Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Squirrels are not treated literally as ‘ things ’ in the outer world but as , firstly , parts of sets defined by such criteria as ‘ those that live in trees ’ and , secondly , ‘ available for symbolic manipulation ’ since they can be taken to stand for the very trees they live in . |
| 32 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 33 | Even here , something can be found to say for the deficit , as a safety valve for inflationary pressures . |
| 34 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 35 | Unlike the subject-predicate distinction , the notions of theme and rheme can be used to account for the acceptability ( rather than grammaticality ) of a given sequence in a given context . |
| 36 | The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above . |
| 37 | The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation |
| 38 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |