Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 The award guarantees that the candidate is competent in a significant range of work activities .
2 In addition , there may be statements from engineers or surveyors suggesting that the building is physically unsound .
3 LIFESPAN ABLE will ask the user to confirm that the facility is to be terminated and , if confirmed , will terminate with an appropriate message .
4 Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was .
5 Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat .
6 The Scotsman understands that the deal is now unlikely to go ahead and a minority shareholder in Bank of Edinburgh , the Brighton-based Family Assurance Society , confirmed that there were difficulties .
7 Where a teacher feels this is likely to happen it becomes her responsibility to see that the danger is avoided .
8 ‘ The court clearly has jurisdiction within the ambit of the 1968 Act and rules to see that no injustice is done to any applicant or appellant .
9 Sometimes the volume quoted by the manufacturer is wrong by as much as 25 per cent , so press the salesman to confirm that the volume is at least 200 litres .
10 I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest .
11 I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly .
12 The vaginal scent also lets the male know whether the female is on heat , as does her urine .
13 As we have mentioned , the efficient market hypothesis holds that the market is efficient , in the sense that share prices are determined in the light of all relevant publicly available information .
14 Both Atticus and Judge Taylor realise that the case is lost before that trial even begins because they realise that because the jury is all white , they can not convict a black man against a white man 's word .
15 The position of the bend influences the electrophoretic mobility of the protein-DNA complex with maximal retardation occurring when the bend is located at the middle of the fragment and a gradual reduction in retardation is seen for bends positioned at incremental positions towards the ends of the fragment ( 44,62 ) .
16 A ‘ second look ’ capability to confirm that the arrhythmia is still present during device charging avoids unnecessary shocks for self-terminating arrhythmias .
17 If you are eventing rather than hunter trialling and the horse is standing in the horsebox between phases , he is likely to ‘ go off the boil ’ and although he should not require work as such , he will probably need a sharp canter and four or five practice jumps before he is ready to go .
18 Remaining discrepancies are termed isostatic anomalies , but why should such anomalies exist when the lithosphere is apparently free to attain isostatic equilibrium with respect to the asthenosphere ?
19 The most common statement that drivers make after an accident is , ‘ I never even saw him coming . ’
20 Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side .
21 Business investment is an area that bears watching in the coming months to see if the recovery is sustainable . ’
22 Thus the action failed and the case is authority for the immunity of an assignee of an equitable lease from liability on the covenants .
23 Initially , then , on being approached to promote an order , it is the task of the agent to confirm that the order is in fact viable , that is to say , that the objects of the order can not be achieved without an order confirmed by parliament — that it can not be done by other means .
24 People with recurrent herpes soon get to know their disease well and can often tell 24 hours before the vesicles appear that an attack is imminent .
25 The old zeks say that a man is weakest when he comes to the camps for the first time , when the desire for life is first squeezed from him .
26 The acquirer will rely on the warranties to establish whether the business is in proper compliance with those agreements at completion .
27 A simple series of steps to establish if the situation is one with built in conflict is as follows :
28 Liverpool showed enough in Moscow before losing their heads to indicate that the task is not beyond them .
29 If you mention the possibility of a conspiracy charge , it would be wise to add that the addition of conspiracy counts when the crime is consummated must be specially justified .
30 The authors suggest that the LIT is a test which is particularly suitable for use with severely and moderately mentally handicapped children .
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