Example sentences of "that [modal v] [be] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I might suggest three stages that should be considered as a route to achieving this goal . |
| 2 | In particular , the operation of the Social Fund — a benefit offered as a loan — often calls for social workers to provide support for a particular case , given the limited budget of the fund and the rationing that must be applied as a result . |
| 3 | People will ask , ’ Are they more concerned with their politics than with recommendations that must be implemented as a matter of urgency ? ’ |
| 4 | Should a man 's life succeed in influencing and converting others then that might be regarded as a true and valid form of evangelism . |
| 5 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 6 | Hitachi Ltd 's open systems division is rumoured to be working on a deal with Sun Microsystems Inc to use Sparc RISC boards running Solaris that 'll be used as a front-end , handing off network data to its OSF/1-based mainframes . |
| 7 | Pleasant as the round of meetings had been , there was next to nothing that could be agreed as a common objective for the final communiqué . |
| 8 | And as she spoke , Mrs Denham , in the garden below , suddenly leaped to her feet , and started gathering up her things ; they could not catch what she was saying , but she seemed faintly agitated , and Martin too got to his feet , though not with any movement that could be described as a leap , and appeared to offer , though ineffectively , to help with his baby . |
| 9 | In any case , the British hoped for an American-British-Dominions agreement that could be used as a basis on which to invite other countries to a conference . |
| 10 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 11 | Here are a few ideas : pick up anything that could be used as a baton , not too short and not too long — a piece of wood , a length of metal , a strong branch , a short piece of scaffolding or part of a wooden fence would do . |
| 12 | He declared that his new government would not " create another condition that could be used as a pretext to overthrow it " . |
| 13 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 14 | Nothing that could be labelled as a breach of client-confidentiality , but enough to engage her attention . |
| 15 | But if they were sold through a charity shop in the High Street that would be seen as a business . ’ |
| 16 | The author has developed an iterative method of calculating the synonym percentages that would be expected as a result of loading buckets of various capacities to a range of packing densities . |
| 17 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 18 | As we shall see , the object for Lévi-Strauss 's anthropology and Barthes 's semiology is a social form that can be analysed as a language ( kinship systems , myth ) . |
| 19 | The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit . |
| 20 | A graphical subsystem enables the import of close-up pictures of a device and its sub-elements that can be defined as a mouse-sensitive area . |
| 21 | When aurichalcite ( Cu 5-x Zn x ( OH ) 6 ( Co 3 ) 2 ) is heated to 450°C it converts into a copper-on-zinc oxide material that can be prepared as a catalyst for the water-gas shift reaction ( CO 2 + H 2 CO + H 2 O ) . |
| 22 | being able to get into a room that can be used as a bedroom , either upstairs or downstairs , |
| 23 | The chemical information is distributed in the form if direct output from the program , avoiding transcription errors , and is in a form that can be used as a direct input into another computer for additional processing . |
| 24 | They do not have an agreed criterion of perfection that can be used as a principle for choosing between instructions . |
| 25 | I always start new ribber knitters off with a very simple band that can be used as a neckband for round or V-necks , or even as a welt , where the welt is knitted separately to the garment . |
| 26 | There are very simple slip stitch patterns that can be used as a mock garter stitch if you do n't have a garter carriage . |
| 27 | This is , in short , an entirely successful CD , and one of those rare recordings that can be described as a monument to the art of playing the piano . |
| 28 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 29 | Only the master of the house has a room that can be described as a personal sanctum , because he alone ( it would seem ) has to spend his mornings ‘ more or less … in practical affairs ’ . |
| 30 | But hers is not a detached examination — she writes of her belief that ‘ action makes a difference ’ and outlines some of the possible practical steps that can be taken as a result of her ( and others ' ) analysis . |