Example sentences of "what [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , reviewing the Zande material in the light of our widening experience , we can again detect what may be seen as a main morality religion ( the ancestor cult ) co-existing with a subsidiary , or ancillary , marginal witchcraft cult . |
| 2 | These arguments as to public reaction and " trouble " for the social worker apply only to what may be seen as more considerable reforms — the relaxation of strict sexual control in most residential institutions , a greater measure of sexual tolerance for the mentally handicapped , plainer recognition of the sexual needs and problems of earlier adolescence ( even pre-adolescence ) and so on . |
| 3 | Perhaps we are more on our guard against the possibility of over-attachment by or to the adolescent or prepubertal child — or what may be seen as over-attachment . |
| 4 | After discussing various loopholes in the law of theft the committee proceeded in what may be seen as a key paragraph . |
| 5 | There have been some dramatic prosecutions of commercial fraud , or what may be seen as criminal negligence . |
| 6 | ‘ A man is honoured in that country , ’ he continues , ‘ according to what may be seen of his actions , conduct and zeal , since no one in India knows anything of family or lineage . ’ |
| 7 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 8 | Constraints of finance , manpower and time all conspire to limit what may be achieved , and compromises are inevitable . |
| 9 | I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations . |
| 10 | developing teachers ' skills in consultation and negotiation , on behalf of the pupil , with colleagues across departmental and managerial boundaries ; with parents as partners in their children 's learning ; and , where indicated , with members of other professions across institutional and professional boundaries ( cf DHSS guidelines 1988 , which , ironically , suggest more awareness of what may be achieved through the personal and social education aspects of the school curriculum than their DES counterparts with regard to the forthcoming national curriculum ) . |
| 11 | The art critic has no decisive voice in such controversies , though arguments can be made by analogy from existing art to what may be done . |
| 12 | Even if all informed people could agree concerning what animal welfare is , and how well various animals are faring — and these are large assumptions — the animal welfarist 's position would remain controversial because of how it answers the question ‘ What may be done in the name of , or in pursuit of , animal welfare ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If the king my brother-in-law is ill , then it behoves me to see him , judge what may be done to assist him and inform the queen-dowager . ’ |
| 14 | I think that very often where Bentham and Beccaria differ in detail this is traceable to Beccaria 's conviction that what may be done in the name of utility should be limited by consideration of what befits the dignity of man . |
| 15 | It tells us what may be done , but not when or how . |
| 16 | Even if this is only one of possible readings , these stanzas and the poem as a whole surely represent an extraordinarily searching and painful exploration of what may be involved , for people of today , in the Virgilian pietas . |
| 17 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 18 | He is the head of a great Government office — what may be called the secretarial office ; he is ‘ the King 's Secretary of State for all departments ’ ; whatever writing has to be done in the King 's name is done by the Chancellor or through him and his officers . |
| 19 | The two most important catchphrases , certainly by the 1890s , were the ‘ law of evolution ’ and what may be called the spirit of organization . |
| 20 | It is held together not by command and obedience but by influence and what may be called allegiance … |
| 21 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 22 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 23 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 24 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
| 25 | The relationship with what may be called the NWICO movement needs both study and experimentation . |
| 26 | That is , the appearance of AB being shorter than BC is not what may be called a ‘ perspectival appearance ’ . |
| 27 | He held what may be called the ‘ thought → speech → thought ’ or ‘ translation ’ theory of communication . |
| 28 | Another of the traditional arguments is what may be called ‘ the parrot argument ’ . |
| 29 | On the rationalist side in each case the enquiry begins from what may be called an anthropological starting-point . |
| 30 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |