Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 2 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 3 | There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall . |
| 4 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 5 | While it is clear that a trespasser is a ‘ stranger ’ for this purpose , we can only conjecture who else is included in the term . |
| 6 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |
| 7 | The court may grant leave on the written request alone or direct that a date be fixed for hearing in which case notice must be given to the applicant and other persons as directed by the court ( FPCR , r3(2) ; FPR , r4.3(2) ) . |
| 8 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable . |
| 10 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 11 | It is unbecoming to go on hating an enemy like this once a conflict is over . |
| 12 | they were married in December 1421 and a son was born at Windsor , but before the boy was nine months old , Henry V died in France . |
| 13 | Maximilian , however , is desperately hungry for blood , and after 3 rounds of combat he must make a Cl test ( and at 2-round intervals after this until a test is failed ) . |
| 14 | Country Villas : Infants under 2 go free if a cot is used as an extra bed in the parents ' room . |
| 15 | 2 If a cough is present steam inhalations may be prescribed to help loosen secretions . |
| 16 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 17 | Sometimes the original number of volumes is found to be inconvenient and a work is compressed , and so that we can get ‘ four volumes in two ’ , ‘ eight volumes in four ’ , etc . |
| 18 | If something goes wrong while a user is accessing LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a ‘ Transaction Failure ’ page which describes the fault and tells the user what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 19 | John Jarvis , senior sales manager , said : ‘ With interest like this before a brick is even laid , who knows what results we will achieve once potential purchasers can actually see the finished product . ’ |
| 20 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 21 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 22 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 23 | Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I find it strange that a report is being talked about when no-one was sent off , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 27 | This amplification becomes possible once a system is controlled , and is most dramatic in living things . |
| 28 | Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out . |
| 29 | It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing . |
| 30 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |