Example sentences of "be [adj] unless [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But their solicitor says their chances are slim unless the law can be changed . |
| 2 | However , the statistical methods applied to the concept of a bounded area of land are dubious unless the shape of that area is taken into consideration and only those cemeteries within 100 m of parish boundaries were considered ( Reilly and Zambardino 1986 ) . |
| 3 | In any Open Door disagreement , the employee is assumed to be right unless the manager has impeccable documentation to the contrary . |
| 4 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 5 | It also argues that long-term environmental and economic sustainability may not be possible unless the government takes responsibility for detailed assessments of the flora and fauna of native forests , and for the effective monitoring of logging operations . |
| 6 | It would seem to follow from the proposed provision that he would certainly not be guilty unless the woman had a reasonable fear of immediate harm . |
| 7 | Thus , if you begin with a kick and land in a forward position , a second kick will be inadvisable unless the opponent has maintained a constant distance from you . |
| 8 | In America , if the media are n't interested in something , it wo n't get covered , and the media wo n't be interested unless the public is . |
| 9 | Generally no stamp duty will be payable unless the conveyance is one on sale ( or taking over of a mortgage liability ) not resulting from a court order or agreement made in connection with the divorce ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | In a big theatre performance will never be perfect unless the beat is understood more by the eyes than the ears , because sometimes the chorus is almost wholly in the wings , and almost always divided between two sides . |
| 11 | Evidence obtained in breach of this requirement will be inadmissible unless the court rules otherwise ( see Chapter 6 , 4 ) . |
| 12 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 13 | They had convinced him that no radical change in Defence policy would be negotiable unless the Minister of Defence was given greater powers to override the special pleading of the Admiralty , the War Office , the Air Ministry , and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 14 | Industry has already complained to the Department of the Environment that controls will not be effective unless the inspectorate is respected and cowboy companies are aware that they will be prosecuted . |
| 15 | The term ‘ deeds of family arrangement ’ is not now quite so appropriate because they are increasingly used as tax-planning vehicles , and they will continue to be effective unless the Government repeals those provisions in the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 that permit the variations . |
| 16 | The Transfer Regulations reverse the common law position which is that persons employed in that business will be redundant unless the vendor has other business in which they can be redeployed . |
| 17 | The more radical strategies will not be feasible unless the political climate of the organisation is conducive to major change . |
| 18 | It will be clear that the range will be short unless a powerful transmitter is used or the waves are directed to the listener in some way . |
| 19 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 20 | However , it will not be successful unless the objectives have been stated clearly and all the practical options considered . |
| 21 | A sophisticated package of services will be useless unless an underlying empathy has been demonstrated , and trust established by the social worker . |
| 22 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 23 | The recruitment of volunteer , contract armies could not have been successful unless the war had been widely popular . |
| 24 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 25 | The effect of housing developments is usually dismissed as being small unless the developments are very large — typical estimates are around one half a child aged 0–16 per household . |
| 26 | The system should assume that the top-rated candidates are correct unless the user chooses another of the existing candidates or enters an alternative word . |
| 27 | I realized then that no music is vulgar unless the performance makes it so . |
| 28 | Penetration of the vagina or anus by the penis is risky unless the man uses a condom . |
| 29 | The service is free unless the centre explains otherwise . |
| 30 | But such behaviour is not obviously threatening ( although it is almost certainly disorderly ) , and it may be doubted whether a conviction of the section 4 offence is proper unless the conduct complained of is such that it is likely to lead to further violence . |