Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 2 | Though the next general election may be more than two years away , the markets have already started taking bets on the outcome . |
| 3 | The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed . |
| 4 | Order 29 , r12(1) simply states that the interim payment should be just and not exceed a reasonable proportion of the damages that the plaintiff is likely to be awarded . |
| 5 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 6 | The requirement that the reduction should be just and equitable means that there is no single test for determining the level of reduction of damages . |
| 7 | The speed may be just because I 'm press , of course — Which ? magazine said this week the AA is slowest of the big motoring organisations to answer a call . |
| 8 | He might perhaps attribute the incompleteness of his account to the fact that he is a ‘ bourgeois ’ subject , who can only glimpse an alternative view ofthe individual ; but this defence is still a problem , for even a glimpse suggests that the ISAs of the capitalist totality may be more or less effective , and this variation will have to be explained . |
| 9 | today , and why powers equal to those wielded in respect to the management of internal and domestic affairs by the Self-Governing Colonies could not , if the policy of Indirect Rule should be consistently and intelligently applied , be granted to such units within one or two generations . |
| 10 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 11 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 12 | His loss could be less than £5 if , for example , in his contract with Q the price was £104 . |
| 13 | Clearly this figure could be more or less . |
| 14 | His reply would be perhaps that the proof of the pudding is in the particular cases . |
| 15 | The community can unite over that proposition while disagreeing about which alternative would be more and which less just . |
| 16 | For many , the figure would be less if they were to avoid having their spending capped . |
| 17 | It is therefore inevitable that our Poundians will be exceptions , and that majority opinion for the foreseeable future will be more or less hysterically hostile to Pound . |
| 18 | Dealing with the feelings you have , about not having the child you wanted , is not easy but your distress will be less if you approach the situation as a loving couple . |
| 19 | Yes , it 's open to everyone and we have a full range of experts there — people from the equipment companies , from Touchwood Sports , tour operators , the Ski Club will be there as well and we 'll be there to explain what skiing is , how you can start , how you learn to ski on the dry ski slope with the Ski Club , how you can go on alpine holidays , evening events , everything . |
| 20 | At age 11 , the SAT should be of greater length and complexity , and the pupil 's response might be mainly but not exclusively written . |
| 21 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 22 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 23 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 24 | Division four is devoted to ‘ Interpretative principles Derived from Legal policy ’ which are , for example , that law should serve the public interest , and that law should be just and not subject to casual change . |
| 25 | Care , of course , has to be taken not to equate , by necessity , duration with severity , for a child might be just as traumatized by one incident as by a succession of repeated incidents over time . |
| 26 | I knew when to put the tape on , I could start it while she was in the bathroom , she did n't wander off while it was recording , and the machine could be underneath and out of sight . ’ |
| 27 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
| 28 | So that the mess would be outside and not inside . |
| 29 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 30 | It had been feared compensation would be less than £100,000 each , under the Carriage By Air Act . |