Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Where possible an indication should be given of the sub-system(s) and program(s) that are likely to be affected by the change .
2 Coun Dixon said where possible the council would consider introducing hard standing areas where people had no alternative for parking their cars .
3 Where possible the analyst must identify and investigate detailed results .
4 If the ‘ closed ’ style of management described above is already a problem in many schools , then there are a great many more where such a style might permeate the existing decision-making process once delegated budgets are in place .
5 An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another .
6 This is the basis of ‘ critical-path analysis ’ where such a network can be analysed .
7 The Act had the effect of penalising extremely crude forms of racial abuse where such an intention could reasonably easily be inferred because of the overtness of the language or conduct in question .
8 Set up Connie Fraser where all the world could see her , but not talk to her .
9 Now equations ( 9.92 ) and ( 9.93 ) show that an open or short-circuited line of length less than half a wavelength can provide any desired reactance or susceptance .
10 In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded .
11 The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas .
12 For any given solution of this equation , a function M can always be found satisfying the remaining equations ( 6.22b , c , f ) , although such a function may not satisfy the required boundary conditions .
13 Settlement was denser in some areas than in others , although such a division may only be recognised , as suggested by Peter Fowler , from late Bronze Age times onwards .
14 It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes .
15 All studies convert the measured activity to a concentration , although such a conversion may be inaccurate because of the unknown activity coefficient ( variation in ionic strength and effects of bile salts anions ) .
16 However , although such a study might permit some comparison of different schemes , this pragmatic approach would not provide the parameters for comparison ; nor , indeed , would it identify any criteria that classification schemes should meet .
17 By the time he was seven he had ‘ perfect pitch ’ ; he could also improvise on the keyboard in various styles , play with the keys hidden under a cloth , sight-read anything he was given , add a bass line to a tune , and had ‘ taught himself ’ the violin ( although such a claim should perhaps be treated with some scepticism — his father after all was a violin teacher ) .
18 Although such a statement might seem to be stating the obvious , apparently a number of mutual insurance companies and other regulated enterprises , whose financial statements are prepared on the basis of statutory accounting rules , have been stating that they conform with GAAP even though the statutory rules and GAAP differ .
19 Any attempt to frame a definition along these lines , however , would run aground because , although such a definition could be made fairly general , it would not discriminate sharply enough to provide a guarantee of hyponymy :
20 Although such an approach may appeal to those interested in the operation of machines as historical artifacts and in some cases is vital to ability to ‘ read ’ those files which technology has already passed-by ( a classic example being the maintenance of punch card readers to process the already long-forgotten decks of eighty-column cards currently being rediscovered in the corners of filing cabinets , broom cupboards and the like ) , a more efficient strategy is to be found in the transfer of machine-readable files to a hardware and software independent format .
21 In terms of professional development the UK lags somewhat behind , having no fully recognised body of interpreters ( although such an organisation may now be close to recognition ) and , as far as we can make out , only one full-time interpreter in the whole country .
22 Sommerlad might well have added that , although such an idea might have been anathema at home , nothing prevented the colonial authorities from publishing newspapers in Tanganyika , Kenya , the Rhodesias , Sierra Leone and many of the French territories .
23 High-cost patients would have their higher costs met by the district — patients who cost more than 5,000 a year would have the extra met by the district initially .
24 These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare .
25 However , in keeping with the somewhat critical approach adopted in Chapter 1 , and because we also wish to indicate how our studies might be put upon a set-theoretical base ( the soundness of which is the concern of set-theorists ) we propose definitions rather more formal than many a reader might expect .
26 When a form is used in a context it eliminates the meanings possible to that context other than those the form can signal : the context eliminates from consideration the meanings possible to the form other than those the context can support .
27 When a form is used in a context it eliminates the meanings possible to that context other than those the form can signal : the context eliminates from consideration the meanings possible to the form other than those the context can support .
28 More than most the government will want the 1991 district council elections to be an almost nationwide referendum on its record in office .
29 If Chlothild waited from the 490s until 523 the feud can not have been uppermost in her mind .
30 If possible the therapist should make their own tape of relaxation instructions which assists in the transfer of the skills from the therapy session to the home situation .
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