Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made . |
| 2 | Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important , because working with a portastudio and a mixing desk in the rehearsal room will teach a novice engineer a lot about sound mixing . |
| 3 | If a computer has been badly made and is an electrical hazard then , if the person who has been electrocuted had tampered with the machine , the damages awarded may be reduced in proportion to the extent of his contribution to the accident . |
| 4 | Bunker 's early efforts to bring about a settlement had been angrily brushed aside by Clasper , who told the regional officer in no uncertain terms that his help was not needed . |
| 5 | The term of the grant is sixteen years , but where it appears that a patentee has been insufficiently remunerated , the Court may extend the term for a period not exceeding five , or , in an exceptional case , ten years . |
| 6 | Which particular pathway a cell follows is usually controlled by extracellular signals acting at the branch points . |
| 7 | An old-fashioned view of speech communication would be that what the speaker intends to say is coded , or represented , as a string of phonemes just like a phonemic transcription , and what a hearer hears is also converted by the brain from sound waves into a similar string of phonemes . |
| 8 | One excellent example of the failure of a religion has been very well provided by the history of Judaism . |
| 9 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 10 | For example , the introduction of mechanized milking parlours has reduced milking to a process akin to assembly-line production ; on the other hand the life of a shepherd has been only marginally touched by technological change . |
| 11 | Surprise is , of course , unfair in one special circumstance : when a prediction has been specifically encouraged by those who deliberately defeat it . |
| 12 | ( 10 ) Similarly , although the requirements of fairness under the Code and CA 1985 , s459 do not necessarily coincide , the Code is a helpful guide to the City 's views on fairness which the court can take into account when deciding whether a shareholder has been unfairly prejudiced for the purposes of s459 ( see Re a Company [ 1986 ] BCLC 382 ) . |
| 13 | Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years . |
| 14 | Professionalism and a readiness to learn were now required . |
| 15 | 612 where it was held that a defendant had been validly committed for trial by justices notwithstanding that they had previously embarked on a summary trial but decided before the summary trial was concluded that in the circumstances they should not deal with the case and should commit the defendant for trial . |
| 16 | of women raped by a stranger reported being extremely upset , as against 59 per cent . |
| 17 | Once a bid has been publicly announced , parties with holdings of more than 50% or more of the voting rights of the target company , the offeror or any other company whose securities are offered for consideration must immediately inform the supervisory authority of all dealings in the securities of these companies . |
| 18 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 19 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 20 | ‘ Where a child has been wrongfully removed or retained in terms of article 3 and , at the date of the commencement of the proceedings before the judicial or administrative authority of the contracting state where the child is , a period of less than one year has elapsed from the date of the wrongful removal or retention , the authority concerned shall order the return of the child forthwith . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 22 | ‘ Where a child has been wrongfully removed or retained in terms of article 3 and , at the date of the commencement of the proceedings before the judicial or administrative authority of the contracting state where the child is , a period of less than one year has elapsed from the date of the wrongful removal or retention , the authority concerned shall order the return of the child forthwith . |
| 23 | Where a child has been seriously and deliberately injured by his parents the court may consider that a care order would still be in his best interests although a suitable placement can not be found immediately . |
| 24 | There must be a temptation , when a child has been so dreadfully deprived , to overcompensate , to lavish ‘ kindnesses ’ upon her and to be lax about discipline . |
| 25 | Soon it was falling in icy , clattering streams , as if above the clouds the bottom of a reservoir had been suddenly pulled aside . |
| 26 | When a bloke has been sexually excited , his ‘ love juices ’ tend to create a slight blockage in the urinary pipe for a little while . |
| 27 | There has been quite a staggering traffic of internationals into and out of New Zealand and provincial teams in recent years — and now a highway has been invitingly posted . |
| 28 | Similar problems occur when a sediment has been completely replaced , particularly when replacement has destroyed the original texture . |
| 29 | Wickham wished he knew the truth about the story Sniffy Wilson had brought out of Gorstone , but that would take time , if not prove impossible , to check ; and anyway , a plot plotted was very far from a murder carried out . |
| 30 | A trump had been deftly played . |