Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the test that has to be applied before a health authority refuses an ECR is that the decision must be ’ wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 3 | It is rare , if not unknown , for the same voices to be heard if a sentence is too severe , although the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal frequently reduces sentences for just that reason . |
| 4 | Not all contexts allow such careful choice , however , and it has to be decided whether a set of radiocarbon results using less than ideal samples provides better dating evidence than the archaeology alone . |
| 5 | It 's not likely to be moved until a specialist breakdown vehicle is brought in tomorrow . |
| 6 | The Abortion and Sterilisation Act of 1975 stipulates that written consent of the person who in law consents to an operation has to be obtained before a sterilisation is performed . |
| 7 | It is no easier for evidence to be obtained where a man is cohabiting with a woman , yet rape is a crime in these circumstances . |
| 8 | This statutory requirement for an apprenticeship to be served before a trade could be taken up was not repealed until 1814 in the face of organised trade-union opposition . |
| 9 | Appropriate signals have to be employed if a message is to be understood . |
| 10 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 11 | The Hon. Members for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) , for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) and for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) raised the question of the procedures to be adopted if a bus service is withdrawn . |
| 12 | This form is to be completed if a group or number of groups wish to have a status report on the entries they are presently working on . |
| 13 | In fact , I was told of an occasion when a power-pole had to be replaced because a woodpecker had dug a hole ‘ you could hide a beer can in ’ , as my informant said ! |
| 14 | His case raises some immensely difficult issues : issues about death and dying , issues about the appropriate moral and legal responses to be made when a man who has received the best that modern medical technology can offer decides finally that he can take no more . |
| 15 | No public announcement was to be made until a replacement had been decided upon . |
| 16 | Prior to the meeting , the purchaser and MAS will need to establish their further information requirements distinguishing between that which will need to be investigated before more precise deal terms can be negotiated and that which will need to be seen before a deal can be completed . |
| 17 | The fern moved slightly in the breeze , but along the path there was nothing to be seen except a scatter of last year 's fallen acorns under an oak . |
| 18 | Prof. Smith in The Law of Theft , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1990 , para. 385 , and in his commentary on Whiteside attacked present law which requires there to be asked whether a person would be deceived . |
| 19 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 20 | This is more an opportunity to be grabbed than a threat to the survival of Japanese factories abroad . |
| 21 | The bill claimed to be ‘ putting the patient in the driving seat ’ , but it did not even allow patients to be consulted if a hospital decided to opt out of regional health authority control , he said . |
| 22 | In addition , LIFESPAN always assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if a user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken , e.g. failing to respond to a Software Performance Report . |
| 23 | In addition , LIFESPAN always assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if a user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken , e.g. failing to respond to a Software Performance Report . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ We have outlined the criteria which would need to be achieved before a move could be considered the rest is up to him . ’ |
| 25 | On July 26 the two were ordered to be retried after a mistrial was declared . |
| 26 | The conditions to be met before a leap-frog appeal can take place indicate the type of case the legislature had in mind . |
| 27 | However , there are a number of technical requirements which have to be met before a tenant is granted another business tenancy or compensation . |
| 28 | It could be asked to view the site where a particular incident occurred although the expense of leaving the courtroom is unlikely to be justified where a photograph or a detailed description would suffice . |
| 29 | There is of course a difference between a flexible general programme , able to expand/develop/change emphasis , as and when circumstances alter/new needs emerge/relevant external courses present themselves , and waiting for a course to be advertised before a need is identified , or taken notice of . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |