Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disputes relating to rights and obligations centre upon interpreting the status quo , while third parties ' claims may rest upon interests or needs that have emerged or been articulated at some subsequent time . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement . |
| 3 | The structure of the development or construction company will affect the nature of the feasibility study , depending on whether the functions of funding , construction and marketing are all undertaken by one company or are subdivided between several different companies . |
| 4 | .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas . |
| 5 | No Reporter can be removed from office , asked to resign , or be employed in another capacity without the consent of the Secretary of State . |
| 6 | In the past it has generally been assumed either that spending patterns will change incrementally from year to year or be based on some more or less rational overview of budgets . |
| 7 | Her middle could hold loose goods to 250 cubic metres or be replaced with any one of seventeen styles of container . |
| 8 | They argued that , as Henry was answerable to no earthly superior , neither he nor his subjects could appeal to or be cited in any court outside his realm . |
| 9 | The more rules that exist , then the more likely it is that a new product or service will impinge upon or be prohibited in some way by those rules . |
| 10 | Unusual terms may need to be given special prominence , or be highlighted in some way , otherwise they may not be incorporated in the contract ( Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 ) . |
| 11 | The hotel or hall staff can arrange chairs , drinks , and someone to direct and greet the late arrivals , who can then view the wedding presents , or be introduced to each other until a suitable moment arrives for them to enter the dining hall . |
| 12 | More significant , having demonstrated their contempt for charity , they began to develop their own benefit clubs for mutual protection , among them the " Sailors ' Fund " founded at South Shields in 1798 and intended to aid " those that shall suffer by shipwreck or capture or be afflicted with any sickness , accidental misfortune , infirmity or old age " . |
| 13 | To claim that 1 know that my postal code is NW3 2RT is evidently to claim or be committed to more than that 1 believe it . |
| 14 | He wrote that there were well-to-do and respectable men in each district who either planned or were informed of all cattle stealing in their localities . |
| 15 | People may be projecting the present into the past , re-evaluating the past on the basis of the present , or being influenced by some broader underlying general forces of optimism and pessimism . |
| 16 | ‘ And the true order of going , or being led by another , to the things of love , is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty , using these as steps only … ’ |
| 17 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 18 | Instead of your call drowning or being drowned by another , it is intercepted by Contran and you hear either an amplified version of the other call or a brief squelch-like sound in your headset . |
| 19 | It is worth noting that the word " religion " either does not naturally feature in some religions , or is regarded by many religious people with considerable disapproval . |
| 20 | ‘ Every idea which is held in the mind takes its origin from the senses … [ it ] either comes through the senses , or is formed from those which come through the senses . ’ |
| 21 | If your tank cracks or is broken under this type of policy , you can claim for your tank along with your carpets and anything else which is ruined . |
| 22 | During this time various encoding operations may be performed upon the stored information which enables some representation of the stimulus to be held in a short term memory store , after which it either drops out or is transferred into some other more durable store . |
| 23 | The Trader warrants that he is either the owner of the goods in any Consignment or is authorized by such owner to accept these Conditions on such owner 's behalf . |
| 24 | None of the activities described here exists or is encouraged in any extensive way nationally in the way that hospital or prison work is , but they are nevertheless of interest . |
| 25 | A paranoid reproach is aimed at all females by an Amis-like figure , who then reproaches himself , or is reproached by some other Amis agent detectable in the novel . |
| 26 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |
| 27 | Never before had the Prince encountered such anger and hostility , nor been exposed to such real and persistent danger . |
| 28 | The back feet and diagonal members have these compound curves , produced by making jig templates that are secured on both sides of the component and guided by corresponding bearing that sit on top and below the cutter block . |
| 29 | It is these methods and techniques that are explained in this book . |
| 30 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |