Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired .
2 The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing .
3 Indeed , a good strong stock needs to be able to get rid of all it has to push into the scion , without any hindrance .
4 The new car body weighed 9.55 tonnes , and the unladen weight of the complete car proved to be 17.29 tonnes .
5 In Pahl 's well-known expression , local political research came to be concerned with ‘ Who gets the scarce resources and facilities ?
6 This presents a major obstacle , in so far as the would-be acquirer needs to be able to calculate the attitude of a target company 's owners to an offer , given that the management will often be uncooperative .
7 If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) .
8 By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks .
9 And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ?
10 The funerary archaeologist has to be certain of the differences between desiccation and chemical preservation : embalming .
11 It is not surprising that a PC which can help to design a ship , a skyscraper or an electronic circuit has to be one of the most powerful available .
12 German influence continued to be dominant as the discussions continued .
13 And in Britain the proportions of them who depend on social assistance seem to be higher than anywhere else .
14 As the stone free interval proved to be one of the most important predictive factors for gall stone recurrence , this imbalance introduced a potential bias towards a greater recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid group , than in the placebo group .
15 The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads .
16 The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World .
17 If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do !
18 The hon. Gentleman continues to be amused .
19 The hon. Gentleman seemed to be unaware of the great progress being made in building an independent and renewable sector in electricity .
20 AT LEAST two ex-members of MICRODISNEY have this week publicly pledged their support to a newly-founded organisation dedicated to being obscure and not getting within sniffing distance of the Top 75 .
21 For some years direct taxation ceased to be contentious , and much the bitterest arguments in the 1340s arose over the taxation of wool and the king 's manipulation of the wool trade to raise money for the war .
22 On the most general level Foucault 's society of normalisation is in danger of being as rigidly functional , tending towards a necessary social equilibrium , as Talcott Parsons ' , particularly as both the resistances and the individual internalisations are not specified : social control seems to be absolute .
23 To meet the challenges of the European single market , he said , the Scottish economy had to be international in outlook , diverse and efficient .
24 While such wilful ignorance prevailed it is not surprising that pacifist opposition to Sir Edward Grey 's foreign policy tended to be episodic and dominated by side issues .
25 This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes .
26 Capital both economic and symbolic appears as an investment open to calculation , and social hierarchy tends to be reducible to these two main linear strands through which capital can be exploited in social positioning .
27 The accompanying letter needs to be personal and brief and should certainly not be sycophantic or name dropping .
28 The risk of sexual transmission seems to be low when compared with hepatitis B virus , HIV , and other sexually transmitted diseases .
29 My impression , based solely on those farmers whom I have met , is that the supporters of Free Presbyterianism tended to be small to medium farmers running family operations with only one or two labourers .
30 In an interview the social worker needs to be able to start a conversation with someone in difficulty , who has a problem or need , and explore the matter in such a way that it seems the worker has the feel of the situation , and a grasp of the main facts .
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