Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The severity of this is mitigated ( for the sake of the clients ) by the permitted recovery by a solicitor whose practising certificate has lapsed of moneys paid or due to be paid on behalf of a client . |
| 2 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 3 | It 's not wrong or odd to be different , in fact it 's far wiser to think things out for yourself than just to blindly and unthinkingly follow the crowd . |
| 4 | Reinforcing this differential political power of the rich is the argument above that many poor people may feel they have no reason or right to be part of a redistributive society . |
| 5 | A public company has a major advantage over a private company in that only public companies are able to offer shares to the public at large , and where possible to be quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 7 | It seemed typical of previous British offers : so vague as to be almost meaningless or free to be interpreted in innumerable ways . |
| 8 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 9 | The municipality and the Imperial Household , less inclined for one reason or another to be parsimonious , added gas lighting to public spectacle by illuminating the city 's monuments on state occasions and holidays . |
| 10 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 11 | But you must be , or you must become , very much your own men and women because newspapers everywhere and all the other parts of the media are only , are just sitting there with baited breath aching for that phone to ring from you , to tell us things , because virtually anything which you get involved in , is likely in one way or another to be controversial . |
| 12 | Have you ever secretly flirted with the idea that it might be rather glamorous or exciting to be widowed young , to go blind , to have cancer or AIDS , to go bankrupt , to be burgled , to be a social outcast , to go crazy , to become homeless , to be a drug addict , even to commit suicide … ? |
| 13 | Surprisingly the 50 , or 47 to be exact , were chosen with scientific precision . |
| 14 | With many aspects of flying , we need to have reached a certain stage or standard to be able to appreciate the problems , or to understand and take in the facts . |
| 15 | Each aspect of a project must have a plan or standard to be monitored , against which are the budget for cost , programme for time and brief for performance . |
| 16 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 17 | In many cases , the common law will control Acts of Parliament , and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void : for when an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason , or repugnant , or impossible to be performed , the common law will control it , and adjudge such an Act to be void . |
| 18 | Is it to avoid confusion with other films of the same name or is it to give hapless viewers an idea of who they were dating , or supposed to be dating , at the time ? |
| 19 | ‘ The court may , on the application of the office-holder , summon to appear before it — ( a ) any officer of the company , ( b ) any person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company , or ( c ) any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company . |
| 20 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 21 | In these cases the clients were often in hospital at referral and were either physically or mentally too frail or ill to be discharged . |
| 22 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 23 | If such criticisms are valid , is a sterner , more restrictive approach either desirable or likely to be effective ? |
| 24 | Well , I was n't married or likely to be , as far as I could see . |
| 25 | Children — Care proceedings — Threshold conditions — Child in voluntary care placed with foster parents — Child previously at risk with mother — Local authority seeking care order — Whether condition that child ‘ is suffering ’ significant harm satisfied — Whether harm attributable to care given or likely to be given to child if order not made — Children Act 1989 ( c. 41 ) , s. 31(2) |
| 26 | ‘ that the harm , or likelihood of harm , is attributable to — ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; … |
| 27 | In contrast to this is the " new " demand for temporary workers said to be experienced , or likely to be experienced on an increasing scale , by enterprises in the manufacturing sector . |
| 28 | These include the effect on exports from the UK , and regional unemployment , as well as a ‘ catch-all ’ gateway ( b ) : restrictions may be permitted which would confer on the public as purchasers , consumers or users of any goods or services , other specific and substantial benefits or advantages enjoyed or likely to be enjoyed by them as such . |
| 29 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 30 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |