Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 This final section will attempt to use the material reviewed to reconcile these conclusions and provide predictions about the relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving which will be explored in the experimental chapters .
2 A man who thought he 'd lost pension payments worth thirty-eight thousand pounds with the crash of the Maxwell empire is celebrating after hearing he WILL be paid .
3 A judge took pity on Nicola Lee , 19 , after hearing she will be haunted by the tragedy for the rest of her life .
4 After assessing what could be done , national park staff , together with local stone cleaner Peter McGuinness and the specialist , Chesterfield-based firm Can UK , set about sand-blasting the rock .
5 ‘ C ’ talks of seeing what can be salvaged , seeing if this man could still be turned , to follow the original score .
6 As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ?
7 And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school .
8 Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility .
9 But now , a few litres of Finish 'Em would be put to the service of a more crucial domestic task , the elimination of Mrs Farr .
10 To put the matter simply , they have the role of deciding what should be taught and when , with the specialist teacher as adviser giving guidance in the case of the visually handicapped pupils as to ‘ how ’ .
11 Instead of deciding what should be done and working out later if it can be afforded , the economists say the problem should tackled the other way round .
12 The acquisition of evidence and the presentation of evidence are linked , of course , in that it may be necessary to decide what should be presented before it is acquired although more usually it is a matter of presenting what can be acquired .
13 Alternative methods of getting there will be investigated .
14 As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument .
15 As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice :
16 Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object .
17 Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas .
18 Once you are in the habit of reviewing it can be done , alone or with others who participated in the experience , in about five minutes fiat .
19 Between our sense of beginning and of concluding we should be led on a journey which is not only logical but is also of continuous emotional interest .
20 Underlying all of them is a form of thinking which might be called the ‘ urge to quantify ’ .
21 Judge Peter Fallon has ruled that neither she — nor the schoolboy accused of killing her can be identified .
22 This is the only type of stretching which should be carried out before exercise when the muscles are cold .
23 A time when ‘ the act of dreaming itself will be punished ’ ?
24 He said some of the cases should be dealt with soon so that the principles for deciding who should be granted asylum ‘ can emerge and be tested on appeal ’ .
25 Exports of toxic waste to other European or Third World countries were to be banned , except for some consignments destined for recycling which could be exported under licence from the EC Commission .
26 These ‘ subtle and difficult problems ’ ( cf. 6.3.1 ) are all associated with deciding what should be counted .
27 I would like to attempt to provoke you into asking what can be done with what we 've got .
28 AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project .
29 Depending on your employment situation and the length of time you have had away from nursing you may be asked to provide a character or employer 's reference .
30 In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed .
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