Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it apply to a public utility which may or may not appear to be similar to a local government ? |
| 2 | DNA and amino-acid sequence comparisons of DRP and dystrophin show the overall structure to be similar with a putative actin-binding domain in the first 250 amino acids , a long region containing multiple repeats followed by a cysteine-rich domain . |
| 3 | Large integrated securities houses were thought to be necessary as an average size broker without a market-maker could feasibly find itself advising on equities , yet the business of transactions could easily be carried out elsewhere . |
| 4 | Although the SSL continues to receive legal deposit material and some foreign periodicals on exchange via the Royal Society of Edinburgh , funding for purchases is still not at the level which the Trustees believe to be necessary for a major national scientific and business information resource . |
| 5 | As we have seen , the Gospels were written to meet that need , so by examining carefully their contents we will gain an overall impression of the range of information which the early Christians deemed to be necessary for an adequate ongoing commitment to be made . |
| 6 | It does not seem to be necessary for an ad to be at all well remembered for it to have an effect . |
| 7 | It seems also to have been hoped that detailed and embarrassing cross-examination of the complainant as to whether penetration had actually taken place would cease to be necessary with a reform of this kind . |
| 8 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 9 | On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions . |
| 10 | Given his attitude , then , Beveridge was likely to be favourable towards a retirement condition . |
| 11 | As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible . |
| 12 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 13 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 14 | They have Alan Watt and Shade Munro in the engine room , but will have to be alert against a Currie outfit which has grown in style and stature throughout the season . |
| 15 | Biocontrol reckons this to be much cheaper than current eye-tracking and visualisation systems and to be suitable for a host of applications ranging from medical research through computer games to lie detectors . |
| 16 | POLICE are warning Alton office workers and shop employees to be vigilant following a spate of ‘ walk-in ’ thefts . |
| 17 | Commander George Churchill-Coleman , head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad , last night appealed for the public to be vigilant as a result of ‘ this timely reminder ’ . |
| 18 | If there is one unchallenged law of personal computing it is that , given half a chance , they will make something that used to be simple into a completely bewildering nightmare ! |
| 19 | At the begining of the second half England again had cause to be grateful as a marvellous five-man move graced by Tarasiewicz 's stunning volleyed pass ended with Ziober drifting a benign shot over . |
| 20 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 21 | The poet praises Beowulf by linking his killing of the monster Grendel with the feats of Sigmund , who was clearly expected to be familiar to an English audience . |
| 22 | Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . |
| 23 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 24 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 25 | In relation to white British culture in particular , various factors combine to create a sense of unreliability in in-law support : the ambiguity about whether the in-laws are ‘ really ’ part of your kin group ; the possibility that the linking third party will be removed at some stage ; the expectation that in-law relationships are likely to be tricky at an interpersonal level . |
| 26 | This power also has proved to be potent on a truly universal level , with France in particular warming to the man 's work and awarding him its prestigious Chevalier of Arts and Letters , an honour doubtless of special significance to a writer who lists Flaubert and Stendhal as primary influences . |
| 27 | Maintaining stability of the water chemistry is another key requirement to be successful with a marine system . |
| 28 | To be successful in a round-robin tournament , therefore , a strategy has to be a good competitor against all the other strategies that people happen to have submitted . |
| 29 | 85% found ECAs helpful in clarifying standards and 92% found the ECA role to be appropriate to a devolved assessment system . |
| 30 | The automatic recognition of handwriting is necessary as a natural mode of communication with computers , and appears to be appropriate for a number of applications . |