Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 2 | Daniel Defoe describes the Fens shrouded in fog , through which nothing could be seen ‘ but now and then the lanthorn or cupola of Ely Minster ’ . |
| 3 | The danger of over-embalming is not there because these fluids are designed to be mixed , not like old fashioned fluids with which nothing could be mixed except some Fairy Liquid for lanolin content . |
| 4 | The things which were there were the objects by which someone might be identified . |
| 5 | I enclose a wooden varnished toy which I would be obliged if you would examine and test under the above Regulations . |
| 6 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 7 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 8 | Any which are sent to er , which of course would be the only way in which I could be contacted , |
| 9 | In fact there are very few goods that are pure public goods ; that is , goods that yield benefits from which nobody can be excluded and for which the amount the individual can consume does not diminish as the number of consumers increases . |
| 10 | However , the outbound timing must be adjusted as necessary to comply with a time at which you may be cleared to leave the holding point . |
| 11 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay for death or injury to other persons or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any motor cycle which your certificate of motor insurance permits you to drive or use . |
| 12 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay in connection with your caravan and the plot on which your caravan is situated together with any fences , hedges , posts or chains around the plot resulting in |
| 13 | the amount of any redundancy payment or unfair dismissal ‘ basic award ’ to which you may be entitled ; |
| 14 | If you plan to defer your pension , you should also defer any graduated pension to which you may be entitled — or you risk losing the increases you would otherwise obtain . |
| 15 | Therefore , when calculating how much tax you will have to pay in any one year , you should first deduct from your total income the amount represented by your personal allowance ( plus any additional or other tax allowance to which you may be entitled , see sections following ) . |
| 16 | The above allowance is inclusive of any Statutory Sick Pay to which you may be entitled . |
| 17 | Since the scheme only started in 1978 , the current maximum amount of additional pension to which you would be entitled is £66.97 a week . |
| 18 | The annual sum which you might be asked to pay depends on the degree for which you are studying or the topic of your research . |
| 19 | The Mortgage Indemnity Guarantee is a charge for which you should be prepared when you take out your loan if it is for more than 70 or 80 per cent of the property 's value . |
| 20 | There are more stunning views from the pretty dining room in which you will be served typical Italian food , and you can relax with a large drink in the small lounge bar . |
| 21 | In the unlikely event that matters can not be resolved to your satisfaction in the resort , the Representative will ask you to record details of any problems on a Holiday Report Form , of which you will be given a copy , and you must then follow up your report by writing to the Customer Relations Department at our Birmingham Head Office ( quoting the numbers of your Holiday Reference and Holiday Report forms ) within 42 days of returning from resort . |
| 22 | ‘ Some of what you have told us will have to go into a statement which you will be asked to sign . |
| 23 | The minister will also give you details of the fees which you will be expected to pay . |
| 24 | As a returner , these are the skills in which you will be expected to be competent before being allowed to return to practice . |
| 25 | Once you have agreed , this will be written into a contract which you will be required to sign . |
| 26 | ‘ Cricket must now be the only sport in which you can be punished for the same offence twice and , who knows , maybe three times if he appeals ! |
| 27 | Talk about your feelings with them and that will help you decide if you 're going to need some professional help to come through this experience which is very common and in which you can be helped , no matter what you may feel at the time . |
| 28 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 29 | This exploitation will disappear since , as we have seen , its basis is private property which itself will be abolished . |
| 30 | This involves estimating such factors as new household formation ( which itself can be affected by housing supply and prices ) , the rate of slum clearance , the role of improvements and major repairs to existing houses , and the geographic shift of jobs , retirement migration , second homes , and improved housing standards . |