Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In outline the algorithm is as follows : — |
| 2 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 3 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 4 | The effect of the defence is that the plaintiff consents to exempt the defendant from a duty of care which would otherwise have been owed . |
| 5 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 6 | The argument for the defence was that the defendant , being inside , was not ‘ in the vicinity of ’ the place , which meant outside . |
| 7 | The defence was that there was no consideration for the promise because the plaintiff was bound by his existing contract to assist in sailing the ship . |
| 8 | The defence was that the action was time barred . |
| 9 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 10 | The response is that since the words relate to the past , later debts are not included . |
| 11 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 12 | The response is that he 's very upset and concerned about the women . |
| 13 | The response was that we do not get involved in trying i in to get foreign administrations to try to tell them what decisions they should make . |
| 14 | Er and er well I look to myself and my family to make sure that er I do n't just jump without fully reviewing the opportunity 's that are available for me . |
| 15 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 16 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 17 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 18 | On Tellenor , according to the Jura alien , they have mastered the technique of passing through solid objects — one of the things Mr Marr said was worst about the Tellenoreans was that you never quite knew when they were there . |
| 19 | The great ‘ secret ’ of the rituals is that the Piaroa are cannibals ; for the meat they eat each day is human in its origin . |
| 20 | Well yeah but the reason I think you can condemn the excesses is because it 's |
| 21 | The likely terms of the split are that Solvay will take over sole ownership of Interox , the price being Laporte 's takeover of the organics and persulphates and cancellation or sale of most of Solvay 's shareholding in Laporte . |
| 22 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 23 | The essence of the change is that the intermediating function between social and economic forces is no longer one that a government can renounce or let go by default . |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the change is that there is now a proposal to cut a road through the wood whereas 40 years ago there was not ? |
| 25 | So radical has the change been that Freddie and Caroline are sometimes at Prue 's dinner-parties now . |
| 26 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 27 | The advantage of own brands for the retailer is that they can only be purchased from that particular company . |
| 28 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 29 | So the upshot of the trial was that Mr. Steed was restored to the position of registered proprietor but had failed to upset the building society 's charge . |
| 30 | The problem in the Highlands is that the population has radically decreased and hence schools are no longer as viable as they once were . |