Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The whole structure seemed to be based on the indifference of the majority . |
| 32 | The views of both theorists seem to be based on the distinction between a law-governed nomocratic social order and a purpose-governed teleocractic order . |
| 33 | A programme of accounts monitoring of ‘ at risk ’ firms commenced in January , aiming to cover 650 visits per year , and a fraud intelligence officer was appointed , to be based in the Society 's Monitoring Unit , Measures to reduce conveyancing-based fraud were also adopted ; cards warning on property fraud and loosely given undertakings were circulated . |
| 34 | Ever since William had started school , Diana had had to be based in the south . |
| 35 | When , on 25 March 1859 , the tsar announced the principles on which Russian local government was to be based in the future , he acknowledged that provision had to be made for involving the public . |
| 36 | Given its basic anti-absolutist thought that , whether within or without political society , men have a right to life , liberty , and possessions , it can be seen as a kind of picturesque metaphor which , in explaining the structure of legitimate political authority , reveals it to be based in the consent of the governed . |
| 37 | Despite the millions of words that have been written and spoken on the subject of ‘ 1992 ’ , there still appears to be much more to be said on the subject . |
| 38 | A memorandum by Thomas Cromwell in 1533 of matters to be discussed with the King includes things to be said on the departure of the Bavarian ambassador , the interrogation of a friar named Reysbye , the treatment of certain other friars who had been in contact with Rome , the folding of cloth in the north of England , the offer made to the King by the executors of Lord Dacre of the South in an important test case , and the affairs of a reputed idiot named Ralph Francis . |
| 39 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 40 | There is much to be said for the inclusion of a procedure for suspending with immediate effect a partner whose conduct has given ground for expulsion ( Clause 19.02 ) when the surrounding circumstances may not immediately indicate whether it would be in the interests of the firm that the power to expel should in fact be exercised . |
| 41 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 42 | With respect , there is much to be said for the minority view expressed by Lord Pearce which is based upon certainty in transactions and would not expose the parties to shifts in scientific knowledge right up to the time of trial . |
| 43 | Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation . |
| 44 | There was at least this to be said for the mainline Catholic and Protestant positions . |
| 45 | ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method . |
| 46 | From the point of view of policy , therefore , there is much to be said for the view that no independent tort is committed when all that is threatened , in the two-party situation , is a breach of contract , though there is not very much authority for such a proposition . |
| 47 | The peculiarity of the electoral system was shown again , for the Conservatives had kept the majority of votes-8.66 million against the Labour 8.36 ; and there was something to be said for the view that a drift of mainly middle-class population southward , and the absence of an up-to-date register of the already enfranchised voters , had benefited Labour in the tally of actual seats . |
| 48 | There 's a lot to be said for the saying ‘ You are what you eat ’ . |
| 49 | If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework . |
| 50 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 51 | I mean , th there is something to be said for the manner towards you is n't there ? |
| 52 | Staughton J. thought there was ‘ a good deal to be said for the argument of agency ’ . |
| 53 | There is in theory a good deal to be said for the submission of Professor Birks in his Introduction to the Law of Restitution ( 1985 ) , p. 295 , that a payer should be able to recover payments demanded ultra vires by a public authority on the sole ground that retention of such payment would infringe the principle of ‘ no taxation without Parliament ’ enshrined in the Bill of Rights . |
| 54 | But there is something more to be said about the focusing of attention on the present and oneself . |
| 55 | There is nothing much more to be said about the siege of Krishnapur . |
| 56 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 57 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 58 | For this reason alone , something has to be said about the predominance of the female nude in European art from the mid-19th century . |
| 59 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 60 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |