Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pursuers then concluded a contract for the purchase of the house but subsequently raised an action of damages against the defenders , based on negligence , in which they averred that there were many patent defects in the house which should have been apparent to surveyors of ordinary competence exercising reasonable care . |
| 2 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 3 | Much of what Patsy told her on that important morning , must have been therapeutic to Patsy , baffling to Shanti , and much of it unknown to me . |
| 4 | And he waited , and then he heard one word come back , spoken in a whisper , she must have been close to sleep . |
| 5 | TODAY 's pictures of Robert Maxwell 's sumptuous home must have been galling to MGN pensioners . |
| 6 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 7 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 8 | The new comic tone was radical rather than left-wing , what is more , which may have been salutary to critics who glibly confuse social reform with socialism . |
| 9 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 10 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of their success in attracting savings may have been due to people 's desire to save rather than spend and they are well placed to fund mortgages for those now planning to buy homes . ’ |
| 12 | That , too , may have been reactive to Modernism and Bloomsbury , which were certainly coteries , though in a land traditionally sceptical of manifestoes and cynical about self-advertisement it may as easily have been the reassertion of an ancient mistrust . |
| 13 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 14 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 15 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 16 | She would have been close to Alain . |
| 17 | At least three of these cars would have been useful to Leeds , when the remainder were sold to them , if only as a source of spare parts . |
| 18 | I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR . |
| 19 | There is sometimes a hidden symbolism that would have been apparent to people at that time . |
| 20 | Alone both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees would have been vulnerable to takeover , when rules lapse in 1994 to allow rival TV companies to make bids for each other . |
| 21 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |
| 22 | Whether such changes would have been acceptable to Contact users is open to speculation since social interaction and individual autonomy were the group 's main attractions . |
| 23 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 24 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 25 | Purcell probably completed this piece late , and supplied it on a separate sheet ; the part-copyist would have been able to gauge from the skeleton provided in the score how much space to leave in the second violin and viola parts . |
| 26 | ‘ Defeat would have been catastrophic to morale . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We decided that in the interests of safety it would have been unwise to stage Flat racing on the track . ’ |
| 28 | Those rare , brightly-coloured butterflies would have been conspicuous to predators , and therefore eaten . |
| 29 | Foreign policy would have been liable to majority voting as well , despite the obvious failures of the European Community in this sphere in the Gulf and in Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |