Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge of the extent of this variation is required , especially on what are likely to he the worst conditions , and if possible sampling should be done in the winter and spring in the British Isles , when the run-off after rain tends to be heavy , as well as in the summer . |
| 2 | Frequent judicial intervention is not essential for duty-based controls to be effective , and would if it took place prove extremely costly , but it is necessary that there be a realistic prospect of enforcement . |
| 3 | Just as change has to be acceptable if there is to be success in implementing it , so training for management has to be acceptable . |
| 4 | On the face of it , two lines of defence seem to be open to him . |
| 5 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 6 | If a builder is entrusted with the work , it must be ensured through a full briefing and careful supervision that only conscientious , knowledgeable and skilled tradesmen are employed who are able to give rational advice on the proper nature and extent of the remedial treatment if the initial assessment of the degree of damage proves to be inaccurate . |
| 7 | The new breed of skier expects to be able to ski from day two . |
| 8 | His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week . |
| 9 | Only in the region of full employment would such a pattern of response cease to be operative . |
| 10 | For both these commentators Marx 's concept of ideology fails to be useful because of an overarching problem in his claim to have transcended the problem of ideology by the application of a materialist and scientific method . |
| 11 | Today , this mode of reporting continues to be controversial . |
| 12 | Lacking instinctive predispositions to the latter , the change of basic mode of subsistence had to be traumatic , and so it was . |
| 13 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |
| 14 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 15 | And she says that attempts to free children of anxiety proved to be emissary . |
| 16 | This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did . |
| 17 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 18 | But both sides have plenty of work to do to be confident of making an impression in the All Ireland League . |
| 19 | Insulation up to 3 clo units ( p. 177 ) is effective for active people , and up to 4 units for sedentary work ( Brotherhood , 1973 ) ; additional thickness of clothing tends to be cumbersome and counterproductive , requiring more energy to carry it about . |
| 20 | If the amount of security proves to be insufficient , the court may , on the official receiver 's application , increase the amount to be deposited , and if the additional sum is not paid within two days after service of the order requiring it , then the interim receiver may be discharged . |
| 21 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 22 | To the extent that these prudential rules vary the Right of Establishment tends to be inoperative . |
| 23 | Roads that carried any considerable amount of through-traffic had to be wide enough , and could be wide enough in unenclosed country , to allow of detours around the impassable stretches that developed in unsurfaced roads by mid-winter . |
| 24 | The revenue demanded and received payment of the sum by way of tax alleged to be due under regulations subsequently held by your Lordships ' House to be ultra vires . |
| 25 | No short but complete definition of turbulence seems to be possible . |
| 26 | Any consideration of ageism has to be clear about the difference . |
| 27 | Now any adequate account of self needs to be able , I think , to encompass and try to make intelligible the ways in which women and men experience themselves . |
| 28 | Children 's toys , for example ( dolls or ‘ Action Man ’ ) , clothes ( pink for a girl , blue for a boy ) and names help to establish and define stereotypical patterns of behaviour associated with being male or female . |
| 29 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 30 | Your level of control needs to be high enough so that your carrot and stick power matters and is taken seriously by others . |