Example sentences of "that [modal v] be give [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ .
2 There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ .
3 Wittgenstein does not compare other answers that may be given to the two questions .
4 To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time .
5 But for all the desirability of the help that may be given in careful marriage preparation , the experience of marriage itself brings to , life many personal challenges .
6 the degree of autonomy that should be given to ‘ country managers ’ in running the programme .
7 For example , if a court decides that the meaning of the word ‘ repair ’ is a question of fact , but that it is , in the context of the particular legislation , a jurisdictional fact , the court will then lay down the interpretation that should be given to such a term .
8 For example , assuming for the present that some notion of proportionality does underlie discrimination cases , the content that should be given to this notion will differ depending on whether the commentator is a utilitarian , a Rawlsian liberal , or a modern communitarian .
9 May we have an early debate on foreign affairs and aid and on the encouragement that should be given to President Serrano , who now says that he is keen to see the problem sorted out ?
10 Overall , commentators have noted that the draftsman of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 would seem to have confused issues concerning the weight or value that should be given to computer evidence , with that of its admissibility to court .
11 In addition to information about who is conducting the case and as to complaints procedures the Law Society 's guide suggests further information that should be given to the client at appropriate times .
12 What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object .
13 The Syrians watched impassively as one of the Christian gunmen produced a camera , the kind of small pocket camera that might be given to a child as a Christmas present .
14 Before the Second World War , there were , apart from those from the Royal Humane Society and Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , no appropriate awards that could be given to civilians who had performed outstanding or exceptional deeds of bravery ( the George Cross and George Medal were not instituted until World War II ) .
15 I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army .
16 Probably the first piece of advice that could be given to any new practitioner is that whilst a friend may be a client , a client should never become a friend , for an easy transition from a client to a friend can often lead to serious problems and difficulties .
17 Sports groups said it would mean the loss of open space that could be given to the public .
18 Albert Tarr , who was unmarried and lived with his widowed mother at the tiny Devon village of East Anstey , was subsequently posthumously awarded the Carnegie Bronze Medal — at that time before the introduction of the George Medal , one of the highest possible civilian awards that could be given for acts of heroism and bravery .
19 Avice Cam deserved the highest honour that could be given for service to others .
20 The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces .
21 The UN Declaration of Human Rights states : ‘ Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children . ’
22 We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs .
23 The Bill gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging new powers , relating not only to capping but to the vast number of orders and regulations that he will be able to issue , and even to the grants that will be given to London 's voluntary organisations .
24 Taking into account the notion of support , the most satisfactory definition that can be given of the English bare infinitive in the present state of our knowledge is therefore as follows : the bare infinitive is a non-finite verb form that provides for the incidence of its event to a support through all the instants of time required to actualize the complete lexical content of this event .
25 There are always two sets of reasons that can be given for psychical events , one that is phrased in terms of the culture 's Weltanschuung , and the other which the psychoanalytic observer can bring in terms of the unconscious feelings underlying the system .
26 For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them .
27 Education has learned to grab with ease but not to reach out and yet there is a good deal of help that can be given to small businesses and voluntary organisations once the idea of level three partnership has been grasped .
28 Second , if one does know in advance that the celebratory flowers are to be pressed , there are various details that can be given to the florist in question that will make one 's task much easier .
29 It is the name that can be given to a historical construct .
30 Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality .
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