Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
| 2 | Some indication of the position which the courts may take is provided by the recent , although pre-1989 Act , decision : |
| 3 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 4 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 5 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 6 | One of the first issues the parties will face is the decision of whether to buy assets or shares . |
| 7 | However a DSS Press Release states that the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Social Security Advisory Committee to adopt an alternative approach whereby the circumstances under which unlimited arrears can apply is more explicitly defined . |
| 8 | What form these certificates will take is not known , but maybe it could be something along the lines of : ‘ This is the spot where I flattened … ’ |
| 9 | If you produce a proposal , the first thing a lot of British engineers will do is tell you what 's wrong with it . |
| 10 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 11 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 12 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 13 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 14 | An equally crucial ( though much less often discussed ) area in which errors can arise is that relating to the interview itself — to the content of the schedule and the measurement and/or classification of the resulting data . |
| 15 | In a poststructuralist development of the idea , it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless ‘ free play of signifiers ’ . |
| 16 | A second reason why private and social costs may diverge is a production or consumption externality arising from the production of the capital good . |
| 17 | Any legitimacy that nuclear weapons may have is in respect not of their potential use , but as regards their possession as a means of ‘ deterrence ’ . |
| 18 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 19 | That governments must govern is recognised throughout the Convention and its protocols ( which have extended the scope of the Convention into areas such as education and property rights ) . |
| 20 | One question policyholders should ask is — if the company did underperform last year , has this limited its options ? |
| 21 | What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth . |
| 22 | What many dealers would appreciate is software that can be used by virtually anyone yet produce the same basic results as a complicated program such as PageMaker . |
| 23 | This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control . |
| 24 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 25 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |
| 26 | The best the psychologists can do is describe the process as one of positive re-inforcement — which means that if you like something , you will tend to do it again . |
| 27 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 28 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 29 | The Pacific , once merely big , is now endowed with very considerable power which seems likely to grow and grow , to a pitch that mathematicians will say is amenable to extrapolation , but which is actually , in terms of its effects , quite unimaginable . |
| 30 | The first sign of how bad things will get is when Daisy Chainsaw allow their crap squatmates — the worst performance artists in Britain — FACT ! — to flap around to clompingly useless New Beat for the best part of half an hour . |