Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument .
2 It tends to present in elderly people , who may not be known to be diabetic .
3 Yet , I will go on to argue that black kids seriously involved in sport tend to be rather better placed academically than others who may not be immersed in sport .
4 As a professional , an engineer may owe a duty of care to anyone who may reasonably be expected to be affected by his or her professional conduct .
5 For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions .
6 Just as the Catholic saints , who may well be associated with particular areas or objects like Hindu gods , all manifest the same divine power , they can be reconciled with monotheism .
7 In the Lewis Papers , Warren remarked , ‘ With his passing we lose him who may perhaps be described as the hero of our saga …
8 He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin .
9 Just as the pilgrim who travels to the earthly Jerusalem leaves behind him all his possessions to enable his journey , so Hilton teaches that that which propels the inner journey is a balancing of the will and the mind in the simultaneous awareness that nothing is possible without God who must therefore be desired above all else .
10 Who must now be disciplined ; who must now be deterred from killing each other , as might otherwise be their natural inclination .
11 The Attorney-General had been astonished at the verdict and came to the conclusion that the jury had viewed Leese as a stupid crank with honest convictions who should not be convicted of the serious charge of seditious libel .
12 It does n't sound like much of a cover story to me , and I prefer the idea that the locals thought Tony was just an eccentric who should not be allowed near sharp objects .
13 So , if someone 's playing games well whatever games they are please stop it there are people , human beings involved here who should not be used in the political fashion that 's being used .
14 Westergaard and Resler reject the view that the so-called separation of ownership and control in the joint stock company results in the rise of salaried managers who should properly be placed in a middle class .
15 Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation .
16 This was an important judgement for management , who might otherwise be cast in the role of rationalizers whose goal was simply to move patients between wards and institutions as the needs of economy dictated .
17 To attract those users who might otherwise be waylaid by clone vendors with their own Sparc 10 equivalents out soon , Mitsui 's sales director David Wallis promises an upgrade which could save the user up to $10,000 — but with no details of what it will actually cost them .
18 If successful the group will have a fleet of four vehicles specially designed to take disabled people around town , people who might otherwise be confined to their homes .
19 There were some minor foreign royals who had attended the Christmas celebrations in the palace who might also be prevailed upon to come — they would provide a little exotic colour .
20 From the Board 's viewpoint the negative factors relating to evening courses were concerned mainly with the instructors , who might well be tired after a day 's work and might also be anxious about a long journey home afterwards .
21 A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting .
22 Even student teachers , who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants , are n't happy .
23 Section 3 states : Where work of construction , repair , maintenance or demolition or any other work is done on or in relation to premises , any duty of care owed , because of the doing of the work , to persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises created by the doing of the work shall not be abated by subsequent disposal of the premises by the person who owed the duty .
24 ( 1 ) Where premises are let under a tenancy which puts on the landlord an obligation to the tenant for the maintenance or repair of the premises , the landlord owes to all persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises a duty to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances to see that they are reasonably safe from personal injury or from damage to their property caused by a relevant defect .
25 The first was to incorporate the Gaza Strip into Israel , including its refugee population who might possibly be returned to their original villages .
26 Governor Clinton , in other words , is a man who could well be accused of wanting power so badly that he is , quite literally , prepared to kill for it .
27 Another analysis of a sample of sixteen English parishes has shown that in only one case did the number of males married between 1721 and 1750 who could also be found in both the baptism and burial records exceed 50 per cent ( in that case it was 51 per cent ) .
28 By using the term ‘ evangelical ’ the leaders were purposefully excluding Unitarians who could easily be sacrificed in order to get Methodists .
29 Infants dying of sudden infant death syndrome included 229 Maoris , 240 non-Maoris , and 16 children who could not be assigned to an ethnic group .
30 But this one who could not be named with impunity , who could not be copied without distortion , still remained very much beyond our ken .
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