Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A situation may arise where a family is involved and the father is unable to return to the U.K. If he requires someone to remain with him it would be unfair to say the children would have to go home alone . |
| 2 | Circumstances may arise where a card is retained by an Abbeylink machine . |
| 3 | As the course lengthens the bed of the distributary will be built up and the situation may arise where a levee is breached and a new shorter course to the sea made available . |
| 4 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 5 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 6 | It is equally important that the human capabilities be recognized and used where a computer is not so suitable . |
| 7 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 8 | In measuring visual acuity in this way , a figure which looks like a fraction is recorded . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know if a date is set for Harriet 's funeral ? |
| 10 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 11 | Let er me hear the question and I shall know if a background is required . |
| 12 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 13 | Perhaps he would wait until a baby was on the way , for Mrs Darne had not failed to notice that these days extramarital pregnancy , once a horrible disgrace , was often the loudly publicized occasion for a wedding , with the bride , far from ashamed of herself , carrying all proudly before her . |
| 14 | The situation would be resolved if a transfusion were required . |
| 15 | Mr Randolph 's face looked like a child 's before a wrapped-up present . |
| 16 | It is often difficult to establish if a site is liable to flooding and it can be easily overlooked during the site investigation . |
| 17 | President Chadli Benjedid , at a March 13 press conference , said that there was no question of dissolving parliament at present , but that this could be considered if a consensus were to emerge on the matter ; legislative elections were due in 1992 but could be brought forward if necessary , and Chadli accepted the possibility of the ruling National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale — FLN ) finding itself in a minority after such elections . |
| 18 | One other possibility that is sometimes considered if a camera is available in an institution is local production of teaching materials . |
| 19 | There has been a trend for the clinical diagnosis of pyloric stenosis to be preceded by an imaging study : during 1974–7 only 25 ( 12% ) infants were imaged before a mass was palpated compared with 57 ( 31% ) during 1988–91 . |
| 20 | The difficulty for anyone returning after a break is gauging just how up to date the teaching methods and philosophies of care are in any one school of nursing . |
| 21 | Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission . |
| 22 | When 0 is given as the number of parses , this indicates that the parser exited cleanly with no parses being found , a dash ( - ) indicates that the system crashed before a parse was obtained . |
| 23 | Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it . |
| 24 | But do n't you know whether a solicitor 's going to be here for the committal proceedings today ? |
| 25 | I 've got a friend of 84 or 85 ; the first thing he wants after a marathon is a drink of beer and a cigar . |
| 26 | Many different design styles were submitted and considered before a decision was reached to base the design on fine ornate plasterwork of the Throne Room . |
| 27 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 28 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 29 | The Commission has reminded Rome that EC rules will have to be respected when a decision is made . |
| 30 | A loud juddering sound occurring when a tap is turned off or a ball-valve shuts is known as water hammer . |