Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A prospective purchaser would presumably be hesitant to proceed in such circumstances without adequate insurance protection .
2 I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided .
3 Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years .
4 Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed .
5 For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet .
6 It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them .
7 In Fig. 14.1 , with interest rate r 1 , it will be profitable to invest in all projects up to I 1 , with I 1 itself breaking even .
8 II adjusted its unproductive consumption and accumulation of surplus-value to accommodate to this pattern .
9 In this short space it is not possible to go into any depth on the nature of particular natural hazards but only to highlight those aspects relevant to GIS .
10 On the autobahn or the test track , this translates into an uncanny ability to accelerate strongly to 140 mph with sufficient in reserve to cruise at that speed for as long as conditions allow .
11 In Section 6.3 , we showed that it is possible to pivot from any BFS to any other BFS through a sequence of BFSs .
12 It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement .
13 Gill-net entanglement affects coastal dolphin and porpoise species worldwide , and these animals ' low reproductive rates make them ill-suited to cope with this type of threat .
14 As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers .
15 Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House .
16 It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account .
17 It is possible to compensate to some extent for the lower sensitivity by reducing R2 to 470Ω in value .
18 Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges .
19 It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm .
20 ‘ It would be inconceivable , in the opinion of the Court , that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees , that is access to a court .
21 Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain .
22 It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts .
23 Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability .
24 Is it possible to extrapolate from this decision , and to say that an offence is committed whenever the constable is seeking to exercise a statutory power of arrest such as , for example , the power of arrest conferred by section 5 ?
25 So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all .
26 Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world .
27 Mocking laughing in this position is truly shocking .
28 If repetitive sequences are to be probed , because of the stronger expected hybridization signal , it may be possible to work with fewer slides and mitotic cells but the need for banding remains .
29 While it may be possible to provide for most eventualities from a number of well-sited CMHCs within a district , a full community mental health service should offer a choice of convenient ways to get specialist help in addition to CMHCs , for example through the local GP health centre or surgery , at a local outpatient clinic or at home .
30 ‘ Both the Eldar and the Slann should be grateful to know about this weapon which would one day be launched against them . ’
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