Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Pearlman was wrong because in that case the county court did have the ability to determine conclusively interrelated questions of law and fact .
2 In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance .
3 ‘ Slow but steady — slow , because the presence of what the Admiral calls your friend the timing device does have a rather inhibitory effect and we 're probably taking some quite needless precautions as far as acoustic levels are concerned .
4 So in this last example the participle form does match up and produces a grammatically well-formed sentence .
5 On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision .
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