Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is unnecessary to examine them in detail since in our view the questions posed in the certificate must be answered in the negative and on that ground alone this appeal must be allowed . |
| 2 | In Ex. 17 ( a ) and ( b ) the layout is so obvious that it is unnecessary to print them in score . |
| 3 | Parents need time to understand how their problems affect their children and that it is possible to help them with management issues if they work together and support each other . |
| 4 | Since numbers of kin are a function of demography , it is possible to calculate them by simulation from a knowledge of birth rates , marriage rates and death rates . |
| 5 | Assuming that Professor Vessey is willing to allow us to film , the arrangements will be as follows . |
| 6 | The borrower passes the newly created deposit to the seller of the goods who is willing to take it in payment . |
| 7 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 8 | Abortion usually provides the last chance for a woman to opt not to have a child ( unless she is prepared to offer it for adoption ) either for social reasons or because the fetus is in some way malformed . |
| 9 | The first part of the provision may not therefore be wholly effective in any event and the question is whether the tenant is prepared to accept it in return for a concession from the landlord elsewhere in the lease . |
| 10 | And while the injunctions are subject to unwitting acceptance , it is impossible to call them into question . |
| 11 | It is impossible to place them in context so they are virtually worthless . |
| 12 | It is easy to read it with approval as support for the view that management should be considerate of the well-being and interests of employees , and would be well-advised to promote their participation in the discussion of them . |
| 13 | It is unusual to consider them in conjunction with the ostensibly different milieux and traditions of broadcasting . |
| 14 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 15 | TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . |
| 16 | And now " The Meeting having given due consideration to the want of a regular and resident Surgeon in the Island , and conceive that such a person is much wanted , and they know that in general the practice and payments to a medical person is inadequate to support him in decency , and although a liberal subscription was opened and entered into by individuals still the supply would be scanty and unequal to the support of an educated person and a gentleman . |
| 17 | Since , however , the interpretation of these items is strictly controlled , and since they are susceptible to paraphrase , it is unsatisfactory to analyse them as metaphor . |
| 18 | We discuss some of the implications of these potential trade-offs in detail in Chapter 6 , but it is important to bear them in mind within this chapter as we discuss a variety of theories about the relationship between new technology and job satisfaction . |
| 19 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 20 | It is essential to remove them from water to prevent the soiling of fabric . |
| 21 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 22 | It is necessary to bear it in mind that the vast majority of occupational pensions schemes operate successfully in the United Kingdom — some 100,000 of them . |
| 23 | But no criteria are sufficient actually to explain this distinction , and in order to elucidate its meaning it is necessary to consider it in connection with certain modes of experiencing with which it forms a structural unity . |
| 24 | In order to understand the workings of ecclesiastical power , it is necessary to consider it in context , or rather in two contexts ; the relations of a bishop with the king and with the leading figures of the diocese . |
| 25 | While market forces may undoubtedly bring many positive benefits , both socially and politically , there are many occasions when it is legitimate to subject them to regulation in order to secure confidence and fairness in the operation of the financial markets . |
| 26 | If the machine 's speed is sufficient to bring it into contact with a target then it is considered to have charged . |
| 27 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 28 | Diniz is ready to take you as friend , or will be soon . ’ |
| 29 | In Pizzorno 's words , an ‘ actor ( generally the government ) which has goods to give is ready to trade them in exchange for social consensus with an actor who can threaten to withdraw that consensus ’ ( 1978 : 279 ) . |
| 30 | While it is important not to fixate on animosity it is wise to take it into account . |