Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | An open mind and a willingness to share are essential if we wish to tackle the current problems affecting medical education . |
| 2 | Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important , because working with a portastudio and a mixing desk in the rehearsal room will teach a novice engineer a lot about sound mixing . |
| 3 | Two teenagers who were badly injured when a horse bolted are to begin a legal fight for compensation . |
| 4 | Accessibility and a readiness to listen are not , to be sure , incompatible with a fundamentally authoritarian structure of power and government . |
| 5 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 6 | Choose the five that you as a group think are the most important . |
| 7 | The natural or foreseeable consequences of a dam bursting are , inter alia , the inundation of subjacent land , damage to buildings , roads and personal injuries . |
| 8 | The family of a five year old boy who was crushed when a wall collapsed are to sue their local council . |
| 9 | Regulation 15 : A vehicle shall not by regulation 12 be prevented from stopping on a zebra controlled are — |
| 10 | BIGGER , brighter premises and a service to match are what Halifax Property Services in Finaghy are offering . |
| 11 | The sociologist is interested in what members of a society feel are social problems , but this does not define , for him or her , the scope and limits of enquiry . |
| 12 | This confirms that although the junctions a subject recalls are the ones at which they reported subjective risk , they are also the busy ones and the ones the subject regards as likely to be the most dangerous in other conditions ; this means that actual feelings of risk may not be solely responsible for the effect . |
| 13 | Secondly , the epistemological problems that such a reformulation generates are confronted without creating a division between ‘ science ’ and ‘ ideology ’ or ‘ true ’ and ‘ false ’ consciousness . |
| 14 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
| 15 | ‘ Checks and balances guard against undue concentrations of power and make certain that all the interests which boards have a duty to consider are properly taken into account . ’ |
| 16 | Checks and balances guard against undue concentrations of power and make certain that all the interests which boards have a duty to consider are properly taken into account . ’ |
| 17 | A ra a lot going are they ? |
| 18 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 19 | It held that it was open to any aggrieved party to challenge before the European Court a decision by the Commission ordering production of documents which a party considers are privileged , and the Court has power to grant interim measures to prevent disclosure of those documents to the Commission until the dispute on privilege is resolved . |
| 20 | In such circumstances the need for warning and an opportunity to improve are much less apparent . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The subsection confers on the licensing board for the area where the premises to which an application relates are situated jurisdiction over the application . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) ( a ) A licensing board shall refuse an application of the type described in subsection ( 2 ) below if it finds that one or more of the following grounds for refusal , being competent grounds , applies to it ( in ) that the applicant , or the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the applicant will manage the premises or , in the case of an application to which section 11 of this Act applies , the applicant or the employee or agent named in the application is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence ; ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their location , their character and condition , the nature and extent of the proposed use of the premises , and the persons likely to resort to the premises ; ( c ) that the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor is likely to cause undue public nuisance , or a threat to public order and safety ; ( d ) that , having regard to the facilities of the same or similar kind already available in the locality , or to facilities of the same or similar kind , in respect of which the provisional grant of a new licence is in force , which are to be provided in the locality , the grant of an application would result in the Over-provision of such facilities ; and otherwise shall grant the application . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 24 | The interviewee has to assume that all the questions an interviewer asks are asked with a reason , although some may seem irrelevant and some unnecessarily personal . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , a willingness and an ability to bargain are essential in a president who aspires , as they all must , to be ‘ on top in fact as well as name ’ , and who hopes to bring about significant public policy change . |