Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The day we hold off because some geezer may be watching is the day we should change our line of business . |
| 3 | The reason for discussing the availability of judicial review before discussing the grounds on which decision may be reviewed is because the law of judicial review is more ‘ remedies-oriented ’ than private law . |
| 4 | However , the question how and by whom such elements in the curriculum should be taught is perhaps relatively easily answered . |
| 5 | And the Government 's preferred method by which this responsibility should be discharged is the introduction of " energy management systems " microprocessor-based products which allow fuel consumption ( and control over environmental conditions ) within buildings to be centralised and automated . |
| 6 | The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ . |
| 7 | It is further evidence that the issue of whether top roles should be split is complex , and that prevailing wisdom , which favours splitting the roles , should be challenged — something Rick Greenbury had the courage to do on his appointment as chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer . |
| 8 | The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) . |
| 9 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 10 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 11 | This is why I maintain that both when and how these funds will be spent is closely bound up with the question of morality . |
| 12 | The accuracy with which the pulses can be timed is such that the phase ( Fig. 8.7(b) ) can be carried across gaps in the data with an accuracy to better than 20 µs ; that is to better than . |
| 13 | The relationships between which modules are stored on which media items and which media units can be used is maintained within the Offline System . |
| 14 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 15 | One way in which the source of methane can be identified is to identify trace components of the gas that 'fingerprint' its source . |
| 16 | The time period that funds can be invested is critical in maximizing the returns from investments . |
| 17 | One reason that so few indicators can be shown is the all too frequent changes in the formulae used for allocation of elements of the GRE . |
| 18 | The final way in which the decision might be varied is on appeal . |
| 19 | The third way in which reliability might be breached is when , by judicious presentational techniques , a graph gives a more , or less , flattering view than is warranted by the underlying data . |
| 20 | A break with this doctrine was made by the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , now replaced by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , as amended in 1984 , and the present position is that the sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 21 | Three-mode lasers , especially in folded resonators , are probably more complicated than theorists would wish , but the class of lasers in which chaos of this type may be observed is probably very large , and such experiments may well prove useful in testing the universality of the " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 22 | Another form in which psalms may be sung is when they provide the basis of the words of worship songs , frequently but inaccurately called choruses . |
| 23 | The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it . |
| 24 | Time of supply Section 3(2) ( c ) states that the precise time to which reference should be made is when " the product was supplied by its producer to another " . |
| 25 | The question of whether the compulsory audit for small companies should be retained is one on which the views of practitioners dealing with small companies particularly deserved to be heard . |
| 26 | The choice of where clients with ulcerated limbs should be treated is extremely important . |
| 27 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 28 | Thus the crucial determiner of the therapeutic experiences to which the child will be exposed is whether or not the child is categorised as ‘ having ’ a particular condition . |
| 29 | As Task 55 suggests , another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title . |
| 30 | The second type of positive interaction that parents can be taught is how to reward good behaviour . |