Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb -s] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 2 | I respectfully adopt his narrative of the proceedings in this appeal and his account of the statutory provisions by reference to which it falls to be decided . |
| 3 | The matter is now governed by section 6 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which provides that if the improver acted in the mistaken but honest belief that he had a good title , an allowance is to be made for the extent to which the value of the goods at the time at which it falls to be assessed , is attributable to the improvement . |
| 4 | Article 31 ( also printed in bold ) should be used as S.7 of the Companies Act requires an unlimited company 's articles to state the amount of share capital with which it proposes to be registered . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal is not bound to follow an interlocutory decision made by two judges of the Court of Appeal which it considers to be wrong ( Boys v. |
| 6 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 7 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 8 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 9 | The DC then changes state to ACTIVE , thus allowing the modules to which it refers to be updated , using the package through which the DC has been activated . |
| 10 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 11 | The virgins perform the most curious rites requiring far more dexterity than the earlier phallic Maypole rituals from which it seems to be derived . |
| 12 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 13 | including one from British Telecom , which it seems to be being done quite well , so it 'll be improving the environment week . |
| 14 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 15 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 16 | The agreement may provide for the amount of any fees to which it applies to be increased , but only if a percentage is specified . |
| 17 | According to Templeton 's Mark Mobius , his team will only put those shares on the buy lists which it judges to be bargains ; if it discovers no bargains in a particular country then no shares from that country will appear in the portfolio . |
| 18 | Its policy is to open some Japanese markets ( which it deems to be closed ) by setting import targets — an approach to trade policy that supporters call ‘ results-oriented ’ . |
| 19 | It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong . |
| 20 | It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong . |
| 21 | China produced 210,000 tons of pesticides in 1990 , 96 per cent of which it claims to be highly effective but low on toxicity and residue . |
| 22 | In the absence of calcium , InsP 3 has little effect , but becomes increasingly active as the concentration of calcium rises , reaching a maximum at about 300nM , after which it begins to be inhibitory . |
| 23 | It may assist the court to sever any part of a clause which it finds to be objectionable , leaving the rest enforceable . |
| 24 | Where planning is not purely negative ( which it has to be sometimes ) , it should set out to enable people to live decent lives . |
| 25 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 26 | In all interpreting it is not only the technical skill of the interpreter which is important but also his attitude to the job and to the particular situation in which it has to be carried out ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) ; also important is his awareness of the different expression of the same meaning in different cultures ( ‘ the sense ’ of the message ; see Seleskovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 28 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |
| 29 | Being too drunk to get yourself home safely , sleeping wherever there 's a bed — no matter whose it happens to be … ’ |
| 30 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |