Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also help to understand other agencies to which that department has to relate , particularly as a great deal of policy depends , or is intended to depend , upon successful co-operation between organizations . |
| 2 | Any establishment which provides or is intended to provide , whether for reward or not , residential accommodation with both board and personal care , for four or more persons in need of personal care by reasons of old age , disablement , past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs or past or present mental disorder . |
| 3 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 4 | If many students are likely to be moving from room to room , and even leaving the school altogether , some system of control and supervision will certainly be necessary so that no one gets lost , or is tempted to fritter away time or abscond . |
| 5 | Which is another way of saying that what he did , or is said to have done , at Highbury on Tuesday night , takes some believing . |
| 6 | The British Museum has ( or is believed to have ) some 5 or 6 million objects , so that a conventional stock-take of the entire collection could occupy all the qualified staff for five or six years and could be exhaustive only if all other duties were suspended for the duration . |
| 7 | This is a notion often based in part upon perceptions of what is happening or is felt to have already happened in other countries , and the most widely used comparison is drawn with the USA in mind . |
| 8 | Howard has suggested that threats of force directed at any person for whom the complainant ‘ has or is presumed to have strong affections ’ should negative consent . |
| 9 | However , Koch argues that acceptability drives the rest : " the ability to provide any service which meets the patients ' needs or expectations , or is seen to make stupendous efforts towards this , will be a major quality predictor of success " ( Koch 1990 : 132 ) . |
| 10 | I have also enclosed some correspondence which Mr Popham has received or is preparing to send on your behalf . |
| 11 | This leaves MI5 in the enviable position of being accountable to no one nor having to explain anything it does or is alleged to have done . |
| 12 | If a specific sum is anticipated in 6 months time , and today 's price of the share in which it is intended to invest is considered low or is forecast to rise , then the price may be fixed now by the use of a call option . |
| 13 | However , the technique is also used in the form of a heated ‘ smoke wire ’ onto which the oil has been previously coated or is allowed to trickle continuously ; this has some of the versatility of the hydrogen bubble method in water described below . |
| 14 | Conflict is either avoided or is allowed to develop into open warfare . |
| 15 | The other person is turned from the door , and either has no legal advice at all or is forced to go to another lawyer . |
| 16 | A runaway is a young person , aged under 17 years or in local authority care , who has either left home ( or residential care ) of their own accord but without agreement or is forced to leave , and is missing for one or more nights . |
| 17 | For some reason not clear to me a theory has developed and is reflected in many decided cases to the effect that where the architect has agreed or is required to act fairly he becomes what has often been called a quasi-arbitrator … |
| 18 | ( d ) Other rights Where the tenant has been granted rights ( eg a right of support ) the landlord will be entitled to rights that are in their nature reciprocal to the rights he has granted , or is taken to have granted , to the tenant ( Re Webb 's Lease [ 1952 ] Ch 808 ) . |
| 19 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |
| 20 | Briefly , you may be dismissed for redundancy when one of the following events occurs or is expected to occur : |
| 21 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 22 | The existence string should be used to provide a brief reason why the module name is being reserved and to give an indication of what the module contains at present or is meant to contain in the future . |
| 23 | The US is not the only country with economic problems that is looking to transfer pricing to provide additional tax revenues . |
| 24 | The men breathe air that is filtered to remove any radioactive dust , nerve gases or biological toxins . |
| 25 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 26 | For increasingly William and Harry will be schooled by the Queen 's courtiers into the public life that is destined to become their duty . |
| 27 | b , A square 70pc ( 0.5° ) on a side mapped at 1.4GHz shows a bright knot of emission at lower right known as Sgr A. The yellow dot in the red region is Sgr A , the compact nonthermal source that is believed to mark the nucleus . |
| 28 | Until then , the limited supplies of Pentium the company can muster will be going to Intel 's best customers worldwide , a short list that is believed to include AST Research Inc , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and NCR Corp . |
| 29 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 30 | Supramolecular chemistry is now a large and expanding field that is serving to underwrite an emerging new age in chemistry : the age of molecular devices . |