Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This authority has been doubted because of the conflict that would arise were the receiver and the directors to have different views on whether an action should be brought and also on the handling of any counterclaim . |
| 2 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 3 | Alternatively , an SBU may be following a product-differentiation policy , in which case , depending on the type of industry , progress in product development and field tests , success in taking out patents , the results of early market-research tests and various other indicators provide early signals of whether the investment policy is likely to be successful . |
| 4 | STRONG reservations about whether the Government would provide enough resources to make the Environmental Protection Bill work tempered enthusiasm for its contents yesterday . |
| 5 | There is a close link between the vexed questions of whether an offer of employment is ‘ suitable ’ and whether a refusal is ‘ unreasonable ’ . |
| 6 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 7 | ‘ I keep giving myself little deadlines for when the transplant will happen , ’ she says . |
| 8 | John twitched his great shoulders as if a wasp had landed on them . |
| 9 | By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock . |
| 10 | It all sounds as if the compiler technology — an essential element of the Pentium 's claimed performance benefits over the 80486 — is n't quite there yet . |
| 11 | It all sounds as if the compiler technology — an essential element of the Pentium 's claimed performance benefits over the 486 — is n't quite there yet . |
| 12 | The Board had long debates about whether the content of degrees in the areas should be for or in librarianship , what the academic content of study should be , and what career opportunities would be open to students if they were not subject graduates . |
| 13 | They each filled in their respective forms as if the van belonged to the trader and as if the customer wished to acquire the van on hire purchase terms . |
| 14 | But there are growing doubts about whether the plan will deliver as much irrigation water as promised and about its effect on the Missolonghi wetland at the river mouth , designated as of international importance under the Ramsar Convention . |
| 15 | The position is the same if the offender is committed for some offences under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 and for some under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 ; the restrictions in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 have no application to the offences subject to committal under section 38 , as the Crown Court can sentence for those offences as if the offender has just been convicted of them on indictment , but do apply to the offences committed under section 56 . |
| 16 | Then he moved on , stepping carefully in " his heavy boots as if the floor might have been sown with mines . |
| 17 | Publicly there were muzzy plans for when the city populations took to the skies en masse . |
| 18 | Femininity is fine , but suggestiveness is n't — the office is not the place for braless nipples or knickerless minis , and if you 've any doubts about whether an outfit is unsuitable , do n't wear it ; |
| 19 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 20 | However , there is disagreement amongst Marxist feminists about whether the oppression of women is simply a consequence of an unjust economic system or whether the oppression of women is universal , but modified under differing economic conditions . |
| 21 | All three of them were stiff , with darkened faces as if the blood had been drawn upwards to the skin by capillary action , and there oxidized . |
| 22 | Steam rose here and there , not in puffy , damp , friendly clouds as if a kettle was boiling , but in hissing , angry spurts , as if some unseen being was venting its spleen . |
| 23 | A recent example of the first category appeared in a contract for the construction of offshore oil exploration facilities in the North Seatechnical disputes about whether the work or the facilities complied with the contract were to be referred to an expert . |
| 24 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 25 | Judicial views on whether an agreement that the plaintiff will waive any claim against the defendant is necessary , are mixed . |
| 26 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 27 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |