Example sentences of "unless it is [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brownie points for guts , if true ; but public confidence is not going to be restored in the integrity of official information unless it is seen to be properly independent of the government machine that is now exerting its improper pressures behind closed doors . |
| 2 | Limitation of family size will not happen unless it can be done without trespassing on conscience and unless practicable means are available ; and unless it is perceived to be in the families ' interests to do so ( Coale 1973 ) . |
| 3 | A care order other than an interim order will continue in force until the child 's eighteenth birthday unless it is brought to an end sooner ( s91(11) ) . |
| 4 | Secondly , recent changes in the structure of the civil service with the development of the agency model through the Next Steps programme will not improve matters unless it is linked to changing roles and relationships . |
| 5 | Preference shares may carry the right to conversion into ordinary shares and will usually be redeemable to provide the institutions with an exit equating to repayment of a loan ; ( d ) determining the amount of loan finance required from the banks , taking into account the provisions of ss338 and 349 TA 1988 , which require annual interest payable by Newco to be subject to deduction of basic rate income tax at source unless it is paid to a bank carrying on a bona fide banking business in the United Kingdom and is in respect of an " advance " . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd said in Oxford : ‘ A period of soul-searching does nobody any harm unless it is prolonged to the point where it becomes weakening and ridiculous . ’ |
| 7 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |