Example sentences of "the [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm is breadth-first ; each state at time t is advanced before updating states at t+1 . |
| 2 | As the estimate is simply the maximum that any hypothesis can achieve for the remainder of the utterance , the estimate is always optimistic and the algorithm is admissible . |
| 3 | Thus the cost of a path can not increase , it can only stay at the same level or decrease , and the algorithm is admissible . |
| 4 | Otherwise , the algorithm is impractical ( e.g. if run-time is > Cn ) . |
| 5 | The algorithm is fast , taking under a second to order 1150 clones and 180 probes from the S.pombe YAC library and under 3 seconds to order 667 probes and 2837 clones from the S.pombe cosmid library on SUN SPARCStation II . |
| 6 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 7 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |
| 8 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 9 | The computer can not interpret the information if the tag is dirty or marked . |
| 10 | ‘ The porter is right and Dame Catherine 's explanation feckless . |
| 11 | Initially the activities are such that the validity of the idea was questioned , and this was checked by activities taking place in the scheming and analysis phases . |
| 12 | In such cases , the activities are beneficial in spite of being defined as crimes , not because they are . |
| 13 | There often comes a point in the growth of an enterprise when it is clear that some of the activities are profitable and others are a burden . |
| 14 | If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all . |
| 15 | The defence is solid … remember we were playing Wimbledon … the last thing they do is give the defence an easy time — I thought they coped well and limited Wimbledon to a few shot from the edge of the box — which beeney coped with admirably . |
| 16 | If the defence is good that will be the end of the matter . |
| 17 | The other view is that where the conduct of the plaintiff would have given rise to the defence at common law if he was suing for negligence , the defence is applicable . |
| 18 | The defence is appealing against a ruling by the colony 's Supreme Court that a tape recording made by Scottish police at a Perthshire hotel of an alleged confession was admissible as evidence by the Crown . |
| 19 | By mauling and driving , the defence is able to reorganise and fan out across the pitch , ready for the next attack , as the English team found out to their cost in Cardiff . |
| 20 | We know they can play this game but the defence is shocking . |
| 21 | However , if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this . |
| 22 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 23 | Why is it then that he refuses to acknowledge that the defence is bad and needs improving ? |
| 24 | If the car dealer had made extensive enquiries of previous owners as to the accuracy of the odometer reading , then the defence is likely to succeed , especially if the general condition of the car was consistent with the mileage recorded on the odometer . |
| 25 | Where , however , the recorded mileage was exceptionally low for the age of the vehicle and the defendant had failed to make any enquiries even of the car 's immediate previous owner , the defence is likely to fail , Simmons v. Ravenhill ( 1983 D.C. ) . |
| 26 | Criticism of the defence is unfair again IMO . |
| 27 | Distinguishing Rex v. Clarke , 22 Cr.App.R. 58 and Reg. v. Hall , 43 Cr.App.R. 29 , Shelley J.A. , delivering the judgment of the court , observed that the defence is entitled to see such a statement , not by virtue of any general rule of law , but by virtue of the prosecution 's duty to inform the defence of statements in their possession made by a witness whose evidence at the trial differs substantially from what has been said in the statements . |
| 28 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 29 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |
| 30 | It was on this basis that the defence were able to confound the evidence of the prosecution and gain Leonard Arthur his reprieve . |