Example sentences of "thing which [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A state of knowledge is a set of facts of this form , and so the search can be described adequately in a language containing just the names of things which might be found , all possible coordinates , and the relation here-found . |
| 2 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 3 | Lord Denning explained that ‘ There are some things which may be required to be disclosed in the public interest , in which event no confidence can be prayed in aid to keep them secret . ’ |
| 4 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 5 | Where he is the occupier of premises in or on which the chattels ( not attached to the premises ) are found and , before the finding ‘ he has manifested an intention to exercise control over the [ premises ] and the things which may be upon it or in it ’ . |
| 6 | The use of circling or underlining parts of their work , arrows to show how pieces of work connect , brainstorming , asterisks to show things which may be worth returning to , parts of diagrams abandoned as a result becomes clear , and other messy ways of working may need to be encouraged if people are used to hiding their rough work or throwing it away . |
| 7 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 8 | Mere observation and reporting is inadequate , given the limited scope of things which can be truly observed ( Holy 1984 : 25 ) . |
| 9 | It is in the life and fragrance of that person , Jesus of Nazareth , that we have a pattern of care and love for all things which can be the basis for a discipleship that takes in a holistic approach to life . |
| 10 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 11 | Worknet is the product of a growing awareness that within this community these are things which can be achieved by a well organised , well targeted voluntary organisation which seeks to assist in the creation of employment . |
| 12 | The first says that the things which can be verified , theories , can never be conclusively verified . |
| 13 | Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier . |
| 14 | All these are things which can be changed . |
| 15 | Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute . |
| 16 | The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) . |
| 17 | A distinction must be made at this stage between things which can be used to make unauthorized copies of programs , but which also have legitimate uses ( for example , computers with two disk drives and cassette players with twin tape decks ) and things specifically designed to overcome copy-protection such as software to be used to copy other software which has been copy-protected . |
| 18 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |
| 19 | This taboo belongs to the same category , fayawan , as incest and other rules against mixing things which should be kept separate . |
| 20 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 21 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 22 | I do n't think the society I do n't think people will want this , but there could be certain things which could be quite convenient . |
| 23 | This exercise does several things which will be of use to investigative work later on . |
| 24 | Indeed , you will learn many things which will be of great benefit to you , not only in your later years in School , but also as you prepare for ‘ life in society ’ . |
| 25 | First of all there are people in universities who are inventing things which will be used next year or the year after or the year after that . |
| 26 | It 's not a great competition-winning portrait , but er certainly , it 's fine , sort of family album stuff and the sort of thing which 'll be in the family for many , many years to come . |
| 27 | ‘ As far as I am concerned , the honours system is a wonderful thing which should be retained . ’ |
| 28 | And what we wan na say to the General Secretary and the C E C that during the talks that there is one thing which must be maintained , and that is the structure of the G M B. The T & g comes to join us on our terms . |
| 29 | ‘ Just another thing which could be something or nothing . |
| 30 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |