Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes an inventory of forms , but not of contexts in which the forms arise — this would be a very difficult task as the forms often overlap and can cause confusion to the learner . |
| 2 | The majority further contend that a wife who has reported a rape by her husband to the police may subsequently regret having done so and may wish to be reconciled with him . |
| 3 | The majority now feel that , far from being irrelevant , the ‘ equality agenda ’ is crucial to influencing the long-term quality of working life for both women and men , and thus the credibility of the trade-union movement . |
| 4 | The contracts typically say that the decision of the expert is to be final and binding , and that is what the courts say it has to be , in the absence of fraud , partiality or mistake . |
| 5 | I 've never measured how long they stay under water , but tourists walking along the path to the waterfall often report that they think a bird is drowning ! |
| 6 | The discussions apparently vary as to just the chips , just boards or private labelling . |
| 7 | It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties . |
| 8 | However each can learn something from the others , and it is thanks to International co-operation on this level that the RNLI began to operate the Waveney ( originally an American coastguard design ) , and that the Canadians now build and operate the Arun class . |
| 9 | First , in what may be termed classic jurisdictional fact cases such as ‘ if a furnished tenancy , or resources , etc. , exist , you may … ’ the courts well presume that the term , if it is classified as a jurisdictional fact , has a meaning which will be determined by the judiciary and not by the public body . |
| 10 | When interpreting statutes the courts often announce that they are trying to discover ‘ the intention of the legislature . ’ |
| 11 | The courts now hold that any of America 's 50 states can snub new nuclear plants for economic or technological reasons unrelated to the safety or cost of the reactor itself . |
| 12 | Since the caterpillars have very bright distinctive colours , the birds quickly recognise that they are inedible and leave them alone . |
| 13 | But the functionalists also argue that the ideology which informs the common law approach is hostile to the positive aims of modern government , that the judiciary display a philosophical , cultural , or political bias when reviewing administrative action and therefore that new institutions with new personnel are required to develop a new jurisprudence for the modern age . |
| 14 | All those in favour of the proposals please show and all those against . |
| 15 | The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons . |
| 16 | The Ministry therefore feel that they can do nothing to restrict its spread , and will take no further action . |
| 17 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 18 | No , sire , I 'm afraid the rules clearly state that once a vote is taken , it is irrefutable . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , I 'm wearing subfusc which is the sort of uniform students of the university always wear when they 're taking exams , so it 's a familiar sight on the street of Oxford , but I 'm also wearing clerical bands , which are a sign of my office . |
| 20 | Many people in the West fondly believe that if Russia is denied high technology its future political activities will somehow be constrained . |
| 21 | The cities of the west only exist because the railway came through there . |
| 22 | The authorities plainly establish that he need not and can not do so . |
| 23 | The authorities also believe if these mercy missions continue it could present long term problems . |
| 24 | 449 at 451 , Cockburn C.J. said : The authorities clearly establish that if an agreement is made to compromise a disputed claim , forbearance to sue in respect of that claim is good consideration ; and whether proceedings to enforce the disputed claim have or have not been instituted makes no difference . |
| 25 | Whether Dixon J. 's analysis is right or wrong , the authorities certainly demonstrate that , as Cussen J. put it in Bank of Victoria Ltd. v. Mueller [ 1925 ] V.L.R. 642 , 651 : |
| 26 | The words of the subsection also imply that the judges are intended by Parliament to act as a form of brake upon any over-eagerness on the part of a Home Secretary when exercising the power of release . |
| 27 | The signals also indicate that these regions are free of gases and liquids . |
| 28 | When reviewers criticise software for not including such a facility the manufacturers often reply that it 's only journalists who are interested in this feature and that ‘ ordinary users ’ find a word count irrelevant . |
| 29 | Criteria referencing , on the other hand , looks in the written scripts for evidence of what the candidates actually know and can do , and marks are allocated on these grounds . |
| 30 | Here it 's obvious that money has been well spent on things that the animals actually need and use , with natural materials — and yet the public still gets a beautiful enclosure with good viewing facilities . ’ |