Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 2 | The Panel 's decisions are creating a kind of accounting case law , and the reasons for them should be given formally and more fully . |
| 3 | Particulars of the departure from the statutory requirements and reasons for it must be stated . |
| 4 | Perhaps a good case for it might be made , but it seldom is . |
| 5 | The contract between us will be created either : a . |
| 6 | The sharper the boundaries , the more likely the dynamic between them will be articulated through more of less formal , institutionalised modes of mediation : patrons , brokers , interpreters , committees , councils and the like . |
| 7 | Someone still has to make a decision about who should be encouraged to reproduce , and as in the past , women still carry the physical , social and emotional burdens of the eugenicists ' plans . |
| 8 | I know that there are views among the opposition groups about what should be cut out of this budget . |
| 9 | Gandhi seems to have felt some flicker of remorse about his treatment of the Sarabhai family ; at any rate , without confessing error , he preoccupied himself with working out rules for what might be termed the just fast . |
| 10 | That applies as much to hon. Members opposite , to whose arguments for improving the system under their regime I look forward , as to other hon. Members with their proposals about what should be done about it . |
| 11 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 12 | Even if one 's occupation is freely chosen , it usually carries with it a set of rules about what should be done , when , how and to what standards . |
| 13 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 14 | To fulfil a positive role for a profession , its education and training programme should equip candidates for what will be demanded of them in their future careers . |
| 15 | I felt proud and grown-up as I made my way down the road , concentrating my mind for what might be required of me . |
| 16 | For younger enthusiasts there will be an under-14 tournament , entries for which must be received before 1.30pm on the day . |
| 17 | Secondly , there is uncertainty about what can be kept electronically , and what should be kept . |
| 18 | Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed . |
| 19 | Choreographers today choose to interpret a vast range of subjects through what can be termed the purely physical movements of the body , sometimes coloured by moods ranging from the tragic to the comic and even the ridiculous . |
| 20 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 21 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 22 | One major difference is that efficiency audits mix comments on monopoly abuse and performance with a great deal of what might be called management consultancy . |
| 23 | Our perception of what should be censored , therefore , changes with the times and over time . |
| 24 | In fact , we are talking about a reduction in the number of jobs across the UK over the next two to three years — the great bulk of which will be accommodated by the normal process of retirals , voluntary resignations and so on . |
| 25 | This phrase , the force of which may be lost on the present generation , had been made familiar by another Miss West , the buxom and sultry film-star ; the similarity of nomenclature was a coincidence of which Eliot took full advantage . |
| 26 | Introducing his Bill , Fisher voiced the opinion of liberal educationalists when he told the House that the schools would ‘ continue the general education ’ of the elementary level , and would give ‘ in addition vocational bias , the force of which will be graduated according to the age and occupation of the pupil ’ . |
| 27 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 28 | But brief mention of them will be made here as the opportunities for ward learning are so greatly enhanced by the provision of appropriate resources . |
| 29 | The following possibilities of choral orchestration are limited to the most-used textures ; traditional forms such as fugato , fugue , and canon are omitted , being too closely identified stylistically with past epochs to be of effective use today ( though some mention of them will be made later ) . |
| 30 | New forms of behaviour are the result of what can be regarded as a ‘ mind climate ’ or group mental energy creating a morphogenetic field . |