Example sentences of "[conj] is [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor .
2 On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support .
3 Actaeon sees and Actaeon is torn , wrote Harsnet , but Ovid in his exile by the Black Sea neither sees the Goddess nor is torn by the dogs .
4 We have a homework policy that is accepted in the schools .
5 Its proximity to the crags of the mighty Scoor-nan-Gillean , or ‘ Crag of the Young Men , ’ and to the stream that is fed by the waters that gather on its massive ramparts , are a great attraction .
6 The Sufis have an explanation for this eternal something that is discerned by the mystics and can also be discerned by anyone who wants to develop his emotions .
7 The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides .
8 If , on the other hand , one focuses on the production that is undertaken by the residents of that country , the income earned by nationals from abroad has to be added to the gross domestic product , to arrive at the gross national product .
9 One problem remains , however — how do you find training that is geared to the needs of the individuals ?
10 Human beings must everywhere produce and reproduce both themselves and their means of subsistence , and they must also find the means to communicate with one another not just with language but through the coding that is built into the reciprocities that manifest relationship .
11 Explain the allegorical meaning that is given in the Gospels .
12 A serious problem has emerged in the area over a period of months , and a series of reports have been issued , concluding with a report by the National Rivers Authority on effluent that is poured into the lagoons at Grassmoor 40,000 tonnes of it a year .
13 When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates .
14 Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state .
15 He is the only priest we need ‘ seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens , Jesus the Son of God . ’
16 If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute .
17 To calculate the amount of fabric that is left for the pleats , deduct the pole length from the finished fabric width , and divide the result by the number of spaces .
18 Everyone has heard that the mustard giants make their money from the amount of the condiment that is left on the sides of our plates .
19 Laughter is a means of expressing judgement that is directed at the characters who fail in some way in the text .
20 similarity between children in the sequence in which learning takes place , despite considerable variation in the range and quality of the language that is modelled in the utterances that individual children hear ( Wells , 1985 ) .
21 The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in .
22 Currently , less than 3000 children in the US , who are deficient in growth hormone , are being treated with hormone that is derived from the pituitaries of dead people .
23 MARK RAMPRAKASH could leave Middlesex at the end of the season — in a desperate bid to save a career that is heading for the rocks .
24 If a profit is equivalent to surplus labour , then the capitalist , in keeping a larger share of the surplus than is given to the workers , is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from them , although what amounts to theft is written into an agreement and therefore not recognised as such .
25 The fact that lands were available for purchase presupposes that there were sellers as well as buyers , and much less is known about who these were , and why they were selling , than is known about the purchasers .
26 OWNERS of motor vehicles are sitting ducks for avaricious chancellors who already screw them for far more cash in fuel and vehicle tax than is spent on the roads .
27 The other advantage of affray for the prosecutor is that it requires a less exacting proof of mens rea than is required for the offences against the person .
28 The types of behaviour to which this motivation is said to lead include employing a larger staff than is required for the purposes of the business , lavish expenditure on office accommodation , transport , and various forms of entertainment , and on image- building ( but not cost-justified ) advertising , and charitable giving .
29 On the Conservative side this element is based in the Smoking Room , and is composed of the men with estates or directorships who do not see the House as their primary source of prestige or income .
30 Continuing expansion of those services both supports and is reinforced by the airports authority 's ‘ Manchester Connects ’ policy which promotes Manchester as an international hub .
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