Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicit in this last argument is another logical relation which is more interesting for this question than that between ought and is : the relation , that is to say , between ought and can . |
| 2 | How do you think each of these-may be made difficult by the landforms and by the climate ? |
| 3 | They have devised several ways of producing the required magnetic field , including a slotted busbar ( such as might be used in a power station ) around which the fibre can be wrapped . |
| 4 | In this respect the Planning Department preferred the ‘ permanent ’ use offered by conversion to rented housing to a transitory use , such as might result from re-use of the building as , say , a carpet sales warehouse . |
| 5 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 6 | Only such a crisis , of almost inconceivably devastating proportions — such as might follow a major war — could so undermine and destroy the existing pluralist political structures that a new form of fascist-style charismatic leadership might appear to sizeable proportions of the population to be a viable and attractive solution . |
| 7 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 8 | He carries no bag , such as might hold a towel and swimsuit . |
| 9 | The ideal screening system , such as might be used in antenatal clinics should utilize one of each sort of test so that a combination of sensitivity with selectivity can be obtained . |
| 10 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 11 | He had , it seemed , no job and no future except such as might be offered by his own National Socialist League . |
| 12 | Further , the Webbs ' gross failure of comprehension is complemented by their advocacy of an apparatus of state and municipal ownership , and of a bureaucratic management such as might have been deliberately designed not to maximise those chances . |
| 13 | Free chlorine in small amount ( 0.1–0.2 p.p.m. ) , such as might come from water sterilization , is not likely to be troublesome , but , if in excess of this , it could be objectionable . |
| 14 | This is caused by release of carbon dioxide , which gases off providing there is good water turbulence such as might be provided by a waterfall or venturi . |
| 15 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 16 | My impression — and without a full inquiry such as might be carried out by the social service inspectorate it can be little more — is that the assessment of the father and his partner had scarcely advanced . |
| 17 | Further , because the public interest is the root of corporate legitimacy demands for responsibility need not be confined to the avoidance of obvious forms of social harm , such as might result from pollution , dangerous products , or false advertising , but potentially embrace all exercises of social decision-making power by companies , the manifestations of which were considered earlier . |
| 18 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 19 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 20 | In any case , the reasons for regarding the idea of numerical identity and that of numerical diversity as significant are not such as might enable us to decide unequivocally whether something observed on one occasion is numerically the same as something else observed on a different occasion , or how many ontological objects are involved in a given case . |
| 21 | It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian . |
| 22 | An entirely polyphonic passage ( such as might occur in an orchestral fugue , for instance ) . |
| 23 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 24 | Erm you 're talking about people working outside in elements er you know , natural elements such as might be brought to bear in the month of January or February . |
| 25 | Their idea is to examine the feasibility of a one-step diagnostic to indicate the presence of a particular molecule , such as might be used to test for the presence of surfactant . |
| 26 | schemes restricted to an association of topics such as might be encountered in local collections in an industrial library or an archive . |
| 27 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 28 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 29 | Any error as a result of variation in the proportion of active and inactive tissue between patients ( such as might result if one patient 's mucosa was atrophic ) should be alleviated by measuring glutamine metabolism in adjacent biopsy specimens and examining the ratio of butyrate/ glutamine metabolised . |
| 30 | The ‘ LOB-H ’ texts are business and government documents such as might be dictated to a speech input workstation . |