Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in this case the two outcomes are differentiated by the presence or the absence of a neutral event ( see also Fedorchak and Bolles 1986 ) , there are several other ways in which such a differentiation can be arranged . |
| 2 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 3 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 4 | Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman . |
| 5 | The whole moral right does not therefore repose in the embryo or the foetus but in the parent and in the medical personnel acting on behalf of society into which such a child would be born . |
| 6 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 7 | Not only do we lack a clearly articulated set of policy objectives , in the absence of a coordinating Ministry of Justice , we also lack the necessary institutional framework within which such a strategy could be implemented . |
| 8 | The only ground on which such a right could be defeated , according to Dworkin , would be a competing right advanced by another individual , and even then one such right could not be taken automatically to subordinate another . |
| 9 | Suppose that x and y are numbers , such that x is greater than y ; then it would appear that there is no conceivable way in which such a relation could be reduced to qualitative properties of one kind or another , and re-expressed , accordingly , in a form that does not require the existence of both its terms . |
| 10 | Upon closer examination , however , it was revealed that there were at least three ways in which such a conclusion would be misleading . |
| 11 | I was interested in his reiteration of the value of regional policies , because the criteria on which such a policy would be administered is of interest to one who comes from a county which is probably being hit by a more rapidly rising rate of unemployment than almost anywhere else . |
| 12 | It is difficult to see what such a procedure might be . |
| 13 | The whole description is an embodiment of middle-class values , not only in its moralistic conception of what such a home should be , but even in its prose . |
| 14 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 15 | Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills . |
| 16 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 17 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |