Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It would also be preferable that the Bank of Ireland would discuss the situation with IBOA as the representative of the majority of their staff .
2 Both reports argue that the ERM would be healthier if the relationship between parities and economic fundamentals were more closely monitored — and , when the two diverge , countries realigned more readily .
3 He may be right that the centre of gravity among that supposedly central group of Britons , the skilled workers , or C2s , has shifted back in favour of higher state spending .
4 I only comment that , at a time when Community law is becoming increasingly important , it would be strange if the right of the citizen to recover overpaid charges were to be more restricted under domestic law than it is under European law .
5 I should be sorry if the debate on the Bill were to be unnecessarily prolonged and so prevented the House from debating the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill that hon. Members are waiting to discuss .
6 And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge .
7 We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class .
8 In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into .
9 ‘ It is undoubtedly the case that the demand for mortgage finance would be lower if the provision of tax relief was reduced , ’ said the report .
10 Similarly you may have combined with your application for judgment one for an interim award and it would be absurd that the benefit of that award should be lost in providing the costs of the action thus far .
11 The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances .
12 Many variants will be possible and the level of detail will depend on the nature of the courses involved .
13 This strategy will be profitable until the sum of the transactions costs of selling the existing share portfolio and buying the index future ( including the roll-over costs , if any ) exceeds the deviation from the no-arbitrage condition .
14 ‘ Under the Water Act 1989 , ’ commented the magazine ENDS , ‘ the NRA 's main powers to prevent the entry of these pesticides into water sources from diffuse discharges will only be exercisable if the Secretary of State chooses to designate water protection zones in the areas concerned .
15 You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question .
16 Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher .
17 Of the two tables nearby , one was occupied by a mixed group of men and women , all young and casually clad , the other by two men , one with a beard and guernsey sweater in which , in this warm room , he must be sweltering and the other with thinning hair , bespectacled and somehow familiar .
18 It would be different if the rest of the sum demanded had been paid .
19 The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol .
20 For a moment that might have lasted hours she seemed to see herself , old and weak , and knew that now she could be free and the burden of life leave her wings for ever .
21 Media freedom would be enhanced by legislation of the reforms proposed by the Faulks Committee , and even the statutory right of reply advocated by many media critics would be liberating if the exercise of that right were made contingent upon abandoning claims for libel damages .
22 We must be careful that the harmonisation of individual legislatures is not achieved at the expense of those groups with little economic power .
23 Samples received from ICC show the ratio of characters to keystrokes to be 2:3 and the ratio for data delivered to the project team may increase to 1:2 .
24 From what follows it will be clear that the Court of Appeal , civil division , is at the heart of the civil appeal process .
25 So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman .
26 These are the kinds of issues which an analysis of curriculum balance needs to address , and the head will need to be clear that the heart of the matter is the question of the deployment of time in ways which allow adequate attention to all parts of a curriculum .
27 First , it should be clear that the idea of higher education being developed here is not opposed to a curriculum oriented to the worlds of action , of work and of the professions .
28 It will be clear that the presence of two slits is essential to give an interference pattern .
29 Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church .
30 First let us be clear that the cost of buying the car in the first place , garaging it , taxing it , the M.O.T .
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