Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 2 | No stamp duty will be payable if the consideration for the latter is less than £60,000. ( b ) Completion of the abstract In those cases where it is recited that the wife has married the new husband , a marked copy of the marriage certificate or marked abstract thereof should be placed with the title documents ( Precedents 34 and 38 ) . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal , with regret , rejected their claim on the ground that , although the relevant statutory provision declared a dismissal to be unfair if the reason for it was that the employee proposed to join a trade union or take part in union activities , the provision was ‘ not concerned with an employer 's reactions to a trade union 's activities , but with his reactions to an individual employee 's activities in a trade union context ’ ( Sir John Donaldson MR ) . |
| 4 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 5 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 6 | In one sense , the characterisation of the transaction as being either sale or exchange may be important because the remedy for defective performance in exchange is not for the price , but rather a claim for unliquidated damages for non delivery . |
| 7 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 8 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 9 | You could see that he would be more than a match for some small female saint with no name . |
| 10 | A forecast from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that Japan 's economic growth in 1993 will be higher than the average for the six other leading industrial nations . |
| 11 | Export credit finance should be considered where a project requires capital goods and associated services to be imported because the term of the loan can sometimes be longer than the term for commercial funds |
| 12 | This may be relevant where the ground for claiming maladministration is failure of a local authority to take formal action in respect of odours amounting to a statutory nuisance , in view of the fact that an individual has the right to take summary action under s.99 of the Public Health Act 1936 in respect of a statutory nuisance . |
| 13 | In cases of breach of repairing covenants where three years or more of the lease remain unexpired a preliminary application for leave under s 1(3) of the Leasehold Property ( Repairs ) Act 1938 will be necessary before an action for forfeiture may be commenced . |
| 14 | I 'll be surprised if the option for another year is taken up . |
| 15 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 16 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 17 | In any case , the repressive methods employed by the Armed Police , the Civil Guard and the legal system itself were more than a match for unarmed industrial workers . |
| 18 | Both of these groups had non-completion rates which were higher than the average for all students . |
| 19 | Although there were few States where the Republicans were as deeply entrenched as the Democrats were in their southern strongholds , there were several where the need for large welfare state payments to win votes for a marginal government was low . |
| 20 | In all other age groups below retirement age the proportion of temporary workers is lower than the average for all age groups . |
| 21 | On any move , the chance that it might turn through one angle is large if the number for that angle is large in comparison to the numbers for other angles . |
| 22 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 23 | If you can raise your eyes from the water long enough you 'll see that the scenery is more than a match for the fishing — it 's simply breathtaking . |
| 24 | Man for man a unit of Elf longbowmen is more than a match for most opposing troop types . |
| 25 | Given a decent summer , a top English Seyval Blanc or Huxelrebe is more than a match for most Muscadets or Soaves . |
| 26 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 27 | But the new Agatha Christie Society is more than an outlet for affectionate memories . |
| 28 | This fact is important when the evidence for the existence of latent coeliac disease is reviewed . |
| 29 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 30 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |