Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment . |
| 2 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 3 | So understanding is integral to faith , just as faith and understanding are both integral to experience . |
| 4 | To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 5 | Temporary workers hired for a fixed-term in excess of one year were not identified by WIRS , although other than in the academic/research area numbers so employed are likely to be small . |
| 6 | I wonder if deep down that peppery gentleman 's irritation might perhaps have been due to fear that once the gaff about whisky not being suitable for the kitchen was blown the master 's bottle would no longer be quite sacrosanct . |
| 7 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 8 | As will be seen in Chapter 7 , this itself could only have been due to current Roman catholic social teaching on mixed marriage . |
| 9 | This insurance does not cover any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war be declared or not ) , civil war , rebellion , revolution , insurrection or military or usurped power ( other than under Sections 2 , 3 & 6 ) while the Insured Person is away from the British Isles provided always that the cover so provided is subject to cancellation by the Insurer by giving seven days notice by registered letter to HCI Club Holidays . |
| 10 | The Labour Council , elected in 1982 , had as a stated policy aim that every child whose parents so wished was entitled to a pre-school place of some sort . |
| 11 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 12 | In punting , too , I have had a tendency to reach for too much length and so have been prone to slicing my kicks . |
| 13 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 14 | It is widely recognized among those involved with education that one of the most significant aspects of certification procedures is that aspects of educational endeavour which are not assessed are unlikely to be taken seriously by either teachers or pupils . |
| 15 | The play was financed ( see Syll. 1078 ) by the young politician Pericles , who can not have been indifferent to its pro-Themistoklean content . |
| 16 | The total impression is a nice balance between the colloquial , which might have led to bathos , and an over-polished style which would not have been appropriate to the subject . |
| 17 | These sudden changes of level could not have been conducive to the movement of carts and animals about the establishment . |
| 18 | The editorial was apparently written on the basis of inadequate information and some of the data , as outlined in this letter , may not have been available to Peter O Behan and B A G Haniffah . |
| 19 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 20 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 21 | Section 739(2) reads as follows : Where by virtue or in consequence of any such transfer , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , such an individual has , within the meaning of this section , power to enjoy , whether forthwith or in the future , any income of a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom which , if it were income of that individual received by him in the United Kingdom … would be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise , that income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be income of that individual for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 22 | " That income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be the income of that individual for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts " — the individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom can be chargeable under the section whether or not he receives the income . |
| 23 | " Capital sums " — section 739(3) ( 4 ) states : ( 3 ) Where , whether before or after any such transfer , such an individual receives or is entitled to receive any capital sum the payment of which is in any way connected with the transfer or any associated operation , any income which , by virtue or in consequence of the transfer , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , has become the income of a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be income of that individual for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 24 | In Parkhead John McGuire watched the black and white screen with a tense fascination that would not have been unfamiliar to Christopher Columbus when he first saw the West Indies float over the Caribbean horizon . |
| 25 | Indeed , this person 's role would not have been dissimilar to that undertaken by the present-day funeral director . |
| 26 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 27 | The loss of their lands was a blow not just to episcopal prestige and income but also to episcopal management and the pastoral care of a diocese ; it can not have been reassuring to any bishop to see how often temporalities were at the risk of malicious accusation or expedient suspicion . |
| 28 | Ancient knowledge of the existence , significance and power of particular places was preserved in secret as it would not have been acceptable to the Church or society at large . |
| 29 | Their defence of duress would not have been acceptable to a Scottish court . |
| 30 | Quite how hard , though , could not have been clear to Sir Denys Henderson when he took the chair at Britain 's biggest manufacturing company five years ago . |