Example sentences of "be amenable to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what do we know about childhood determinants of adult disorder which might be amenable to preventive intervention ? |
| 2 | There are always a priori assumptions of what we call an ideological nature , which are not amenable to proof , but which may helpfully be amenable to explicit and prior communication . |
| 3 | Petroleum wastes may be amenable to activated carbon adsorption if they are relatively small ; bulkier molecules , such as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) , are difficult to treat by adsorption due to size exclusion from the adsorbent 's micropores . |
| 4 | Moreover , a body may be amenable to judicial review even if , to use a graphic phrase of Lord Donaldson MR , it ‘ operates without visible means of legal support ’ . |
| 5 | This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the exercise of such discretion would not in my opinion be amenable to judicial review on the basis set out in the decision of your Lordships ' House in Reg. v. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , Ex parte Chetnik Developments Ltd. [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 . |
| 7 | Apart from the correctness of the analogy drawn by Simon Brown J. in Wachmann 's case [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , and the suggestion that the visitors to the Inns of Court may be amenable to judicial review , there was no dispute about the correctness of any of these submissions . |
| 8 | If this was the source of the visitors ' continuing jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals , then it was accepted that they would be amenable to judicial review , their situation being in certain respects comparable to that of a visitor to a university or college who holds that position by virtue of his office , cp the Queen as visitor of the University of Hull : see the Page case [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 , 1279 . |