Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you think each of these-may be made difficult by the landforms and by the climate ? |
| 2 | The ‘ LOB-H ’ texts are business and government documents such as might be dictated to a speech input workstation . |
| 3 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 4 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 5 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 6 | This is caused by release of carbon dioxide , which gases off providing there is good water turbulence such as might be provided by a waterfall or venturi . |
| 7 | My impression — and without a full inquiry such as might be carried out by the social service inspectorate it can be little more — is that the assessment of the father and his partner had scarcely advanced . |
| 8 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 9 | He had , it seemed , no job and no future except such as might be offered by his own National Socialist League . |
| 10 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 11 | The purpose of this chapter is to give some hints on how to comment on tables such as might be found in government summary publications . |
| 12 | Erm you 're talking about people working outside in elements er you know , natural elements such as might be brought to bear in the month of January or February . |
| 13 | They have devised several ways of producing the required magnetic field , including a slotted busbar ( such as might be used in a power station ) around which the fibre can be wrapped . |
| 14 | The ideal screening system , such as might be used in antenatal clinics should utilize one of each sort of test so that a combination of sensitivity with selectivity can be obtained . |
| 15 | Their idea is to examine the feasibility of a one-step diagnostic to indicate the presence of a particular molecule , such as might be used to test for the presence of surfactant . |
| 16 | schemes restricted to an association of topics such as might be encountered in local collections in an industrial library or an archive . |
| 17 | It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the simulation is to be carried out by computer a way must be found of getting the computer to generate random sequences of numbers such as would be obtained by throwing a dice a number of times . |
| 19 | The significance of this is that the orbits of planets , like the earth , around the sun would be unstable : the least disturbance from a circular orbit ( such as would be caused by the gravitational attraction of other planets ) would result in the earth spiraling away from or into the sun . |
| 20 | All these cases are distinguishable from , and indeed , inapplicable to , the present , which appears to us to fall within the general rule , that a consideration past and executed will support no other promise than such as would be implied by law . |
| 21 | These instructions determine the citation order of the various concepts represented by the Schedules and the Tables and remove the need for facet indicators such as would be required were more flexibility of citation order permitted . |
| 22 | Intarsia is normally thought of only in terms of four-ply jumpers but is also effective using finer yarns such as would be used for the vest top or T-shirts . |
| 23 | For sons , on the other hand , socialization may be more in terms of broader , more stereotypical notions of masculinity such as may be manifested in horseplay at weekends or evenings , rather than in terms of the more specific feature of the father 's role at work , which may often be hidden from the male child . |
| 24 | ‘ 2(1) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , in any proceedings for contribution under section 1 above the amount of the contribution recoverable from any person shall be such as may be found by the court to be just and equitable having regard to the extent of that person 's responsibility for the damage in question . |
| 25 | If something drastic were not done , then British politics would drift into class antagonism such as could be observed in France . |
| 26 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 27 | This does not mean that it is the product of labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narration and the mastery of style ) but the very theatre of a production where the producer and reader of the text meet : the text ‘ works ’ , at each moment and from whatever side one takes it . |
| 28 | Barthes says the text is not ‘ the product of a labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narrative or a mastery of style ) ’ . |
| 29 | Second , gravitational data show that the maria are sites of excess mass called mascons such as could be produced by infill of an impact basin as follows . |
| 30 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |