Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from political bias or influence and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community , or with any other matter than the Defence of the Realm as a whole . |
| 2 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 3 | Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought . |
| 4 | As we set out I wonder if I can be allowed more miracles and how the rest of my family and fellow pilgrims will be affected . |
| 5 | I think I can be excused this week cos thi , the wife 's away . |
| 6 | Once established , the pancakes and solid sheet ice are subject to lifting by swell , which may be generated many miles away in open water , and to lateral pressures from winds ; sections split into floes which raft over each other , or form pressure ridges along their edges . |
| 7 | The languages offered are French ( post ‘ A ’ level ) , Spanish ( post ‘ A ’ level ) and German ( which may be taken either post ‘ A ’ level or ab initio ) . |
| 8 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 9 | The Helsinki process should be institutionalised straight away with the formation of an Environmental Security Council which should be given some legislative powers as soon as possible . |
| 10 | And this is a matter which must be given some weight in decision when you combine it with the other factors also which we have gone through today . |
| 11 | Basically , the taxpayers are facing possibly ‘ bad ’ law which makes no provision for the special facts of their own case — which must be repeated many times elsewhere , particulary in , say , Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | The sound of a slammed door and the pitter patter sound of a girl running for her life , were the only sounds which could be heard that frosty , November morning . |
| 13 | Tom brought in a wheeled trolley on which would be kept all medical equipment and Faye 's daily self-monitoring charts as well as new medical charts recording blood-pressure and other observations . |
| 14 | One would predict according to Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) that it is the temporal order which would be altered most . |
| 15 | A pattern of events was established which would be observed several times throughout the 1980s : a degree of liberalisation , student activism , then the ‘ anti-bourgeois ’ backlash . |
| 16 | A new category of institution , the polytechnic , would be created — mostly by mergers of existing colleges — to serve as the flagship of the public-sector fleet and in which would be concentrated most of the advanced work of that sector . |
| 17 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 18 | Moreover Tao claims to have found substantial funding and board-level interest from some of the biggest Japanese computer and electronics companies , the identities of which will be announced this summer . |
| 19 | Moreover Tao claims to have found substantial funding and board-level interest from some of the biggest Japanese computer and electronics companies , the identities of which will be announced this summer . |
| 20 | Gloucestershire county council is preparing it 's own case for control , which will be submitted this summer . |
| 21 | The five-minute dance films , two of which will be shown each night , may pick up an uncommitted audience . |
| 22 | Decide on the width of the scallops and allow approximately 4cm ( 1 ½in ) per space , ( which will be divided either side of each pleat when making up ) . |
| 23 | Whereas in the past technological developments led to the emergence of new occupational groups , often with some measure of occupational control and , in the most recent past , usually making claims to some professional standing ( for example , the rise of the various branches of traditional engineering ) , we argue that in the future it is likely that employers will try to ensure that new jobs do not lead to the creation of new occupations as such , and especially not new occupations which will be allowed any measure of occupational control . |
| 24 | For the Institute , with the spring comes our National Conference , which will be held this year on Wednesday 4 March at the London Hilton Hotel , Park Lane . |
| 25 | This requires the user to enter a unique name , together with a valid charge code so that LIFESPAN can determine where to store its copy of the package , and a filename which will be used each time the package is transferred to or from LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample . |
| 27 | The general form of their relationship has been expressed in Hammond 's cognitive continuum , on which can be mapped any of the processes by which we gain knowledge of our environment . |
| 28 | But now after the Fall , they are equivocal , ambivalent , with a potential which can be turned either way . |
| 29 | He 's the last guy in the world who should be given such power . |
| 30 | SIR , It is the fans of Everton Football Club who should be given most sympathy . |