue of a patent ? |
| 24 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |
| 25 | We should try to see space itself as something which can be made as articulate as verbal language . |
| 26 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 27 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 28 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |
| 29 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 30 | They will see the gradual integration of text , graphics and video into a single multimedia approach as something which can be handled within the reskilling tradition which is now being established . |