Example sentences of "[indef pn] [that] [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
2 | There was nothing that would be exempted from rigorous examination . |
3 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
4 | It seemed there was nothing that could be done . |
5 | Lucille took a last look in the mirror , decided there was nothing that could be done to make herself any more elegant or beautiful , and so picked up her small bag that contained the precious pasteboard ticket . |
6 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |
7 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
8 | Pleasant as the round of meetings had been , there was next to nothing that could be agreed as a common objective for the final communiqué . |
9 | Nothing that could be labelled as a breach of client-confidentiality , but enough to engage her attention . |
10 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
11 | He turned to look at Myeloski , peering urgently out of the window as the traffic stacked up and made movement impossible , and knew that he had nothing in common with these people , nothing that could be shared because of his blood . |
12 | There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way . |
13 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
14 | There was nothing that could be adapted for lock-picking , not even a paperclip . |
15 | But Professor Alan Budd , chief economic adviser to Barclays Bank , said of the Government 's predicament : ‘ In the short run there is nothing that can be done . |
16 | If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment . |
17 | I think any feminist movement in Britain should take on board the fact that Ireland is a colony and the fact that there is a lot of denial that goes on , people pretending it is n't happening , and saying there 's nothing that can be done . |
18 | From the drafter 's point of view there is clearly nothing that can be done to save a clause rendered ineffective by the Act ; however , where a clause is subject to a test of reasonableness ( which will be more common in relation to clauses included in standard terms ) the drafter should try to ensure that the clause can satisfy the test . |
19 | He says the otters that have swallowed a lot of oil may be so ill there 's nothing that can be done . |
20 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
21 | Sam ( RH ) : We could just do a year and everything but … you see … everything that might be happening then . |
22 | Everything that could be turned upside down was upside down . |
23 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |
24 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
25 | Everything that could be made of iron was , from the churchyard fence and gates to the interior columns and arches , the window tracery and door frames , and even the pinnacles on the tower . |
26 | As the future was so uncertain , however , the family retained ownership of all fixtures , fittings and moveable contents — everything that could be stripped out if Thoresby were ever threatened with demolition . |
27 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
28 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
29 | Everything that could be dismantled , we carried in pieces on our person . |
30 | The Milanese turned to reconstruction with a will , deciding that everything that could be returned to an ‘ as before ’ condition should be . |