Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , commentators have noted that the draftsman of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 would seem to have confused issues concerning the weight or value that should be given to computer evidence , with that of its admissibility to court . |
| 2 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | In South Wales the part of the winter that could be devoted to training was confined to the pre-Christmas period because of the January start to ground preparation for the early potato crop . |
| 5 | Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) . |
| 6 | Hackman and Oldham are , however , pessimistic about the amount of attention that will be paid to job design considerations as new technology is introduced . |
| 7 | More than 20 developers from Sun 's technical staff are teaming with Oracle developers to enhance and localise the Oracle Applications products , as well as associated technologies to improve the efficiency of Sun 's worldwide manufacturing operations , implement the integration of Sun 's Open Look graphical user interface with all components of Oracle 's product suite , and optimise Oracle7 for Sun 's new multiprocessor servers and produce applications that can be sold to Sun 's customers as well . |
| 8 | Features include four hundred icon designs and fifty animated icons that can be added to DOS and Windows applications . |
| 9 | Features include four hundred icon designs and fifty animated icons that can be added to DOS and Windows applications . |
| 10 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 11 | In their absence , attention has been directed towards establishing changes in the distribution of income and wealth that can be attributed to government policy . |
| 12 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 13 | Firstly , we will introduce an alternative model of decision making — incrementalism — and secondly , we will consider whether it is an approach that can be commended to policy makers . |