Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where no defence to claim or counterclaim has been served in the High Court , the defendant or plaintiff must , within 14 days of the receipt of the notice of hearing , deliver at the court office a defence together with a copy for the plaintiff or defendant as the case may be . |
| 2 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
| 3 | It is not surprising , therefore , to find that learning has been one of the most extensively studied of human abilities , yet we do not have one complete explanatory theory that can guide teachers . |
| 4 | Pressure to work and pressure to retire is placed on older people in proportions which can be both confusing and callous . |
| 5 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 6 | Owen was amused to see that hospitality had been provided . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ It 's good to see that justice has been done — the pressure on myself and my family over this has been intense . |
| 8 | Officials in San'aa denied that there was any basis for these reports , which were , however , used in Western press reports to suggest that unification had been brought forward to pre-empt the development of any serious opposition of this kind . |
| 9 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 10 | ‘ Hookers owe it to themselves and their loved ones to refuse to play if crouch-touch pause-engage is n't being enforced ’ , he said . |
| 11 | His research leads him to conclude that group think is characterized by : |
| 12 | Second , either as a result of his or her independent actions , or acting as a result of an objection by a member of the public , the auditor can seek redress in the courts when an item of account is contrary to the law , or where money has not been brought to account or loss has been incurred through wilful misconduct . |
| 13 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 14 | These conclusions lead her to argue that rationality has been falsely assumed to be the criterion of political adulthood , and that rationality does not entail autonomy . |
| 15 | Just to say that claim had been processed at his end , had all relevant documentation , etc . |
| 16 | Although the panic order for cinemas to close and production to cease was rapidly rescinded , many film studios were to be requisitioned by the military throughout the war . |
| 17 | It will not be possible to say whether validation has been effective in ensuring that the Council 's courses are truly fulfilling their aims until the first graduates start entering industry but we have already started to review the operation of the validation process . |
| 18 | Surely hotels should be held to contract when payment has been made in full by clients ? |
| 19 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |