Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judicial or administrative authority may also refuse to order the return of the child if it finds that the child objects to being returned and has attained the age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of its views . |
| 2 | It will not be very helpful to designate a foreign division a ‘ cash cow ’ if it is located in a part of the world from which it is impossible to remit funds . |
| 3 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 4 | This represents an attempt to assess a level of income below which it is impossible to ensure survival . |
| 5 | That God has waited until this late hour to create a situation in which it is right to ordain women also ? |
| 6 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 7 | Other points covered in the elements chapter include the complementary nature of assets and liabilities , how in some cases identifying a liability leads to identification of an asset , as well as the question of offsetting — the circumstances in which it is correct to aggregate debit and credit items to form a single net asset or liability . |
| 8 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 9 | The goal is a straightforward and modest one : to build a structure within which it is possible to appreciate differences between places which is not empiricist ( as the CURS initiative largely is ) but is set within an appreciation of the nature of capitalist society . |
| 10 | Government can do much to set the boundaries in which it is possible to create wealth . |
| 11 | As such , it represents a case study — illustrating the interdependence of various techniques , and the extent to which it is possible to make progress in quantifying the effects of policies and of policy changes . |
| 12 | Subjects in which it is possible to have fun are not serious subjects . |
| 13 | The Evangelicals usually honoured Cranmer , but Macaulay did not , writing , somewhat unfairly , ‘ The sanguinary intolerance of a man who then wavered in his Creed excites a loathing to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names . ’ |
| 14 | In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 . |
| 15 | Some goods with external benefits , from which it is difficult to exclude people , possess a further characteristic : the consumption of their benefits by one person does not reduce the amount available for others . |
| 16 | The wires on telephones are of a type to which it is difficult to make connections but there should be no difficulty if the pieces of screw terminal block are used as shown . |
| 17 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 18 | Constructive dismissal cases ( examined in Chapter 15 ) provide a good example of situations in which it is vital to have evidence of conduct on your employer 's part which you find objectionable . |
| 19 | There is however , one further distinction which is rarely noted , but which it is important to draw attention to here . |
| 20 | There are angles from which it is important to emphasise similarities , and others from which — for equally strong moral reasons — it is important to emphasise differences . |
| 21 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 22 | While pure public goods are hard to find , there are many goods with a considerable public goods element : they yield external benefits from which it is costly to exclude people and are , to a degree , non-rivalrous in consumption . |
| 23 | Porto Heli has a large , nearly enclosed bay , and steady winds in which it 's safe to leave novices to romp for hour upon hour with little restriction . |
| 24 | Of course it would be ideal to have a material in which it was impossible to initiate cracks at all . |
| 25 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 26 | Thus no virtue was made of complexity , and the sense of touch and feel and shape and form of the workers was utilised to the full and resulted in a process in which it was possible to democratise decision-making processes in design involving masses of people . |
| 27 | If the weather was poor the Empress organized rehearsals for the play to be performed in the Palace Theatre , in which it was customary to allot roles to some of the guests . |