Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They both felt that , as Marcus 's wife , Louisa could be relied upon to give the best advice . |
| 32 | Added to this is the doubt whether , because of the wide dispersion of shareholding in the large public company , shareholders can be relied upon to invoke the legal remedies at their disposal . |
| 33 | Provided they do n't hold up the meeting too often , it is often useful to have one such man at the meeting , since he can be relied upon to ask the naive question that many others would like to ask but dare not . |
| 34 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 35 | The Party could always be relied upon to orchestrate the massive demonstrations whose purpose was to cow those who doubted Franco 's strength and silence allegations that the regime was not legitimated by popular support . |
| 36 | This may be manipulated by subtracting the risk-free rate from both sides and dividing by the portfolio beta to obtain , and as we may rewrite this equation as , . |
| 37 | This may be manipulated by subtracting the riskless rate from both sides and dividing the result by the standard deviation of the portfolio 's returns to obtain , This may be interpreted as saying that , in equilibrium , the ex-post risk premiums per unit of risk on well-diversified portfolios should be the same as the risk premium per unit of risk for the market portfolio . |
| 38 | MAS 's involvement in investigations tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and studying with the purchaser the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on the heads of agreement and the client 's warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 39 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 40 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
| 41 | It was agreed that NIPSA should be pressured into changing the poor attitude many staff have towards claimants . |
| 42 | 1823 " Now direct the Collector to pay Twenty pounds Sterling as the sum formerly stented , and to be appropriated for the suppression of thieves — of which sum the Collector will be discharged on paying the same to Mr. McAlpine … for his outlay on his dwelling house . " |
| 43 | Over recent years , the study of the fire problem involved in high-bay ( high-racked ) warehouses has provoked much thought and discussion , and has brought with it the realisation that there are many factors to be considered in determining the correct solution to adopt . |
| 44 | Cost , efficiency and local accountability would be considered in preparing the proposed reforms and there had to be a trade-off between the two , Lang asserted . |
| 45 | The third feature that needs to be considered in contextualizing the national curriculum legislation is the government 's attitude towards local authorities . |
| 46 | It said there were matters still to be resolved in adapting the new novel , To Play a King , which depicts a King of England in crisis with an unscrupulous Prime Minister . |
| 47 | Perhaps the problem could be solved by amending the Public Health Act 1936 on the lines of s.58(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 in order to enable local authorities to act where a nuisance is likely to occur . |
| 48 | Router movement can be solved by changing the holding bolts for longer ones with a fine thread and fitting very thick washers , so enabling the nuts to be fully tightened without the router getting in the way of the spanner . |
| 49 | A lot of the problems of alleged and actual extremism by local councils might , of course , be solved by changing the local voting system ( not necessarily the thin end of a nation wedge ) but Mrs Thatcher will never consider that . |
| 50 | Good energy management may be approached by considering the three components : time , level and efficiency ( Box 1 ) . |
| 51 | Nobody could be blamed for thinking the worst . |
| 52 | Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ . |
| 53 | There is no necessary relationship between these schemata and the actual details of a song ; the details could be substituted without affecting the essential meaning , while conversely the overall structure does not depend on the details . |
| 54 | Anyone could be forgive for thinking the Happy Holiday Hotel was a madhouse , with its bizarre collection of staff and its temperamental manager , George . |
| 55 | For a blind with a shaped hemline , a further allowance should be added for facing the shaped edge ; allow a depth of between 8 and 15cm ( 3–6in ) for this depending on the depth of the edging below the lath . |
| 56 | Where such an atmosphere of gloom persists it needs to be dispersed by affirming the Christian hope . |
| 57 | While bevelling machines are available commercially satisfactory instruments can be prepared by breaking the capillary tip against a cold filament . |
| 58 | The timescale , , for the instability of the boundary layer to occur is given by the time taken for conduction to thicken the local boundary layer to this mean thickness The two different regimes can be separated by equating the settling time , /v S to the convective boundary-layer timescale , . |
| 59 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 60 | Further moves could also be made towards increasing the two-way interaction between public and private health care sectors . |