Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possible fix is to use the /P switch which prompts you ( Y/N ) for each file about to be restored . |
| 2 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 4 | Second , there was a marked trend for ( female ) referrals by GPs subsequently considered to be primarily about social relationships not to be sectioned . |
| 5 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 6 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 7 | It is not unusual for this situation now to be recognised officially , and many authorities have the positions of the leaders included in their Standing Orders , sometimes , for instance , making them ex-officio members of all committees and sub-committees of the Council . |
| 8 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |
| 9 | This substantially overturned the original interpretation of the Act and placed the ‘ rights ’ of fishermen to kill dolphins above the rights of marine mammals not to be harassed and destroyed . |
| 10 | There was plenty of old business still to be settled . |
| 11 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 12 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 13 | Since the 1981 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) came into force in 1983 , children assessed as having special educational needs are given an individual ‘ statement ’ of these needs instead of being assigned to a category of handicap ( see Chapter 3 , 1978 Warnock ) . |
| 14 | It is safe to say that Hans Haacke is the least likely of all artists ever to be commissioned to design a presidential memorial ( though one day he may himself be memorialised as founder of the Academy of Anti-Establishment Art ) . |
| 15 | A real mountain bastu is one of those experiences not to be missed , and all you could want after a hard day 's toil , a wonderful relaxant . |
| 16 | The module manager may inhibit deletion in the interim period by introducing a package into the database to explicitly select the issues of any module not to be removed or by making the module versions ‘ preferred ’ ( see Module Version Deletion Rules below ) . |
| 17 | After all these months of forward movement only to be expected . |
| 18 | They say that a release is on the cards this week er they make no mention of any ransom and they say Terry Waite is a priority for release ; he is at the top of a list of Western hostages about to be set free . |
| 19 | Brian Jacksons wrote eloquently about the still frequently thwarted aspirations of young fathers today to be different from the invisible or authoritarian men they remember their own fathers as having been . |
| 20 | The motorway ran out at Bergues , leaving twenty-two kilometres of main road still to be negotiated . |
| 21 | Some , of course , deny that such purity of method is possible but few would argue with the proposition that where a description of law is coloured by the expositor 's own values it is a virtue for these values explicitly to be registered . |
| 22 | But representatives from AFHQ were to visit Eighth Army on 25 May , which would give an opportunity for these conflicts finally to be resolved . |
| 23 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |
| 24 | Delegations were dispatched to London ‘ as nation to nation ’ , armies were regarded as provincial forces not to be sacrificed either to the needs of neighbouring provinces or to those of the nation . |
| 25 | 1st round 2nd round Total ( Feb. 24 ) ( March 4-10 ) Communist Party of Lithuania ( independent ) 27 13 40 Lithuanian Communist Party ( CPSU platform ) 4 1 5 Social Democratic Party 9 0 9 Green Party 2 2 4 Democratic Party 0 3 3 Christian Democratic Party 2 0 2 Humanism and Progress Party 0 0 0 Independents 46 24 70 Total 90 ( 72 ) ** 43 ( 20 ) ** 133* ( 92 ) * Results with eight seats still to be decided . |
| 26 | TWO ombudsman schemes came under strong criticism today for being too slow dealing with complaints . |
| 27 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 28 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 29 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 30 | I weep for Barrow 's prospects were there conceivably any change in Government , because the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has said that the Opposition would replace a cancelled fourth boat with equivalent work only to be denounced by his own candidate in Barrow who used the words ’ ignorant and ill-informed ’ . |