Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] so [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statutory exemptions are provided in section 88 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and , inter alia , allow a person to drive without a licence or cause or permit another to do so if the driver has held or is entitled to obtain a licence for that class of vehicle and an application for such a licence has been received including in it the date he was driving . |
| 2 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 3 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 4 | Will the Minister confirm that he has no intention of taking meaningful action , but that he is afraid to say so because an election is coming up ? |
| 5 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 6 | War boars are really hard to control so when the boar decides to run off or charge madly out of control it is very difficult for the rider to do much about it . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The London Stock Exchange may , at the request of the Panel , withdraw temporarily the facilities of the market from an offender ( for instance , a bidder which wishes to issue its own listed shares as consideration for the bid will be unable to do so if the London Stock Exchange refuses to admit them to listing ) . |
| 8 | Subject to that , an expert is not prohibited from following these litigation-style procedures , but he would be unwise to do so because the reference may subsequently be held to have been an arbitration and will in any event take longer and be more costly . |
| 9 | Unless the inviting church can show that it has the capacity within itself to attract and retain the outsider , it is unlikely to do so as the result of a brief visit from an itinerant evangelist , no matter how gifted . |
| 10 | The former does so because a strategy of playing Nash equilibrium in every constituent game is also a Nash equilibrium of an entire repeated game . |
| 11 | Of its own motion the court may decide to bring a private prosecution to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service ; indeed a justices ' clerk is obliged to do so if a private prosecutor withdraws or fails to proceed in circumstances in which the reason given appears unsatisfactory . |