Example sentences of "[conj] is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harsh reality has arrived , or is due to arrive next year . |
| 2 | When the husband or wife reaches 65 ( or is due to become 65 before 5 April 1993 ) , the allowance is increased to £2,465 . |
| 3 | When the husband or wife reaches 75 ( or is due to become 75 before 5 April 1993 ) , the allowance is increased to £2,505 . |
| 4 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 5 | Or is Siban trying to tell us all something ? ’ |
| 6 | He is , of course , much more than the most prodigious goalkicker the international game has seen or is likely to see , given the reduction in the number of penalty offences . |
| 7 | The framework will therefore be better suited to simulating the consequences of different kinds of economic behaviour rather than determining what form economic behaviour has or is likely to take . |
| 8 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 9 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 10 | Any other arrestable offence may be serious if its commission has led to or is likely to lead to : ( a ) serious harm to the security of the state or public order ; ( b ) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( c ) death ; ( d ) serious injury ; ( e ) substantial financial gain or serious financial loss . |
| 11 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 12 | A type attribute may be used to distinguish amongst divisions in some respect other than their hierarchic position : the values for this attribute ( as for several others in the TEI scheme ) are not standardized , precisely because no consensus exists , or is likely to exist , as to a typology . |
| 13 | Graphs are often used to show information in a way that gives the reader a quick picture of what has been happening or is likely to happen , in the future . |
| 14 | However , anyone who is on the move , under stress or is likely to skip meals should think about taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for any deficiencies in diet . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 16 | Further , the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 are clear and they are mandatory in form , to the extent that if the justice is not of the opinion that the person is not likely to surrender to custody , or has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , the justice has to grant him bail subject to the same conditions , if any , as were originally imposed . |
| 17 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 18 | A clause such as the following will be included : To the best of the Managers ' knowledge , information and belief no event has occurred or is likely to occur which will or could give rise to any claim under the warranties or indemnities given or to be given under or pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement . |
| 19 | Reliance is placed upon the statutory duty of the Independent Broadcasting Authority to ensure that nothing is transmitted on the commercial airwaves which is in bad taste or is likely to prove offensive to public feeling . |
| 20 | Thus contempt is wider than simply breach of any of Parliament 's privileges but can consist of any conduct which interferes with the workings of Parliament or is likely to bring Parliament or its members into disrepute . |
| 21 | The policy of the solicitors ' governing body is encapsulated in Rule 1 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 ( and of earlier editions ) : A solicitor shall not directly or indirectly obtain or attempt to obtain instructions for professional work or permit another person to do so on his behalf , or do anything in the course of practising as a solicitor , in any manner which compromises or impairs or is likely to compromise or impair any of the following : ( a ) the solicitor 's independence or integrity ; ( b ) a person 's freedom to instruct a solicitor of his choice ; ( c ) the solicitor 's duty to act in the best interests of the client ; ( d ) the good repute of the solicitor or of the solicitor 's profession ; ( e ) the solicitor 's proper standard of work ; ( f ) the solicitor 's duty to the Court . |
| 22 | Specifically , the Commissioner may grant assistance when trade union members complain that their union has failed or is likely to fail to observe the requirements of its own rule book in relation to various defined activities . |
| 23 | uncertainty about ends or focus , i.e. what the output from the activity is aimed at or is likely to result in , and |
| 24 | It became evident that there was more reality in Brigadoon than in the myth that Scotland is , or is likely to become , a Tory-free zone . |
| 25 | it is satisfied that the company is or is likely to become unable to pay its debts ; and |
| 26 | Administrative receivership has to be viewed in the context of the whole range of remedies now available in situations where a company is , or is likely to become , unable to pay its debts . |
| 27 | Under section 8 the court has power to make an administration order in relation to a company if the court ( a ) is satisfied that the company is , or is likely to become , unable to pay its debts ( within the meaning given to that expression by section 123 of the Act of 1986 ) , and ( b ) considers that the making of an order under the section would be likely to achieve one or more of the specified purposes . |
| 28 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 29 | the child is suffering significant harm [ or is likely to suffer harm ] , and |
| 30 | ( a ) Child at risk Under s47 a local authority must investigate the circumstances of any child who lives or is found in its area : ( i ) if informed that the child is the subject of an emergency protection order or is in police protection ; or ( ii ) it has reasonable cause to suspect that the child is suffering , or is likely to suffer , significant harm ( s47(1) ) . |