Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 2 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 3 | ( a ) No award may be made where the amount is less than £275 . |
| 4 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 5 | HAVING long admired The Cricketers ‘ Who 's Who , edited annually by Ian Sproat , MP , I am pleased that The Cricketer is now and henceforward to be associated in its promotion with Lennard , the publishers . |
| 6 | The Northern Ireland Secretary , Sir Patrick Mayhew , stated after a detailed review : " I am satisfied that the UDA is actively and primarily engaged in the commission of criminal , terrorist acts and so merits proscription . " |
| 7 | A theatre packed with enthusiasts , including more than 140 critics from all over the West , shows that the company is just as appreciated by the rest of the world , too . |
| 8 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 9 | Another powerful boat , it has been designed with an optional asymmetric spinnaker so that the bowsprit is there when the training need arises . |
| 10 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 11 | What has happened , therefore , is a transfer of production from the field to the factory floor , so that the field is now but one stage of the production-line process . |
| 12 | The inexorable logic does not , however , establish that the result is morally or socially desirable . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been said that I am a much improved player this season ’ , Hamilton says , ‘ but I believe that the difference is merely that I am that much more confident . |
| 14 | Those members of MI5 who have written or spoken publicly about their work say quite clearly that the directive is consistently and deliberately ignored . |
| 15 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 16 | In very bad cases this leads to the curious result that the distortion is more than 100 per cent . |
| 17 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 18 | Mix them with a small amount of water until the colour is even and the paint is of a smooth , creamy consistency . |
| 19 | Its berries are brownish-red but usually do n't appear until the tree is well and truly mature — hence , I suppose , the confusion about its gender . |
| 20 | In order to fit the result of selecting two decimal digits ( a maximum value of 99 ) into a range of twenty storage positions , 20 is subtracted repetitively from the two digits until the result is less than 20 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless if the patient is mentally and emotionally unaffected but has , for example , a pain somewhere , then the details of the pain will make up the whole case , or ‘ totality ’ as it is called , for which a similar remedy must be found . |
| 22 | If the total is less than 16,000 save as one design . |
| 23 | If the consideration is less than £60,000 and the property already has registered title , the PD Form should be sent to HM Land Registry with the application for registration of the transfer . |
| 24 | If the consideration is less than £60,000 and the property already has registered title , the PD Form should be sent to HM Land Registry with the application for registration of the transfer ( see The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1985 ( SI No 1688 ) ) . |
| 25 | ( a ) Stamp duty Where there has been a conveyance or transfer on sale a PD Form will be required ; if the consideration is less than £60,000 and the property already has registered title , the PD Form should be sent to HM Land Registry with the application for registration of the transfer ( the Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1985 ( SI No 1688 ) ) . |
| 26 | If the kitchen is nearly or directly below your bedroom , or if you live in a flat , you 'd be well advised to look for a quiet machine . |
| 27 | If the result is less than 16,000 then go ahead and save as one complete design . |
| 28 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 29 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |
| 30 | However if the target is less than fourteen steps from the original position the appropriate number of look.up table entries can be deleted , starting with the short.delay values . |