Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Senate foreign relations committee chairman , Claiborne Pell , had warned on Nov. 8 that the President " would be badly advised to go to war without a clear prior expression of congressional support " and should not " establish an offensive capacity in advance of a UN resolution authorizing offensive action " . |
| 2 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 3 | Gowing goes on to indicate the health hazard arising from the intense alpha activity of polonium at the Windscale site : ‘ Alpha handling procedures had to be greatly upgraded to deal with polonium , and for a time everyone had to work with respirators … |
| 4 | Therefore , long-term measures to promote sales are not feasible , and the manufacturer would be better advised to look to product improvement as part of long-term strategy . |
| 5 | A high position — 30mm above normal — can be manually selected to cope with flooding and snow . |
| 6 | The purpose of the apparatus was to file world trade marks in such a way that they could be easily produced to check for similarity and prior registration . |
| 7 | Dicey himself argued that it comprised " at least three distinct though kindred conceptions " : " That no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land " ; that " no man is above the law [ and ] every man , whatever be his rank or condition , is subject to the ordinary law of the realm and amenable to the jurisdiction of the ordinary tribunals " ; and that " the general principles of the constitution [ are ] the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts . " |
| 8 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 9 | The reader might be well advised to read over Chapter 2 on the LDCs just to refresh his memory on the economic and social problems confronting these nations . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Cameron ’ — a bigwig with painfully slow and clear articulation , his back to the window , his features invisible — ‘ now that the charges have been preferred , you would be well advised to apply for bail . ’ |