Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] to [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The severity of this is mitigated ( for the sake of the clients ) by the permitted recovery by a solicitor whose practising certificate has lapsed of moneys paid or due to be paid on behalf of a client . |
| 2 | It seemed typical of previous British offers : so vague as to be almost meaningless or free to be interpreted in innumerable ways . |
| 3 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 4 | Suffering is used in this sense in s1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 which provides that where a plaintiff 's expectation of life has been reduced the court in awarding damages for pain and suffering shall take into account the suffering caused or likely to be caused by awareness that his expectation of life has been so reduced . |
| 5 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 6 | Children — Care proceedings — Threshold conditions — Child in voluntary care placed with foster parents — Child previously at risk with mother — Local authority seeking care order — Whether condition that child ‘ is suffering ’ significant harm satisfied — Whether harm attributable to care given or likely to be given to child if order not made — Children Act 1989 ( c. 41 ) , s. 31(2) |
| 7 | ‘ that the harm , or likelihood of harm , is attributable to — ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; … |
| 8 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 9 | He must be careful that the new rules he lays down fit well enough with rules established by others or likely to be established in the future that the total set of rules will work together and make the situation better rather than pulling in opposite directions and making it worse . |
| 10 | In contrast to this is the " new " demand for temporary workers said to be experienced , or likely to be experienced on an increasing scale , by enterprises in the manufacturing sector . |
| 11 | These include the effect on exports from the UK , and regional unemployment , as well as a ‘ catch-all ’ gateway ( b ) : restrictions may be permitted which would confer on the public as purchasers , consumers or users of any goods or services , other specific and substantial benefits or advantages enjoyed or likely to be enjoyed by them as such . |
| 12 | Open years are syndicate years of account for which liabilities are too huge or unpredictable to be reinsured into a successor account . |
| 13 | Despite the limitations of the horizontal loom , it is eminently suited to the nomads ' way of life , being both easy to assemble and take down , and not too large or cumbersome to be carried by donkey or camel . |
| 14 | When the Thrale children played games he participated — racing them barefoot , or pleased to be cast as the elephant in their zoo of animals . |
| 15 | Section 7 provides simply that ‘ The decisions of the Tribunal ( including any decisions as to their jurisdiction ) shall not be subject to appeal or liable to be questioned in any court . ’ |
| 16 | On an application the court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application whether the question arises between members or alleged members , or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand , and may decide ‘ any question necessary or expedient to be decided for rectification … . ’ |
| 17 | So , only if the trade union representatives were not , whether actually or in effect , appointed by the union or , if appointed by it were neither accountable to it nor liable to be dismissed by it would that difficulty be avoided , at least in principle . |
| 18 | Janette Richardson 's commentary on animal imagery in the Shipman 's Tale , and that to be found in the Miller 's and Reeve 's Tales ( next chapter ) ) and sterile intellectualism ; between the worlds of sensory experience and high auctoritee . |
| 19 | There is , however , some conflict between detail provided by Gregory in his Histories and that to be found in his other works ; moreover earlier evidence is at odds both with specific points in the Histories , and also with their general interpretation , which sees Clovis 's reign as the manifestation of divine support granted to the king after his conversion . |
| 20 | Hardly then , though it did cross Frederica 's mind that sex inhibited talk and that to be talked to by Alexander was a pleasure not readily to be forgone . |
| 21 | In England , a Scots Magistrate at Bow Street ordered that bagpipes were a noisy instrument and unsuitable to be played in Regent Street . |
| 22 | There was little she was free to tell him , but he was very interested in what she said and sorry to be interrupted by his telephone . |
| 23 | If a single phrase of Beethoven 's ninth symphony is sufficiently distinctive and memorable to be abstracted from the context of the whole symphony , and used as the call-sign of a maddeningly intrusive European broadcasting station , then to that extent it deserves to be called one meme . |
| 24 | The matter had gone quiet since summer 1991 , but is due now to burst forth again , this time with the real substance of the evidence from all parties , as a consequence of an opinion given 3 December last by Judge Carol Huff in the New York Supreme Court and due to be confirmed in a Court Order last month . |
| 25 | SCOTVEC 's new Quality Framework , announced last year and due to be implemented in August , will make it possible for centres to take devolved responsibility for a range of quality assurance processes . |
| 26 | Germany 's particular concern was the 275,000 Soviet troops still stationed there and due to be withdrawn by the end of 1994 . |
| 27 | And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year . |
| 28 | Continuing disagreement between the United States and the European Communities ( EC ) , on the issue of agricultural subsidies , threatened to obstruct the conclusion of the current " Uruguay Round " of multilateral trade negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , under way for four years and due to be finalized by the end of December [ see pp. 36508-09 ; 36605 ; 37227-28 ; 37476 ] . |
| 29 | The Australian government announced they would not sign the Antarctic Minerals Convention , designed to control any mineral exploitation there and due to be signed by all nations claiming territory there . |
| 30 | He is at present in exile in Magadan and due to be released in December 1984 . |