Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the roles of chairman and chief executive should be split is a secondary issue which can be meaningfully addressed only when the company 's needs have been defined . |
| 2 | The identification of these needs and the allowance that should be made is a normative issue , but we may want to deduct items from the definition of income ( e.g. , for the expenses associated with illness or disability ) or to calculate income per equivalent person ( e.g. , allowing for differing family size or age ) . |
| 3 | The way it should be funded is a matter for governments to decide . |
| 4 | Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed . |
| 5 | The Derivatives Risk Warning Notice which must be sent is a standard document prepared by the SFA . |
| 6 | This House was asserting that the mere existence of a mistake of law made at some earlier stage does not vitiate the actual decision made : what must be shown is a relevant error of law , i.e. , an error in the actual making of the decision which affected the decision itself . |
| 7 | In Siskina , the plaintiff 's major claim for compensation was not itself justiciable in England ; Lord Diplock pointed out that to argue in effect that it could be treated as justiciable because , if it were , an interlocutory injunction might be granted was a logical fallacy , petitio principii ( pulling oneself up by one 's own bootstraps ) . |
| 8 | How such enquiries might be conducted is a question which is considered in the next chapter . |
| 9 | The only type of receiver who could be appointed was a receiver of rates who has no control over assets and no management control which a receiver normally has . |
| 10 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 11 | The number of years over which loans could be repaid was a matter for each individual authority , subject to maxima laid down by the Government for given categories of assets . |
| 12 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |
| 13 | The decisions which may be appealed are a refusal to grant , renew , transfer or provisionally grant a licence ( s. 17(4) ) , the right of appeal being conferred on the applicant , a grant of a new licence , or a grant of a renewal , permanent transfer , or provisional grant of a licence ( s. 17(5) ) , the right of appeal being restricted to competent objectors who appeared at the hearing of the application . |
| 14 | Ultimately , however , what may be needed is a set of proper procedural guides and guarantees which would ensure that whatever the legal rules may be , they are observed in practice 66 |
| 15 | All that may be needed is a classification of machines and a measurement of time spent on each machine by each product . |
| 16 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 17 | All that would be required is a change in practice . |
| 18 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 19 | One of the new technologies that will be evaluated is a catalytic extraction process developed by Molten Metal Technology , US . |
| 20 | One of the projects which will be supported is a new rapid rail transit system , the Randstad Rail , for the country 's capital , The Hague . |
| 21 | Whether all of these older people will be retired is a separate point , not to be taken for granted , to be discussed below . |
| 22 | The extent to which subject coverage on the shelves can be achieved is a matter of library policy , funding , the amount of shelf space available , and the efficiency of interlending systems to which the authority has recourse . |
| 23 | How far their goodwill can be stretched is a moot point . |
| 24 | Business cards on which company information can be added are a growing aspect of the Ravenhill Business Park operation . |
| 25 | The most meaningful and effective way in which such output can be combined is a topic of on-going research ( Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 26 | However , if a ‘ crash ’ occurs the worst that can be expected is a rebuke from the instructor . |