Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no clear decision on whether battery can be committed by the indirect application of force by digging a hole into which people subsequently fall , for example , but there are judicial statements in favour of including indirect force . |
| 2 | This organisation has since been in correspondence with Neil Kinnock 's Westminster office , but has yet to receive any clear indication of whether Labour would indeed reduce the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16 . |
| 3 | The interesting question of whether publication by or caused by the confidant affects the existence of the confidence was discussed in Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 . |
| 4 | Fortunately dietary intervention from before conception seems to have a favourable influence on outcome , which seems to be closely associated with the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia very early in gestation . |
| 5 | It looks like an average piece of As bond at first sight but it is n't actually a standard size at all . |
| 6 | But a combination of the characteristic features of American parties today raises the serious question of whether analysis of American politics from the perspective of a party system or party government is at all helpful . |
| 7 | The more micro-based studies , which focus on a particular expenditure programme or transfer policy , often offer a more tractable research problem , but these are inevitably open to the criticism that they are very partial in nature , giving no real insight into whether government intervention is narrowing or widening the extent of overall economic inequality ( assuming we can agree how to measure it ! ) . |
| 8 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 9 | Both these cases , while they are addressed to the distinct issues of whether history is accidental or planned , and whether it is accidental or law-governed , exemplify a widespread failure to engage with the problem of holism . |
| 10 | RECENTLY I have been dragged , most unwillingly , into a ludicrous debate about whether hi-fi systems sound better if the room , records and electronics have been treated with coloured inks to convert the adverse effects of the gravitational field of the Earth into beneficial effects . |
| 11 | The family member tends to react to crises brought about by the addictive disease as if addiction were just like any other acute disease . |
| 12 | Mr Cocks also criticised judges for making uninformed pronouncements about whether child witnesses were old enough to give evidence . |
| 13 | If anything has changed in the attitude of modern theorists towards discipline and obedience , it is not the fundamental issue of whether discipline is necessary , since almost everyone would agree that some discipline is indispensable . |
| 14 | The results may also shed some light on the troublesome issue of whether advertising by incumbent firms constitutes a barrier which potential entrants must overcome . |
| 15 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 16 | In doing so we shall concentrate in this chapter on lines of research that address the general issue of whether psychosis and creativity are in fact connected . |
| 17 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 18 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |
| 19 | Simplicity There is no need for countries to decide what constitutes the appropriate exchange rate or for their general agreement on whether deficit or surplus countries are responsible for the adjustment burden . |
| 20 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 21 | There is the difficult issue of whether use as opposed to disclosure constitutes breach . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first . |
| 23 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 24 | He gave her a distant smile as if thinking of something else . |
| 25 | The state of the art in the study of professionals in schools is still represented by the work of Hoyle ( 1975 ) who suggested the notion of professionality as a way forward from the sterile debates of whether teaching is a profession in the ‘ checklist of characteristics ’ manner . |
| 26 | The much publicised case of Ben Silcock and the health secretary 's response to it have once again revealed important differences among mental health care providers about which care is most necessary ; it has also emphasised underlying uncertainties about whether community care for people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness can ever really work . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister had tried to staunch the crisis by calling a full judicial inquiry into whether government ministers allowed businessmen to breach arms sales guidelines . |