Example sentences of "to be [verb] beyond " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 2 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 3 | For a selected core , employment guarantees are very much an informal bargain as Japanese labour law forbids work contracts to be extended beyond one year . |
| 4 | Hardy provides a good example of a wider kind of practical response to a perceived shift of " taste " , and with the need to develop forms of English teaching of sufficient flexibility to be extended beyond the traditional narrow student elite . |
| 5 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 6 | ( e ) when negotiations or discussions between the offeror and the target are about to be extended beyond a very small group of people ( ie the persons in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) . |
| 7 | The full technical instructions on the can stated that the contents ought not to be applied beyond a recommended stage of crop growth as damage might result to the crop . |
| 8 | ‘ Our conclusion is these weak spots have to be strengthened beyond belief or the embankments moved back . ’ |
| 9 | These formal devices enable cultural heritage to be maintained beyond the lives of single individuals and offset what Goody sees as the ephemeral nature of ‘ face-to-face ’ communication . |
| 10 | The main Viking field is earmarked for abandonment between 1997 and 2000 but major investment is necessary if the transportation system is to be maintained beyond that time frame , said Butler . |
| 11 | The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was ruled by the courts and finally by the House of Lords to be acting beyond its powers in lowering its public transport fares in the Fares fair' campaign of the early 1980s . |
| 12 | The travel agencies were not prepared to take Reichsmarks for journeys to be made beyond the German frontier . |
| 13 | He looked puzzled , and seemed to be looking beyond Lesley-Jane into the wings . |
| 14 | There are no grounds for anticipating that public funds available to the Council for supporting the activities of governing bodies of sport are likely to be increased beyond existing levels . |
| 15 | Reduction to be increased beyond the existing fifty percent to eighty percent for the most needy . |
| 16 | It it 's to be expanded beyond that , we need to find ways of storing power produced on blowy days to use when it 's calm . |
| 17 | Tazieff maintains , however , that there is no contamination or any release of radio activity from underground testing , and that it is ‘ scientifically impossible ’ for radio active debris to be spread beyond Mururoa by storms . |
| 18 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 19 | Although there was some doubt as the validity of automatic crystallisation provisions , the matter seems to be settled beyond dispute by the judgment of Hoffman J. in Re Brightlife Ltd . |
| 20 | Individual essays demonstrate the extent to which the constituent discourses of work have to be located beyond the economic sphere . |
| 21 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 22 | Now if I can just refer as I did in my earlier submission to the possible results of that , I suggested that the requirement for the new settlement to be located beyond the outer boundary of the green er York greenbelt , should be rolled into criterion one , the need to avoid the greenbelt . |
| 23 | This means a case does not have to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt . |
| 24 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |