Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law .
2 Breach of contract occurs where one of the parties fails to perform any one of the contract terms .
3 Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) .
4 Each of our models continues to provide some insights , although none is wholly adequate .
5 The second exemption is contained in s103(5) which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made by the company in connection with its proposed merger with another company , ie where one of the companies proposes to acquire all the assets ( and liabilities ) of the other in exchange for the issue of shares or other securities of that one to shareholders of the other , with or without any cash payment to shareholders .
6 But when women experience child loss , the rationale of family planning for health or other purposes tends to have little meaning for them , and many reject non-traditional means of spacing or limiting births .
7 For committees ( except those on private or hybrid bills ) , their public proceedings are covered only when one or other of the broadcasters , independent producers or other organisations wishes to film some part of a committee 's work for use in a programme .
8 Everyone who owns ferrets needs to develop this sort of relationship with his animals .
9 Evidence from other studies tends to confirm this argument .
10 The current generation of editors prefers to see this maturity exemplified in the ‘ final versions ’ produced during Shakespeare 's later years .
11 The collaboration of the two males tends to prevent this .
12 After a thorough investigation as to the source of a phenolic type odour being generated within a newly completed building , several possible sources were identified including foam-backed carpeting laid on concrete floors , which under certain conditions appears to generate this type of odour .
13 Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years .
14 The idea of travelling between areas to take advantage of shorter waiting times appears to have some public support as Leathard ( 1990 ) quotes a survey which suggests that 40 per cent of people would go anywhere in the country to avoid waiting for treatment .
15 Presumably , it was felt that businessmen could take care of themselves in this area , and the fact that such clauses are not in common use in business contracts seems to bear this out .
16 PROFS has to take some of the credit ( or blame ) for IBM 's ability to recycle its people .
17 Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed .
18 Putting ‘ managing legal rules ’ high on the agenda of management meetings helps to achieve this objective .
19 Assuming that the system was properly balanced before , each of the original radiators has to give some flow up to the new one .
20 The City Varieties Friends exists to support this delightful Music Hall .
21 At a casual glance , Connections appears to possess all the erotic aesthetics of the Adam and Eve , and , therefore , all the erotic aesthetics of a mid-Seventies young offenders ' institute situated on the outskirts of Cardiff .
22 Even more unfortunately many professionals seems to encourage this by taking on ‘ ownership ’ of the children 's problems in the cases they deal with .
23 Now a new charter by the National Association of Race Equality Advisers aims to ensure these obligations are fulfilled and transform ministers ' rhetoric into reality .
24 The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector .
25 The ‘ nurturant ’ child-caring relationship that exists between housewives and housewives-to-be serves to make this assimilation more likely than not .
26 The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person .
27 Whether the commitment from present enrolled nurses exists to make such approaches feasible , and whether there is sufficient financial help available to put them into practice , remains to be seen .
28 His opposition to capital punishment , on the other hand , does not seem to fit very well with the principle of symbolic representation — the public execution of murderers appears to satisfy all his requirements .
29 Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions .
30 A comparison of these ICUs could be very useful , but it is just this situation where the accumulation of points for physiological indices fails to allow such a comparison to be made .
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