Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb mod] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel for the debtor was conscious of the problem and uneasy that the absence of reasons might be prejudicial to her client 's case . |
| 2 | Contact also with organisations for the assistance of widows can be useful to some women , and one of these , CRUSE , which has already been mentioned , runs groups and an excellent counselling service . |
| 3 | This of course might be due to the fact that the sample as a whole has a long working week ; it certainly contradicts the impression given by the women themselves that ‘ women 's work is never done ’ : |
| 4 | Now , a number of notes will be common to two adjacent chords . |
| 5 | While the mobilisation of large numbers of pickets may be advantageous to the union 's cause , it also invites problems of disorganisation and indiscipline . |
| 6 | While any set of projections will be subject to some error for these sorts of reasons , the official household projections produced by the Department of Environment have provided a generally satisfactory framework for consideration of likely future trends in household composition . |
| 7 | Nor is it possible to say what percentage of cases might be attributable to food , because nobody has even attempted to find out . |
| 8 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 9 | However , within the simple aggregate supply and demand framework that we have developed above it has always been possible to show that , if expectations of inflation are not rational , then Friedman 's x per cent growth rule for the quantity of money will be inferior to some other policy which links monetary growth to the current or past state of the economy . |
| 10 | Although inflation was set to drop in east Germany from 13.6 p.c. to 12 p.c. in 1992 , the actual inflation rate for the whole of Germany would be closer to 5 than 4 p.c . |
| 11 | Other sources of funding might be available to students who meet the criteria . |
| 12 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 13 | This form of discontinuity will be familiar to engineers . |
| 14 | A list of winners will be available to those sending a S.A.E. to the competition address within 8 weeks of the closing date . |
| 15 | A list of winners will be available to those sending an S.A.E. to : Promoters ; Stoves Ltd , . |
| 16 | Will he tell us exactly how much public money the Scottish Development Agency has invested in the Stagecoach operation and whether the same level of investment will be available to every bid , including management-employee bids , that is made to buy one of the subsidiaries ? |
| 17 | Changes in the log of variables can be used to measure the percentage change of that variable . |
| 18 | The uncontrolled increase in the number of authors might be remediable to some extent by journals devising a collective policy . |
| 19 | Specifically , what interpretations of data would be available to us if we relied on ‘ mainstream ’ norms , and how would these differ from internally-based interpretations ? |
| 20 | Sir David Smith , the principal of Edinburgh University , has suggested that the MPs who shout most loudly for league tables of schools should be subject to the same treatment . |
| 21 | Local inspectors of schools will be answerable to the Inspectorate , which will also have a new role as Education Ombudsman . |
| 22 | At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 per cent rate of interest . |
| 23 | There might be funfairs everywhere , but the real Disneyland was neither crumbling , nor swept by bitter winds off the Irish Sea , nor cursed by hotels that are really gimcrack boarding houses , nor served by superannuated London cabs displaying notices saying that if you 're so drunk that you 're sick inside , a cleaning fee of £10 will be payable to the driver . |
| 24 | The author feels that the amount of benefit will be equal to the interest which a lender would charge and the borrower would pay duly discounted because the loan is repayable on demand ( see cases such as Exeter Golf and Country Club Ltd v The Commissioners of Customs and Excise [ 1981 ] STC 211 ) . |
| 25 | In fact , such spurts of exercise can be hazardous to a body that 's not conditioned to handle sudden bursts of activity . |
| 26 | The world is becoming increasingly interdependent and an improvement in the standard of living of Southerners will be advantageous to the North . |
| 27 | Any settlement under this section of the policy in respect of clothing will be subject to a deduction for wear and tear , where applicable . |
| 28 | Since the various types of blood cell will develop in culture from the multipotential stem cell , it suggests that the programme of diversification may be intrinsic to the cells and not due to external factors . |
| 29 | Will he seriously consider whether that sort of amendment would be acceptable to everyone ? |
| 30 | Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " . |