Example sentences of "be [adj] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 2 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 3 | Female influence was greatest in consumer decisions , and least in public affairs ( although , as in the above example of voting choices , the researchers say that the latter finding may be due to the men 's unwillingness to admit to having serious political discussions with women ) . |
| 4 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 5 | However , with many LDCs suffering from external debt problems , the guarantee of a local bank might not be acceptable to the exporter 's bank . |
| 6 | In cases where the terms are likely to be subjected to such scrutiny , they must therefore be sufficiently balanced to be acceptable to the client 's trading partners . |
| 7 | when a partner has been guilty of misconduct likely to be harmful to the firm 's business ; |
| 8 | The custom is observed in the belief that a new pregnancy — through its detrimental effect on breastfeeding — would endanger the health or cause the death of the suckling child and , probably , also in recognition of the fact that frequent pregnancies may be harmful to the mother 's health . |
| 9 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 10 | However , this will not preclude other world faiths from that particular discrete area of the curriculum should their introduction be appropriate to the childrens ' experience or the particular theme , topic or unit of work being studied . |
| 11 | While the notion of ‘ deliberately causing harm ’ may be central to a culture 's concept of aggression , actual instances of ‘ aggressive conduct ’ are always open to interpretation and reinterpretation . |
| 12 | Local communities will be fully consulted and their loyalties and interests will be central to the commission 's task in deciding whether in any area a single tier of local government could provide better accountability and greater efficiency . |
| 13 | Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint . |
| 14 | However , they too could be useful to an organisation 's selection procedure , since they can give more valid information than the traditional interview . |
| 15 | Bonnet was known to be opposed to the government 's plans to restructure the army . |
| 16 | Failure to make the request will be fatal to the plaintiff 's claim if the relevant limitation period has expired , unless an extension of time is granted . |
| 17 | Since the employer has the burden of proof , this will usually be fatal to the employer 's case . |
| 18 | Some proposals for block contracts ( DoH 1989f ) at first sight do appear to be population based , eg ‘ the DHA might , for example , require a specified number of beds to be available to a DHA 's residents whenever required for a defined area of treatment together with the appropriate facilities for treatment ’ , but this does not indicate who is responsible when these beds are all occupied and more ( emergency ) cases arrive . |
| 19 | In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this cursive italic style gained ground as an alternative to secretary , although as Hector says ( op cit ) , ‘ By 1600 it was being written with such magnificent disregard of any calligraphical rules that it might be illegible to the writer 's contemporaries and compatriots . ’ |
| 20 | This power may be used , for example , to prevent a parent seeking a second or third opinion when this would be contrary to the child 's best interests . |
| 21 | Self-restraint , followed by rationalisation , are necessary and healthy for the industry , he said , while joint ventures and strategic alliances will be essential to the industry 's survival . |
| 22 | For a competitive equilibrium , this line must be tangent to the individual 's indifference curve . |
| 23 | But the book is written in the faith that such errors in readers ' responses can be corrected , and that when this is done their way will be open to the poet 's mental condition , and therefore to the correct experience of the poem . |
| 24 | Horovitz was to be vital to the underground 's birth . |
| 25 | They will be useless to the drafter 's client unless they are explained . |
| 26 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 27 | These will be relevant to the child 's present and future safety and independence . |
| 28 | Most important of all , family allowances were seen to be relevant to the government 's economic policy . |
| 29 | And under the " public good " defence it may be relevant to the jury 's task of evaluating the merit of a particular book to compare it with other books of the same kind , and to hear expert evidence about the current climate of permissiveness in relation to this kind of literature . |
| 30 | If it were assumed , however , that a particular complainant did have an unconscious desire to be raped , could this be relevant to the defendant 's liability ? |