Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Barrett worked in the Town Yard , Mr. Reeves was a jobbing gardener whilst Mr. Sanger , who was a poulterer , was always in demand each Christmas when the chicken which so many residents kept were due to be plucked and prepared for the table . |
| 2 | Adair recognised that there will seldom be complete harmony between the three sets of needs , and the resulting tensions must be diagnosed and managed by the leader of the group . |
| 3 | It may be that there is a special rule for reservation of title clauses : this is examined below ( Chapter 10 ) but subject to that possible exception , once a contract has been made , its terms can only be altered or supplemented by a variation , and such variation will only be effective if it is supported by consideration . |
| 4 | Some of the points that follow are re-phrased from L. C. Taylor 's summary ( Taylor 1972 , pp. 156–7 ) , while others will be recognized as emerging from the arguments of Chapters I and 2 . |
| 5 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 6 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 7 | Some subjects have both common and technical names ; these different names must be recognized and reflected in the index in accordance with the audience for whom the index is intended . |
| 8 | Country house parkland , however , deserves to be recognized and protected as an artistic creation in its own right . |
| 9 | ‘ Such undertakings can neither be amended nor cancelled without the agreement of the issuing bank , the confirming bank ( if any ) , and the beneficiary ’ . |
| 10 | Any common-law rule established by judicial precedent may be amended or removed by a statute passed by Parliament . |
| 11 | Adult pets will appreciate the ‘ floating-on-a-cloud ’ sensation that this bed creates and those aching , rheumatic joints in older pets will be eased and relaxed by the warmth and support that this new Snuggle now provides . |
| 12 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 13 | These issues will be explained and illustrated in the new booklets and audio visuals , which are designed for use by women activists and community leaders in discussion groups and workshops . |
| 14 | This operation needs to be explained and demonstrated to every student . |
| 15 | This could be explained as resulting from the dynamical drag of the surrounding gas provided that the galaxies start off with individual dark haloes . |
| 16 | Corrigan points out that the delinquency of these boys can not be explained or understood outside the context of their leisure activities ( or lack of them ) . |
| 17 | When family members , or other people close to the sufferer attempt to give feedback it may be resented and resisted by the reactivated denial system and lead to the opposite of the desired effect . |
| 18 | If this fails , then bretylium 5 mg/kg should be given and repeated in a dose of 10 mg/kg every 5 min . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 20 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 21 | The rest will be given or sold to the public , while those works for which a home can not be found or which have been damaged beyond repair by the years of neglect and the atrocious conditions in which they were kept , will be destroyed in a bonfire . |
| 22 | Their Lordships held that such consent can not be given or implied by a course of conduct over the years as it is important in the interests of both the local authority and the public that consent should not be accidental or informal . |
| 23 | Sufficient common ground existed for a programme of reform to be formulated and presented to an electorate , so constituted as aggressively independent working class — males as producers , females as consumers and reproducers . |
| 24 | In order that the design request can be formulated and handled in a systematic way , it is necessary to provide a structured data base in both site systems . |
| 25 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 26 | Other sections give appreciable protection to LCH with regard to collateral security in its hands : eg , s 175 removes from LCH the restrictions on enforcement of security which would otherwise apply , under the Insolvency Act 1986 , in the event that a defaulting member 's affairs were placed in the hands of an administrator ; and s 177 allows collateral lodged with LCH to be realised and applied notwithstanding a prior equitable interest or right of which LCH did not have notice at the time the collateral was received . |
| 27 | The system of personalised in-bureau training that has been described above could not be sustained and developed without the two-tier system of area training officers supported by area tutors and many in-bureau tutors . |
| 28 | The improvement should be sustained and continue into the foreseeable future ’ , he added . |
| 29 | National policy must therefore be crafted and implemented in the clear knowledge of the international structures of particular industries and the strength of individual firms seeking market access . |
| 30 | This means that the company in question must be formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 or under the former Companies Acts … |