Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simile and metaphor , then , serve to form a bridge between the experience a writer wants to convey and the reader 's own experience . |
| 2 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |
| 3 | The defendant has to show that the plaintiff assumed the legal risk of injury in circumstances where the defendant 's act would otherwise amount to negligence . |
| 4 | The essential differences are ( 1 ) the shift in the burden of proof : in defamation the defendant has to prove that the defamatory words were true ; in malicious falsehood the plaintiff must prove that the words are false . |
| 5 | With the onset of summer , the snow starts to melt and the mountain goat begins to lose its thick , shaggy winter coat . |
| 6 | Along with the press and promotion staff , the marketing department has to ensure that every potential record-buyer is aware of their artists ' work . |
| 7 | However , it has still to be spelt out , for instance , whether and how an applicant has to prove that an object was legally and lawfully located in or dispatched from a country . |
| 8 | Thus research tends to show that the Stock Exchange exhibits weak and semi-strong forms of efficiency . |
| 9 | It is true that this procedure can force a minister to answer for what his department intends to do but the Commons are denied any real measure of control . |
| 10 | The guidance appears to suggest that the approach to urban and rural industrial and commercial developments should be basically similar . |
| 11 | It appears to be that the generally unskilled nature of the labour force helps to determine that the processes of UK industry are , by present international standards , relatively simple and low productivity ones ; the country is locked into comparatively simple technology because it does not have the technical expertise to use technology to the fullest effect . |
| 12 | If the cashier wishes to verify if a cheque is acceptable , a telephone call to the hotel 's bank giving details of the cheque , the drawer 's name , and the branch on which it is to be drawn , the bank will make contact with the drawer 's bank and establish whether the cheque is acceptable . |
| 13 | The third issue , which arises if the defendant fails to establish that the transfer was void , is , first , whether the court has power under section 82 to order rectification as against the building society and , second , if it does , whether the power should be exercised . |
| 14 | John Bagley , formerly Curator of the Aeronautical Gallery at the Science Museum writes to say that the model now resides there . |
| 15 | Management needs to ensure that the expensive and long-term project has a good strategic pay-off . |
| 16 | The , the erm conservative tends to believe that the free market should set people 's wages and that the supply and demand of labour and the number of people looking for jobs in an industry will affect the level that the wages reach . |
| 17 | Such observations have value because , although the situations may be diverse , the patterning tends to recur and the web of kinship which links the individuals together persists all the way through . |
| 18 | This approach is fundamentally different from the approach adopted in the United States , where the law tends to assume that the very existence of monopoly power is against the public interest . |
| 19 | The Chancellor seems to think that the statistics on unemployment , bankruptcies and industrial production are figments of a pessimistic national imagination . |
| 20 | In company law it can equally be argued that by casting trustee-like duties on directors so that they are required to act only in the interests of the shareholders the law aims to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented . |
| 21 | Now the results of experiments on habituation of the OR have been taken as supporting the latter assertion — dishabituation fails to occur if the changed context is familiar . |
| 22 | At each phase , the project team has to show that the new car meets predetermined criteria , including financial targets , before moving on to the next . |
| 23 | If small groups of say three pupils per microcomputer , the teacher has to decide whether the program will run without intervention . |
| 24 | In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given . |
| 25 | Where the knowledge depends upon special circumstances of which not everyone is aware , the plaintiff has to prove that the article was published to persons who were able to make the identifying connection . |
| 26 | The ADSS wants to examine whether the rise in hospital admissions is the results of cuts in local authority children 's services . |
| 27 | In fact , the article seems to conclude that the women 's movement is alive and well : it 's just the concept of feminism that 's expired . |
| 28 | If the author elects to say that a given link is a dead-end , then the traversal algorithm will not follow that link . |
| 29 | The author tries to prove that the disaster was also the main cause of the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The court has to decide whether the mother 's refusal was outside the band of what a reasonable mother might do . |