Example sentences of "the [det] [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be treading a tightrope — or at the least could be accused of insensitivity — were I to speak more of this particular sister-in-law . |
| 2 | Ireland provides distinct evidence that civilisation in the hands of the few must be maintained by exclusivity ( Irenius insists that any social contact between English and Irish be suppressed and expressly advocates forbidding the English the opportunity of learning Gaelic ) . |
| 3 | ( It is harder to see why γ should help α to resist a challenge by Β ) If the alternative strategies are ‘ resist only challenges to oneself , and ‘ resist any challenge ’ , the latter would be favoured by selection provided that it was usually advantageous . |
| 4 | Within this , the Soviet of the Union ( elected by the whole population from constituencies of equal population size ) would be subordinate to the Soviet of the Republics : the latter would be elected from the republican parliaments retaining the same number of seats as in the current Soviet of Nationalities but with a single block vote for each republic . |
| 5 | Your talk would be part of a morning session which would also include a presentation about bus stops and shelters and one about bus stations and termini ; the latter would be followed by a visit to Glenrothes Bus Station . |
| 6 | The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme . |
| 7 | In 1626 Charles I signed an agreement with Vermuyden for the drainage of Hatfield Chase , for which the latter would be awarded one-third of the land drained . |
| 8 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 9 | It concentrated upon Clinton 's advocacy of a " new covenant " between the government and the governed whereby the former would provide greater resources while the latter would be expected to shoulder greater responsibilities . |
| 10 | ( At that time even the most optimistic in the UUUC camp assumed that some of the latter would be returned . ) |
| 11 | The latter would be reported as normal by most clinical pathologists . |
| 12 | Contemporaries were well aware of this : " Were an inventory to be taken of household goods and furniture of a peasant or mechanic in France and of a peasant or mechanic in England , the latter would be found on average to exceed the former in value by at least three to one . " |
| 13 | Preparation for the latter may be regarded as a matter of self-training : it needs a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to all aspects of planning , one which covers curriculum and assessment , teaching , management and organization , finance and resources . |
| 14 | Another example is the need for co-ordination between national aid agencies and national export credit agencies , where the latter may be seeking to guarantee finance for , say , a large steel mill which is clearly out of line with national development priorities agreed in different agencies between the donors and recipient governments . |
| 15 | Copies of the leaflet about the latter may be obtained from Police HQ . |
| 16 | Copies of the leaflet about the latter may be obtained from Police Headquarters , Fettes . |
| 17 | * the budgetary planning and control process may be defined as the establishment of budgets which relate the responsibilities of departments and employees to the requirements of plans and policies ; and the continuous comparison of actual results with the budgeted targets , so that the latter may be achieved , or amendments made to the objectives upon which they were based . |
| 18 | Only the latter may be termed non-branching . |
| 19 | Tagliacozzo found that catalogue searchers were , " inclined to use proper names rather than other types of entry , even when the latter may be considered a better choice . " |
| 20 | Obviously , a bank will expect to receive loan interest plus , perhaps , a royalty on subsequent oil output for the additional risk incurred , although the latter might be reduced by obtaining agreements which contractually guarantee a market for resultant oil output . |
| 21 | However , just as the latter might be thought to have an intuitive grasp of affairs automotive which ought to be taken into account by anyone prone to theorising about the motor car , so it is conceivable that the way theoretical physicists regard the objects of their study might be a factor to be taken into account in assessing their significance . |
| 22 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 23 | The former damage will be viewed as the result of ‘ destructive hooliganism ’ and dealt with accordingly , whilst the latter will be seen as arising from an excess of good-natured high spirits and over-enthusiasm . |
| 24 | The latter will be handling all the MIPS ' systems business plus things like Microsoft NT . |
| 25 | The latter will be examined with respect to their beliefs about development and emotionality of their children and the social practices they engage in , with a view to examining how such social practices contribute to the acquisition of the emotions in questions . |
| 26 | The discussion should then focus around the inclusion of the foreman 's wages and whether the director 's salary should be included and whether the answer to the latter will be affected by the job description . |
| 27 | The latter will be shown at Erddig ( 5 August to 1 September ) , at the Davies Memorial Gallery ( 6 September to 6 October ) and at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff ( December to January ) . |
| 28 | There 's little that can be done about the former ( it 's a consequence of Improv 's structure ) but the latter will be addressed in a future release . |
| 29 | Not only are such predicates eliminable , it might be argued , but conceivably it might be possible to devise a method of paraphrase which would enable us to dispense with quantifiers as well ; and if the latter can be achieved , then the myth of the " logical independence " of existential propositions will have been exploded once and for all . |
| 30 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |