Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the House of Commons has always contained some MPs who take an informed interest in the subject , they are in a small minority , irrespective of Party allegiance , being heavily outnumbered by those who are guided more by what they sense to be the prevailing expectations of the public . |
| 2 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 3 | Only after the contract takes effect does the agent ( putatively ) ‘ cease to be a person ’ . |
| 4 | It may not be too long before farm workers cease to be a majority of those engaged in farming . |
| 5 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 6 | ( d ) Termination of party status Any person may ask the court to order that he or another person cease to be a party to proceedings ( FPCR , r7(2) ; FPR , r4.7(2) ) . |
| 7 | And once changes are agreed , they cease to be the adjustments of the Government . |
| 8 | Most toddlers experience a severe shaking of the foundations when the next child is born and they cease to be the baby . |
| 9 | However , there appear to be no obvious reasons for the variation in number of libraries in total , or their divisional spread . |
| 10 | But , despite the new medical findings , police appear to be no closer to finding the murderer . |
| 11 | The mule is very much a product of artificial selection , for although wild horses and asses have roamed together in parts of South America there appear to be no records of naturally occurring hybrids . |
| 12 | There appear to be no major new competitive developments being planned . |
| 13 | However , there appear to be no words for compete or coerce . |
| 14 | In more specific terms of the language , Newport and Bellugi ( 1978 ) were able to show that deaf people are not deficient in category structure in ASL because there appear to be no signs for category names such as ‘ tool ’ or ‘ furniture ’ . |
| 15 | There appear to be no important differences in performance on intelligence tests in the working age range and as the influence of physical effort in work becomes less important so it is more feasible that jobs can be performed equally well by either sex . |
| 16 | Just as there appear to be no rubicons in a child 's cerebral development , so also there were probably no such rubicons phylogenetically . |
| 17 | The application vendor can clearly provide a language version of the binaries if desired , but there appear to be no facilities for multi-lingual binaries . |
| 18 | Wherever they come from , horses have no difficulty in understanding each other ; there appear to be no languages or dialects in ‘ Horse ’ , though domestic horses sometimes invent unusual signs to communicate with their owners . |
| 19 | They appear to be no different from the " shapes , the voices that throng the mind " . |
| 20 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 21 | Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law . |
| 22 | There appear to be no other triumphs to proclaim . |
| 23 | There would , at first sight , appear to be no connection between these two variables . |
| 24 | Section 22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 preserve the right to apply to the court to set aside an award on the ground of misconduct by the arbitrator : misconduct sometimes amounts to what appear to be no more than minor procedural solecisms . |
| 25 | Research in child development suggests that there appear to be no differences between male and female humour , at least until school age , where boys go in for practical jokes more than girls . |
| 26 | Why else might there appear to be no moon ? |
| 27 | His two concessions to luxury appear to be a passion for fast cars — he is the proud owner of a turbo-Bentley — and a 5,000 acre estate in Scotland . |
| 28 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 29 | The West Germans believe that the PFLP-GC was not involved in the bombing , even though Talb 's links with it appear to be a matter of record . |
| 30 | For during this first term the long regular letters to Harry Hooton appear to be a substitute for letters to Helen and a roundabout way of informing her of his progress . |