Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the amount of the loan is repaid within 12 months of the date on which it was made ; and 2. the period for which amounts are outstanding in respect of loans made to the settlor by that or any other body corporate connected with the settlement , or by him to that or any other such body , in any period of five years , does not exceed 12 months . |
| 2 | Helmets are watery from spike to chin-strap . |
| 3 | The shorter the period over which prices are sticky in relation to the period over which government policy instruments are sticky , the more likely it is that the policy implications of chapter 4 will remain . |
| 4 | For example , glycosylated proteins which are unsuitable for display on filamentous bacteriophage may be amenable to selection in a retroviral display system . |
| 5 | Theorems 2 and 3 together give us a relative completeness result : relative to the knowledge we are assuming about expressions , our algebraic laws are complete with respect to deciding the equivalence of finite programs . |
| 6 | They do n't have to fight or be brave ; they are right in tune with the rock and themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ We are right in front of it , ’ said the driver . |
| 8 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 9 | All morning everyone had been speechless with depression about ‘ Sonnet ’ . |
| 10 | Many public sector agencies are hierarchical in form with each ‘ front-line ’ worker being responsible to a supervisor , who in turn reports to a superior , and so on . |
| 11 | The pressure is not alleviated by further statements which are over-dogmatic without consideration of their effects : ‘ We are convinced , and our experience supports us , that the auditory mode can be the mode of information transmission for hearing-impaired children ’ ( 1981 : 147 ) . |
| 12 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 13 | And there , only sixteen say they 're depressive er people , eighty four no but the great majority here have been depressed from time to time . |
| 14 | 1976 ) , which suggests that under certain circumstances collagen or other vessel wall constituents are unnecessary for activation of platelets . |
| 15 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 16 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 17 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 18 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 19 | Holden calls someone a ‘ phoney ’ if they behave in a superficial way , or if they value the wrong things , for example money and beauty , and are hypocritical in order to be accepted in society . |
| 20 | At this meeting the dauphin may have implied that the duke , whose reluctance to adopt a strongly anti-English stance was generally recognised , had been guilty of treason to the French crown . |
| 21 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 22 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |
| 23 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 24 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 25 | Publication of the report by the Observer in March this year caused a furore and prompted a special committee of Law Lords to decide whether Lonrho had been guilty of contempt of court before its appeal to the House of Lords on the Fraser bid . |
| 26 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 27 | Whether or not they are cost-effective by comparison with other approaches is another matter . |
| 28 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 29 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 30 | It is unlikely that these deficits are due to loss of a neural mechanism dedicated to brightness discrimination . |