Example sentences of "[be] [det] [prep] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 2 | The steps of which particulars are given must be such as would justify an order for substituted service of a bankruptcy petition ( r 6.11(5) and ( 6 ) ) . |
| 3 | It is indeed an element of all three offences that the conduct must be such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness , present at the scene , to fear for his personal safety ; and yet it is provided , for each offence , that ‘ no person of reasonable firmness need actually be , or be likely to be , present at the scene ’ . |
| 4 | 10.4 Any design or instruction furnished or given by the Purchaser shall not be such as will cause the Seller to infringe any intellectual property rights . |
| 5 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 7 | Many accents of English also differ noticeably in intonation without the difference being such as would cause a difference in meaning ; some Welsh accents , for example , have a tendency for unstressed syllables to be higher in pitch than stressed syllables . |
| 8 | " Where I , or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them ( taken together ) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety , each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot . " |
| 9 | " Where three or more persons who are present together , use or threaten unlawful violence and the conduct of them ( taken together ) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety , each of the persons using or threatening violence is guilty of violent disorder . " |
| 10 | This is intended to penalise fighting in that " a person is guilty of affray if he uses or threatens violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety . " |
| 11 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety . ’ |
| 12 | The generous and charitable Spirit that appeared in her was exerted upon all Occasions to the utmost of her Ability , and was such as would have been ornamental in a much higher Sphere , to which in all Probability , if it had pleased God to spare her Life , her own Merit would have raised her |