Example sentences of "that [vb mod] be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Inquiry has no bearing on the practical concerns of life , and science should not be valued for any ( unscientific ) practical applications that may be made of its current resting places ( 1.616ff . ) . |
| 3 | The use that may be made of the occurrence or non-occurrence of a reinvestigation by the defence is bound to be problematic . |
| 4 | Mussolini took advantage of these largely theoretical impositions to say that the League 's intention was to destroy the Italian economy and , surprising as it may seem today , the people of Italy reinforced what proved to be his growing megalomania by demonstrating , when inspired to do so by the press , that they were ready to make any sacrifices that might be asked of them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe , it was not unusual to hear naturalists speaking of their scientific awakening in terms that might be used of a religious conversion . |
| 7 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 8 | Everything that could be made of iron was , from the churchyard fence and gates to the interior columns and arches , the window tracery and door frames , and even the pinnacles on the tower . |
| 9 | This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade . |
| 10 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
| 11 | Equation ( 2.2 ) suggests that the chosen wealth measure has the characteristics that would be expected of the ‘ true ’ wealth series since the imposition of a unit wealth elasticity proves data acceptable with a Wald statistic . |
| 12 | In any case , there is nothing here that would be thought of value in the shining land beyond the golden river of Frith . |
| 13 | The use that will be made of the online information retrieval systems depends in part on the education of users about the availability and functioning of this method of information retrieval . |
| 14 | It is too early to give a confident forecast of the use that will be made of the SE . |
| 15 | Systems such as CD-I , CDTV and their derivatives will also need modification in order to deliver both the appropriately encoded TV signals and the display quality that will be expected of them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In situations of this kind provisions governing access and format may exert powerful constraints on the use that can be made of these data . |
| 18 | The thrust of Peter Roper 's paper is to outline the practical use that can be made of computer technology in Industrial Relations applications , not to give detailed descriptions of programs or suites . |
| 19 | Despite the criticisms that can be made of Etzioni 's methodology it is valuable in identifying different types of organizational power and relating these to other organizational characteristics , including not only efficiency but also the types of members , clients , customers and other ‘ participants ’ that Etzioni felt should be included in the analysis of an organization 's existence . |
| 20 | Yet in its turn climate goes far to set limits to the use that can be made of the physical features of the country in which we live . |
| 21 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 22 | The worst that can be said of the new minister is that he " undoubtedly possessed a definite political programme , but he was too cautious and too indecisive to carry it out " . |
| 23 | Just as all the genetic information that can be conceived of is coded for by just four molecules , and all the proteins that exist are built up from just twenty amino acids , so efficient biochemical systems once established tend to be preserved . |
| 24 | It describes the performance that can be expected of the system . |