Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of exposure to light are difficult to accelerate in the laboratory . |
| 2 | The decision of an inferior tribunal with a limited jurisdiction and a limited function to perform is capable of creating an estoppel for all purposes , subject to the principles that it can not conclusively determine the limits of its own jurisdiction and that a public official can not be debarred from performing his statutory duty . |
| 3 | The court held that there was no evidence to suggest that the decision to exclude was unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds . |
| 4 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 5 | The mere intention to obstruct is insufficient . |
| 6 | The most important condition to exclude is colonic carcinoma . |
| 7 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |
| 8 | Nalgo , whose Stockton branch chairman Steve Matthews said members were not consulted on the proposals , is seeking an urgent meeting with council leader Bob Gibson over moves to axe 38 jobs in a bid to avoid being rate-capped . |
| 9 | The best tape to use is matt ‘ invisible ’ mending tape , as standard Sellotape rapidly becomes brittle and splits . |
| 10 | It is sonar ‘ visibility ’ , the term to use is difficult to find , because of our own personal human associations , and because our human language relates to our mental and sensory experiences , not to that of a bat or a whale . |
| 11 | He considered this action to have been successful , as the right wingtip struck the ground first , followed by the nose . |
| 12 | Erm her blood pressure was being , being depressed er by some other , you know , blood pressure regulator and erm one of the side effects of hormone replacement may be , yeah , that people 's susceptibility to migraine is heightened . |
| 13 | The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins . |
| 14 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby there was no doubt that the defendant knew of business secrets but the court decided they were far too complicated and detailed for the defendant to have been able to carry them away in his head and as there was no evidence of actual copying , this part of the claim failed . |
| 15 | I have no detail of what individual Liberal Democrat councillors in Brent did , but , if it was perceived by the electorate to have been wrong , they would have undoubtedly paid the political consequences at the following election . |
| 16 | The Hungarian authorities consider the experiment to have been successful . |
| 17 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 18 | But our readiness to act is clear , and our willingness to deliver is illustrated by our early success with our half of the original commitments . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal , after a full consideration of Lonrho , held that the omission of an allegation of intention to injure was fatal to the claim . |
| 20 | Disco offered an alternative to rock 's boy-meets-girl party conventions and Britain 's dance-floor poseurs , Bowie boys , and girls initially , became the New Romantics , a movement spawning such ambiguous and even asexual stars as Boy George and Marilyn . |
| 21 | Whilst each episode of cystitis may be helped by remedies selected from these tables , the tendency for the condition to recur is unlikely to be affected . |
| 22 | The teacher 's aid can help , however , by ensuring that equipment that is difficult for a child to handle is available when needed and properly stored when not in use . |
| 23 | Admitting that " the existing system of serf owning " had to change was so commonplace in mid-nineteenth-century Russia that its capacity to shock was minimal . |
| 24 | She had informed Elizabeth Mowbray of the girls ' exchange of identities — information which the duchess had received thankfully , believing the exchange to have been necessary for Anne 's safety . |
| 25 | Secondly , the earlier reference to NAEP 's consensual goals reveals another problem with goal-setting . |
| 26 | That all living creatures possess a capacity to learn is apparent from the way they find their way around an environment . |
| 27 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 28 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 29 | He justifies this argument not through reference to rock 's mass public but because its quasi-oral modes of composition and dissemination result , he says , in collective authorship lose links between musicians and audiences , constant variation of materials , and a spontaneous , ‘ Dionysian ’ approach to performance . |
| 30 | This method , which is demonstrated below , is very artificial and the conditions which cause the loop to terminate are unclear . |