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 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |
| 14 | It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago . |
| 15 | It would just have been possible to detour and commit the murder in Cross Street , but it would have been a very tight schedule indeed . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the characteristics of pill users no longer observed were similar to never users no longer observed , so comparison between contraceptive groups also remains valid . |
| 17 | The idea that science teaching can be more effective if you start by eliciting the ideas which children already have was new to many of the teachers participating in the SPACE Project . |
| 18 | Land warfare sixty-five years after Waterloo would still have been comprehensible to Napoleon . |
| 19 | But if the additional candidate is not elected , he will still have been useful to his party provided that he has been able to collect votes which on his elimination are transferred to stronger running-mates still in need of them . |
| 20 | The IPG identified additional work to be done before the changeover : claimants may still have been entitled to special payments before they were abolished or entitled to benefits that they were not claiming that would affect the amount of transitional payments they would receive on transfer to the new system . |
| 21 | Some of the scenes in the film of people at play are almost comical now because of their seriousness , though harsh lights and cameras could hardly have been conducive to a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 22 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
| 23 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 24 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 25 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 26 | Such people would always have been willing to subordinate their political action to unionist unity , if it could be recreated on a sound basis . |
| 27 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 28 | Straw that would once have been used to bed the cattle down is now put into a boiler as fuel to heat the offices . |
| 29 | This marked a shift from the integrated singular order within which the bardic and similar orders were first defined , though in its disputed origins the guild may once have been close to them . |
| 30 | This grandmother can be a heroine for me now , although it would have meant more to have been closer to her in life . |