Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not in all cases be sufficient to advise a client that the action which he desires to take is not possible under the existing law ; circumstances may arise in which the proper answer is that if the law does not allow the action to be taken then the law itself should be changed . |
| 2 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 3 | We ca n't use the actual mark , or quality of answere as the standard , we must stick with whatever the 50th child gets . |
| 4 | At this point we must look at what the loan and muster books have to say , although the examples cover a more limited range . |
| 5 | Again the prosecution must rely on what the driver tells them or on written instructions and , in rare cases , on admissions by the employer . |
| 6 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 7 | but , but then we are con , if the argument on the one hand is we should conform to what the government 's saying and I 'm saying that 's what the government says as one of the general areas we should address I ca n't be wrong both ways if you follow my drift ? |
| 8 | I think that a case might arise in which the reputation of a local authority might be damaged , so as to impair its function for the public good , in which no private individual was defamed ; and in which the public interest would be served by the taking of proceedings for libel by the local authority in order to determine the falsity of the charge . |
| 9 | We 're going to have a look at the , the benefits and the , the objectives of planning , and what you should be considering and talking about with peo , with other people you share your life with , your partners and things , and then we 'll look at the id , the ingredients of a plan , then we 'll look at what the company 's going to provide for you , to help you plan . |
| 10 | Counter-cultures may and do emerge and establish themselves ; ‘ legitimation crises ’ may occur in which the prevailing cultural norms lose their persuasive force and political domination is endangered ( Habermas , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | And most were convinced that if there was any one person who could testify to what the pop goddess looked like on waking up , it would be Jason . |
| 12 | He said that he too had lost an election ; he had felt very bad when the people of new York rejected him , and he could empathize with what the Shah now felt . |
| 13 | It could lead to what the theologians have called ‘ Modalism ’ , as though God disclosed himself in these three successive modes or forms — forms which do not correspond to any differences in his own nature , but are merely adopted for our benefit . |
| 14 | As a result , what amounts to obstruction may depend on what the policeman is seeking to do . |
| 15 | It may correspond to what the Lahey Clinic group has called ‘ chronic ’ pouchitis . |
| 16 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 17 | A situation would arise in which the very order which is the objective of law would have to be violated in order to achieve that objective , and this is unacceptable since international law is not an end in itself , but an instrument to be justified largely by its contribution to the limitation of violence . |
| 18 | In doing so the law would concentrate on what the accused dishonestly achieved or attempted to achieve and not on the means — taking or otherwise — which he used in order to do so . |
| 19 | and we want prints we would decide on what the most economic way of getting them is . |
| 20 | It would depend on what the meat inspector says . |
| 21 | The take-up of NVQ 's would depend on what the industry wanted , and large companies might decide on NVQ 's and not be interested in the Institute 's training and examinations . |
| 22 | I shall come to what the Audit Commission has said . |
| 23 | When the cards were , from the er , the workshop would come in which the lads had done their work , I mean , one of them , I know dear old Pete , in particular , he 'd write for crome , C R double O M , because that 's how he 'd say it . |
| 24 | Sometimes I would put in what the weather was like , if there was a storm or something unusual . |
| 25 | Is democracy a means of bringing about that the people shall consent to what the government proposes to do , or that the government shall do what the people want ? |
| 26 | Business is scheduled to grow by 7 ½ per cent by March 1994 , and BR admits prices ‘ will relate to what the market will bear . ’ |
| 27 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 28 | Very dark halls with little or no natural light will benefit from what the Americans call ‘ Plugmold ’ . |
| 29 | How many people will benefit from what the Minister has just announced ? |
| 30 | Grading — Mark Segal and Brenda Nicholson will send a questionnaire to members to discover their views and will look at what the Union position has been in the past . |