Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single person can quite easily spend a week at a health farm or clinic without any feeling of loneliness or of being out-of-step with everyone else . |
| 2 | Rather they represent the rational choices of high-ranking employees , acting in the corporation 's interests , to intend directly to violate the criminal law or governmental regulations , or to be indifferent to the outcome of their action or inaction , even though it might result in human lives obliterated , bodies mangled , or life-savings lost . |
| 3 | It really is very close to being Britain 's number one industry , and will be the world 's largest industry by the end of this decade and to turn our backs on it , or to be half-hearted about it , erm is , I would suggest , foolish . |
| 4 | Many States have made such declarations , subject , however , to a variety of conditions , mainly requiring the requested State to be informed about , or to be present at , the taking of the evidence . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly . |
| 6 | The orbitals in these compounds can be considered to lie predominantly on the metal ( or metals in a polynuclear species ) or on the ligands , or to be involved in metal-ligand interactions and so be shared between metal and ligand . |
| 7 | The police were not to be informed of any of these arrangements or to be involved in the payoff in any way . |
| 8 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 9 | to produce any documents other than particular documents specified in the Letter of Request as being documents appearing to the requested court to be , or to be likely to be , in his possession , custody or power . |
| 10 | An order may not be made under section 2 requiring a person to state what documents relevant to the proceedings to which the application relates are , or have been , in his possession , custody or power ; or to produce any documents other than particular documents specified in the order as being documents appearing to the High Court court to be , or to be likely to be , in his possession , custody or power . |
| 11 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 12 | Most people in Islington , councillors included , were unlikely to have read The Fish Report or to be aware of the arguments put forward in it . |
| 13 | Moreover the baked bread tends to collapse on cooling or to be uncooked in the centre . |
| 14 | ‘ What is more useful in art , to be bound up with mankind and the world , or to be wary of it ? ’ |
| 15 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 16 | Our rent levels have always been in line in the case of tenants guidelines and I of course there were savings that about is insufficient in in in areas . |
| 17 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 18 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 19 | Except to be thankful for the strength it had given her . |
| 20 | Agnes disliked rings on men , although to be fair to Husband — which she had no intention of being — she had little trouble in finding something to dislike about everybody from Six . |
| 21 | Theologians of intellectual standing have not — at least , not publicly — come to share those conclusions , nor to be amazed at the credulity of their nineteenth-century predecessors . |
| 22 | ‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose . |
| 23 | ‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose . |
| 24 | A : Journalists always make the assumption that to be married for a number of years is to be happily married for those years . |
| 25 | People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . |
| 26 | The knowledge of being adopted can have various effects — Triseliotis ( 1973 ) says that to be comfortable as an adoptee it is necessary to cope with both the loss of birth parents and their implicit rejection . |
| 27 | Now the fact that position is not a quality is certainly relevant to one 's awareness of the position of things ; it means that to be aware of a thing 's position it is logically necessary that one should be aware of how it stands in relation to something else . |
| 28 | They depend on skilled workers , modern machinery and electric power , rather than on being near to raw materials , coal mines or markets . |
| 29 | If a client proposes an asking price which appears unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement rather than to be involved in protracted negotiations which are likely to have little prospect of success . |
| 30 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |