Example sentences of "[vb pp] [is] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this has been entered ( unless a date has been given for the assessment ) the plaintiff should , when ready to prove his figures , apply for an appointment before the district judge , or , if the sum claimed is more than £1,000 , before the circuit judge ( unless the defendant admits liability ) . |
| 2 | Lawrence from Felt is back and with a new title . |
| 3 | The question to be answered is not whether the deprave-and-corrupt test is necessary in a modern society — that has now been conceded — but whether it is sufficient to catch the full range of material which ‘ the protection of health and morals ’ requires ? |
| 4 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 5 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 6 | A member of any council is entitled to a subsistence allowance only if the place where the duty is performed is more than three miles from his usual place of residence . |
| 7 | All of this should be easily understood when it is realised that the effect of the contract being avoided or frustrated is generally that the parties are no longer required to carry out the contract ; they are excused . |
| 8 | The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length . |
| 9 | If the sum insured is less than 60% of the value of property at risk , due consideration should be given to avoiding the policy ( refer Section 6.2 ) . |
| 10 | The question which should be posed is not whether offenders should be permitted to profit from their crimes but whether crime should be profited from by any person . |
| 11 | Consequently the question asked is not whether antitrust decisions lead to the greatest economic efficiency but whether it can be said , given the non-economic reasons for antitrust policy , that these decisions do any serious harm . |
| 12 | Despite many a scratched hand , the official ruling is that any pedigree cat found to have had its claws removed is automatically and unconditionally disqualified from competing . |
| 13 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 14 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
| 15 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 16 | But the total number registered is more than four million if existing BT shareholders are included and the sale organisers believe this is a good performance so far . |
| 17 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 18 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 19 | The vocabulary required is rapidly and easily established through interaction between signers , clearly with a shared grammar , recourse to mime and a percentage of shared vocabulary . |
| 20 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |