Example sentences of "be [conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 2 | The prime advantages are that a group develops a high level of cohesiveness and a high regard for its task functions . |
| 3 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 4 | The dominant beliefs of the catholic — nationalist bloc still are that the group forms a people who are Gaelic-Irish , constitute a nation , are republican , and populate an island which has a natural , inner political unity . |
| 5 | Detailed studies of the cost of such tied aid have indicated that the resultant prices to the recipient country are typically 20 per cent more than they would have been if the country had a free choice in its supplier . |
| 6 | The lesson seems to be that a plaintiff has a better chance of attacking the exercise of ministerial power if he can show that in some general way , especially procedural and not substantive , the minister has not played the game according to the newly enlarged rules of natural justice . |
| 7 | A tentative reply to these questions we think would be that an attempt to construct a purely feminist demand around housing presents major problems , in the way that demands around financial independence , sexuality , childcare and so on , do not . |
| 8 | ‘ It could be that the girl has a vocation . |
| 9 | The typical operation seemed to be that the man took a lump of metal from a bin , thrust it into the machine , closed some kind of safety cage , and pulled a lever . |
| 10 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 11 | It may be that the purchaser signed a confidentiality agreement at the outset of negotiations . |
| 12 | However , although unclear , it may be that the receiver has a limited duty to continue to trade where this would not jeopardise the chargee 's interests and a failure to do so would impose gratuitous damage on the company . |
| 13 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
| 14 | It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape . |
| 15 | ‘ The starting point of our domestic law is that every citizen has a right to do what he likes , unless restrained by the common law , including the law of contract , or by statute . |
| 16 | The logical consequence , no doubt , is that a promise to accept a smaller sum in discharge of a larger sum , if acted upon , is binding notwithstanding the absence of consideration : and if the fusion of law and equity leads to this result , so much the better . |
| 17 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 18 | Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi . |
| 19 | The only definition we have under the legislation is that a gypsy leads a nomadic lifestyle . |
| 20 | The result is that no party has a majority . |
| 21 | Answer guide : The major point to drive home here is that an asset gives a future benefit . |
| 22 | The second reason is that an appeal triggers a reconsideration of the case by an adjudication officer , who may revise the decision in the claimant 's favour forthwith . |
| 23 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 24 | Presumably the reason why the bank has an equitable proprietary interest is that the law imposes a constructive trust . |
| 25 | The only condition is that the driver has a clean licence and has the permission of the mobility supplement holder . |
| 26 | The C helix happens to have the 3 10 conformation ( hydrogen-bonding to the third residue along , rather than the fourth , as in the α-helix ) , and the answer is that the glutamate generates a bulge ; moreover the local helix geometry switches from 3 10 to α . |
| 27 | My point is that the press has a powerful part to play in redressing the balance . |
| 28 | A second problem is that the SupersPORT has a bastardized type of CGA , known as double-scan CGA . |
| 29 | What all this means in practice is that the engine seems a pretty good performer . |
| 30 | What is different about obscenity is that the test requires a jury to pronounce a work wholly unfit for publication in a civilised society , which implies an immoral influence of a strikingly serious kind . |