Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said this afternoon , any passenger who encourages and any driver who recklessly drives causing injury or damage is guilty of reckless driving , which was renamed dangerous driving in the Road Traffic Act 1991 and is liable to two years imprisonment . |
| 2 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 3 | Topically active corticosteroids , with reduced systemic bioavailability , should have fewer side effects , and there is evidence that enema preparations of corticosteroid drugs with metabolism in gut wall or liver are effective in distal colitis . |
| 4 | Instances can be cited where this appears not to be the case : where prominence is due to other than literary considerations . |
| 5 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 6 | Longterm results of biliary stenting , however , have been disappointing because stent clogging or migration are responsible for significant morbidity . |
| 7 | Where failure is due to inadequate foundations , and where neither the cause nor the effect can be eliminated , then underpinning will stabilise the building and restore its use and value . |
| 8 | Most of England and Wales should then be dry although some light rain or drizzle is likely in northern England during the evening . |
| 9 | If disaster struck and many of these things were destroyed , the name itself preserved in some form or other was sufficient for eternal survival . |
| 10 | A mixture consisting of peat with unwashed sand or clay is necessary for good specimens . |
| 11 | Although physics was concerned with general theory at that time the trend elsewhere was to emphasize detailed investigations and to avoid general theories . |
| 12 | I recognise and welcome the fact that the Secretary of State has said that there is no such thing as a legitimate target anywhere , because once that concept is accepted , we are in effect saying that murder is proper in certain circumstances . |
| 13 | This can be achieved only if it is recognised that research is essential in surgical practice and should be encouraged but , equally , that the person concerned must learn to operate . |
| 14 | Dahrendorf , however , has argued that alienation is irrelevant to empirical social science , ‘ since no amount of empirical research can either confirm or refute it ’ . |
| 15 | So far I have suggested that law is facilitative of commercial activity . |
| 16 | This proceeding ignored the current theory that intelligence was independent of social background . |
| 17 | Saying that imagination is essential for effective RE is perhaps like pubs advertising good food . |
| 18 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 19 | It would seem that there are few general applications , but several specific conditions may be helped by higher doses of vitamin A. Firstly , though , it should be remembered that retinol is toxic in large doses , and the public should not be given the impression that it is a safe supplement for children who may have recurrent respiratory or diarrhoeal illness . |
| 20 | We take for granted , too , the fact that water is liquid at normal Earthly temperatures and pressures : pure water freezes only at 0°C , and boils at 100°C ( which is how those quantities are defined ) . |
| 21 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 22 | It was clear however , that neither nominal responsibility nor title was indicative of actual time spent on in-service training . |
| 23 | This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change . |
| 24 | In one study analysis of dietary histories in 29 of 50 diabetics revealed that compliance was adequate for unrefined carbohydrate ( 39 per cent daily energy ) , fibre ( 34 g/day ) and sodium ( 100 mmol/day ) , although dietary fat was higher than intended ( 33 per cent daily energy ) ( Pacy et al , 1984c ) . |
| 25 | For though evolution taught that the human race was linked to plants and animals , it also demonstrated that man was separate from other species : ‘ a spiritual being , incarnate in an animal body ’ . |
| 26 | I do not believe that youth is incapable of true and lasting love … |
| 27 | It was recently experimentally shown that curvature is possible without AnTm tracts , provided that a certain combination of dinucleotide steps occur ( 1–4 ) . |
| 28 | Jonathan Chowen of Sussex Stationers argued that advertising was crucial to successful bookselling . |
| 29 | Like Lakatos , Kuhn does not argue that science is superior to other fields of enquiry , but assumes it . |
| 30 | ( It is because of lack of oxygen that growth is poor in water-logged soils ) . |