Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 2 | Any other arrestable offence may be serious if its commission has led to or is likely to lead to : ( a ) serious harm to the security of the state or public order ; ( b ) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( c ) death ; ( d ) serious injury ; ( e ) substantial financial gain or serious financial loss . |
| 3 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 4 | uncertainty about ends or focus , i.e. what the output from the activity is aimed at or is likely to result in , and |
| 5 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 6 | What is achievable depends to some extent on whether the project is entirely new or is able to build on preceding work . |
| 7 | A board that is easy to sail in strong winds which has a surf-board type of tail , footstraps , a retracting daggerboard and a mast track . |
| 8 | Yet the report is widely agreed to have very little that is tangible to say about how the UK 's environmental stategy is to be taken forward . |
| 9 | One point that is appropriate to bear in mind at this juncture , and that is often overlooked , is the difficulty , because of their nature , of mixing H.T.s and Floribundas with other plants . |
| 10 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 11 | Direct selling provides a degree of control that is impossible to achieve through intermediaries over such matters as price , credit , after-sales service , etc . |
| 12 | In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish . |
| 13 | The aim of this factsheet is to provide advice and information to elderly people on the help that is available to assist with heating costs and other fuel problems . |
| 14 | Marxists and feminists are inclined to see this familiar fact as a form of exploitation , and the current fashion is to be particularly scornful of the honour that is supposed to accrue to the unpaid housewife . |
| 15 | Mr Bush livened the act last week when he said he was giving Congress until March 27th to decide which current defence programmes should be trimmed to raise $870m for Panama and Nicaragua ( money that is supposed to come from the 1990 Pentagon budget ) . |
| 16 | I think that the hon. Member , who belongs to a party that is supposed to believe in devolution , might occasionally support a practical piece of devolution . |
| 17 | Such a possibility should be considered in all patients with unstable asthma that is difficult to control with conventional treatment . |
| 18 | The 1989 glitch , like the 1975 one , caused a permanent increase in the slowdown rate , of a magnitude that is difficult to reconcile with current neutron star models . |
| 19 | The purest form of this is in ALT constructs with SKIP guards : for example ALT ( SKIP P , SKIP Q ) is a process that is free to behave like P or like Q , the choice depending neither on the environment nor on the program 's variables . |
| 20 | It is a style that is unlikely to appeal to many people , and is not even encouraged by NACAB or GLCABS . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 22 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 23 | Transport of bone before or after burial is probably responsible for much of this breakage , but this is a factor that is hard to evaluate for small mammal assemblages because of the difficulties in keeping track of the small bones . |
| 24 | Halliday 's approach is one that is hard to reconcile with this everyday insight about " style " . |
| 25 | The big advantage of old , slightly faded curtains is that they are a good starting point round which to build a comfortable , well-used look ; one that is hard to achieve with brand-new designer materials . |
| 26 | Treat timber with a wood preservative — one that is safe to use near plants |
| 27 | Access areas such as halls , landings , conservatories and stairs need a floorcovering that is able to cope with heavy traffic and maybe dirty shoes . |
| 28 | Chapter 7 , which is written by Sara Ladbury and Clive Mira-Smith , is a piece of work by the Cities Research Unit , a private consultant , and accordingly reflects the style and the medium in which it is rooted , whilst similarly Jon Dawson and Michael Parkinson 's chapter is written from a perspective that is able to take on board their own personal involvement with the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 29 | Unfortunately there is no semantic theory currently available that is able to work in such a way for a broad coverage of English . |
| 30 | We want an independent inspectorate that is able to comment on all those matters . |