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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The doctor will often feel it necessary to examine the pelvic organs manually to assess whether there is evidence of pelvic inflammatory disease , fibroids in the uterus , or to see whether the uterus is enlarged when pregnancy is suspected .
2 Occupations tend to be upgraded in status , for example , by implying possession of a special skill or suggesting that the work is in a supervisory capacity .
3 Available in a wide range of sizes , the uPVC framework will never rot or corrode and the conservatory is double glazed throughout .
4 It is possible that an individual 's echolocation system is impaired or disrupted when the whale is close to gentle sloping sandy beeches .
5 It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered .
6 When they are asked to share their true thoughts or feelings with an unfamiliar partner or in a small group , I have never known anyone to object , or complain that the exercise is an invasion of privacy .
7 He might be brought in for periodic boosters or to help when the problem is in the degree of difficulty and intensity not experienced before .
8 Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required .
9 Beware of feedback , the dreadful shriek or whistle when a microphone is in front of a loudspeaker ( the inanimate , not the human kind ) .
10 It is quite likely that they will make suggestions or ask that the work is prepared according to a set of guidelines that they provide .
11 This inappropriate behaviour can indicate the level of distress or anger that the child is feeling and extensive investigations into family functioning are indicated .
12 HOW many more police officers have to be stabbed , shot or beaten before the law is changed to protect them ?
13 Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period .
14 Rather than presume that a motorway is required , will my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledge that there is at least one other option — to leave things as they are ?
15 The ragged edges and surfaces of the freshly inflicted wound become smoothed out within an hour to give a more regular cellular organization that persists until the wound is closed .
16 Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time .
17 You could too , choose rather different wall treatments for the dining part : flame-proofed fabric ; wallpaper , a warm , dark paint , and add pictures , prints , objects , favourite collections , bookshelves , anything that emphasises that the space is as much for living as for working in .
18 Unlike other fast chargers it has an alarm bell that rings when the battery is charged .
19 The change in enthalpy that occurs when a process is carried out at constant pressure is given by We can substitute equation ( 3 ) into this equation to get : where qP is the heat absorbed by the system when the pressure of the system is constant .
20 This is the change in frequency of a sound that occurs when a source is moving relative to the listener .
21 Throughout either of the sequence of developments with increasing Rayleigh number described in Sections 22.5 and 22.6 , the temperature profile tends away from the linear form that occurs when the fluid is at rest and towards the form of Fig. 22.11 .
22 You can sometimes get a situation that occurs where a man is married to a woman who is in fact his grandmother , this can happen .
23 I do n't think that the erm go into this properly and I do n't , I think will have dealt with it in lectures , but essentially there 's a common law principle that says if a matter is more prejudicial than evidential it should not be read .
24 In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended .
25 For if ‘ good ’ is the label for a property rather than the expression of an impulse why should noting its presence have anything more essential to do with an inclination to promote it , than noting that a wall-paper is blue has to do with choosing it ?
26 There is therefore some doubt as to whether broad clauses of the type that state that the firm is not obliged to disclose to the customer or take into account when acting for him any information known to the firm but unknown to the individual acting for the customer would protect the firm against allegations of non-disclosure , particularly in the case of an inexperienced customer .
27 It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified .
28 Fitted wardrobes can have internal lights worked by pressure switches that operate when the door is opened .
29 It is poised to channel a massive £450m into the insurance company in a move that hints that the competition is getting fiercer and that only the big boys will survive .
30 You will notice in the dialog box that appears that the Type is already set to Date and that the Date Unit box is not greyed out .
  Next page