Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Translation here must be indeterminate because no amount of evidence will guarantee that the translation we offer will be uniquely correct . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 4 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 10 | It would be different if the rest of the sum demanded had been paid . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 14 | However , a full investigation would be appropriate where the value of the target arises out of its properties or where they are important to the business ; where it would be time-consuming and difficult to find new premises ; and where damages for breach of warranty would be inadequate compensation . |
| 15 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |
| 16 | For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs . |
| 17 | They had convinced him that no radical change in Defence policy would be negotiable unless the Minister of Defence was given greater powers to override the special pleading of the Admiralty , the War Office , the Air Ministry , and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 18 | It would be gratifying if the question of the project 's ability to delay institutional care could be approached simply by comparing the length of time spent at home following referral to the psychiatric services by control and action sample clients . |
| 19 | After sub-paragraph ( 1 ) of paragraph 6A of Schedule 1A to the 1987 Act ( personal community charge : exemption ) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph — ’ ( 1A ) If such a person as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 1 ) above ceases to undertake such a course of education on or after 30th April 1992 , he shall continue to be exempt until the start of the earlier of the following days — |
| 20 | Dry powders of the general purpose type suitable for solids and liquid combustibles could well be effective if the area of the fire could be accurately pin-pointed and an adequate discharge given to ensure extinction . |
| 21 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 22 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 23 | The overall effect on sensitivity may actually be negative because the focusing of attention on redundant information may be at the cost of attention to peripheral information which might have otherwise been useful . |
| 24 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 25 | And if the management of secondary school science departments includes the management of review and of staff development then the effect of a whole-team approach to TVEI and the sharing of ideas , expertness and good practice will be better than the effect of teachers accepting TVEI principles on an individual basis . |
| 26 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 27 | ’ The Protocol added the following sentence : ‘ However , proof to the contrary shall not be admissible when the bill of lading has been transferred to a third party acting in good faith . ’ |
| 28 | A 20th century solution would be cheaper than a replication of what was there before . |
| 29 | The condition of the original internal structures and existing buildings was so bad that cost studies showed that , as well as offering higher standards of fire and sound insulation , the provision of an entirely new structure within the retained shell of the building would be cheaper than a process of repairing and upgrading the surviving framing . |
| 30 | It would be helpful if a selection of the published close-dated groups was to be made available in microfilm or microfiche . |