Example sentences of "such an [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mind , any council which actively engenders support for such an organisation is in breach of the trust and duty placed in them by the electorate . ’ |
| 2 | L 379 , p. 1 ) , according to which the levying of any customs duty or charge having equivalent effect and the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect were prohibited in the internal trade of the Community ; ( c ) article 8(1) of that Regulation , which , as regards the payment of an indemnity to producers who were not members of a producers ' organisation , provided that such an indemnity was to be granted without discrimination as to the nationality or place of establishment of the recipients ; ( d ) article 27(2) of that Regulation , which laid down for all fishing vessels flying the flag of one of the member states the principle of equal access to ports and first-stage marketing installations in the other member states ; ( e ) article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which authorised the member states to determine the detailed rules for the utilisation of the quotas allocated to them , in accordance with the applicable Community provisions ; and ( f ) article 13(2) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3094/86 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources ( Official Journal 1986 No . |
| 3 | But such an identification is at best hypothetical , since it implies that Eliot was unconsciously propelled towards some instinctive revelation of his own guilt and horror . |
| 4 | Frankly however without cost guides which depend so much on shape such an exercise is of limited value . |
| 5 | The point of such an exercise is to clearly focus on present learning needs and to clarify the process of learning . |
| 6 | The relatively low slewing rate of the LM308A is responsible for this and imposes a limit on clock frequency of 15kHz if such an eventuality is at all likely . |
| 7 | Being adequately prepared with contingency plans for such an eventuality is about the most you can do . |
| 8 | And although such an eventuality was beyond my imagination ( like trying to envisage infinity ) and utterly unacceptable to me , I still knew it to be true . |
| 9 | Such an approach is of considerable interest , although there are many methodological problems involved in establishing its efficacy . |
| 10 | The problem with such an approach is of course that if one 's starting-point is ‘ what are the scriptures fundamentally about ? ’ ( and not ‘ what is a priori right ? ’ — which would be an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position ) it is perfectly possible for others to contend that they consider some quite other theme to be ‘ fundamental ’ to the scriptures . |
| 11 | The propagandist view of literature , literature as illustration , tendentiousness , are denounced on the grounds that the desire to illustrate one particular ideological viewpoint at the expense of all else , has disastrous consequences at the artistic level since such an approach is at odds with any attempt to display the inherent contradictions and complexities within a given historical situation ; indeed , the case is quite the reverse : it actually masks such contradictions . |
| 12 | Such an approach is in keeping with the guidelines for the original conference , which stressed the interpretative importance of indigenous concepts of self . |
| 13 | Such an approach is in the County Council 's view , entirely consistent with government policy |
| 14 | And furthermore , how do we know that relational statements purporting to depict such an order are in fact sometimes true ? |
| 15 | The application for such an order is to be made on notice ( Ord 13 , r 5 ) . |
| 16 | Sufism in today 's Africa , with its saint worship and magical practices , has been presented as doomed in the path of modernisation : such an assessment is to be seriously questioned here . |
| 17 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 18 | We can not feel that such an arrangement is in any way unjust to you . |
| 19 | Indeed , such an observation is by no means confined to the service sectors discussed here , and is a result of service policy pressures much wider than ( and perhaps in opposition to ) concerns about the provision of high quality community support . |
| 20 | He suggests that such an analysis is for the ‘ intellectually bankrupt ’ , and that the predictive power of economics offers a more intellectually credible basis upon which to decide whether insider dealing is desirable or not . |
| 21 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 22 | From an avowed anti-socialist such an argument was by no means entirely free of complexities ; indeed he seemed aware of them , even to draw pleasure from the difficulty they posed for an opponent who would have to sort out the tangle . |
| 23 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 24 | ( Such an explanation is of course suspiciously post hoc : we would need independent evidence that these three activities are indeed predominant in social life . ) |
| 25 | Nevertheless , Edward González ( 1968 , p. 44 ) shows that the Cuban Communists ‘ worked to preclude the possibility of a rapprochement between Castro and Washington ’ , a fact which indirectly supports the contention that such an accommodation was at least feasible at that time . |
| 26 | Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain ? |
| 27 | Cutting the value of , or abolishing national insurance benefits , and a much increased reliance on means-tested assistance , has played a crucial part in trapping the underclass into long-term dependency , although such an outcome is in stark contradiction to the Government 's stated long-term objectives . |