Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] is [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the plaintiff has been found to have been contributorily negligent , his damages will be reduced by the proportion that he is found to be to blame for his damage . |
| 2 | Despite the serious limitations to a general theory equating anomaly and mystical danger , there is respectable if sometimes ambiguous psychological evidence that what is perceived to be unclassifiable ( and this is perhaps the crucial thing ) is cognitively and emotionally disturbing . |
| 3 | Again I can not believe of Jesus Christ that he is related to God in a way which is qualitatively different from that of all other human beings . |
| 4 | You get the feeling that nothing is left to chance . |
| 5 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |
| 6 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 7 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 8 | And here is William , medieval scholar , sitting on a park bench , a plaque on the back of which informs the enquiring public that it is dedicated to the memory of a Mrs C. M. Elliott who so loved … |
| 9 | Then , before each execution of the add instruction , we arrange to manipulate it as data in such a way that one is added to the address portion of the instruction ; thus the add instruction refers successively to store addresses 100,101,102 , and so on . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the interviewer becomes a cold clinical robot , but it does mean that he or she uses a particular instrument in the way that it is designed to be used — for objective study . |
| 11 | It is however a fundamental requirement of a review notice that it leaves the recipient in no doubt that it is intended to be the formal document invoking the landlord 's right to review the rent ( Schirlcar Properties Ltd v Heinitz ( 1983 ) 268 EG 362 ) . |
| 12 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 13 | Advance corporation tax is to be carried forward to the extent that it is expected to be recovered in the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) An instrument shall not be a deed unless — ( a ) it makes it clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed by the person making it , or , as the case may be , by the parties to it ( whether by describing itself as a deed or expressing itself to be executed or signed as a deed or otherwise ) ; and ( b ) it is validly executed as a deed by that person or , as the case may be , one or more of those parties . |
| 15 | The old form of the testimonium was usually as follows : IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused their common seals ( for corporations ) to be hereunto affixed the day and year first before written or IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have hereunto placed their hands and seals ( for individuals ) the day and year first before written Section 1 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 coupled with s 36A of the Companies Act 1985 have introduced changes to the execution of deeds by providing that a document shall not be a deed unless it is clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed . |
| 16 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 17 | It is well worth visiting and contains facsimiles of many fine and interesting manuscripts , but be prepared for the fact that it is geared to schools and is therefore rather didactic . |
| 18 | The petition must state : ( i ) the amount of the debt ( in sterling , converted from any foreign currency at the official exchange rate at the date of issue of the petition , by analogy with r 6.111 ) , the consideration for it ( or , if there is no consideration , the way in which it arises ) and the fact that it is owed to the petitioner ; ( ii ) when the debt was incurred or became due ; ( iii ) if the debt includes interest or any other charge accruing from time to time , the amount or rate of the charge ( separately identified ) and the grounds upon which it is claimed to form part of the debt provided that , in the case of a petition based upon a statutory demand , only the interest claimed in the demand is included ; ( iv ) that the debt is unsecured , and either that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable immediately and the debtor appears to be unable to pay it , or that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable at some certain future specified time and the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it . |
| 19 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 20 | Well , there is the fact that it is connected to sensory endings that are designed specifically to respond to vibrations in the air . |
| 21 | GSR as a measure can , of course , be criticised for the fact that it is known to be closely related to the subject 's expectancies and preparations for action . |