Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ? |
| 2 | In fact , with the advance of telecommunications , it is easy to stay longer than a weekend and work from Bendinat . |
| 3 | Negotiations between the government and the ANC on constitutional reform , deadlocked for six months , finally seemed set to move ahead after a compromise was reached on Feb. 12 at a 12-hour meeting in Cape Town between delegations led respectively by de Klerk and Mandela . |
| 4 | It took seven days for the swelling to subside completely and a note of the allergy was made in her nursing and medical notes . |
| 5 | The discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1912 made a significant difference too : it then became possible to determine unambiguously whether a small , hard crystal was indeed a diamond . |
| 6 | The Scotsman understands that the deal is now unlikely to go ahead and a minority shareholder in Bank of Edinburgh , the Brighton-based Family Assurance Society , confirmed that there were difficulties . |
| 7 | It is important to know exactly when a contract is made because until that time either party is free to back out . |
| 8 | As you thought , Mrs. Jack has not been able to state openly that a parent can withdraw a child if they so wish as it would be seen , like Tayside , to undermine ‘ the consensual approach ’ . |
| 9 | In one field the soil was arid ; nothing seemed able to grow there but a sort of grass that even sheep disdained , and thistles a hobbled donkey was sampling . |
| 10 | However not all respondents were able to do so and a number of them gave figures for exports during their company 's financial year . |
| 11 | However , not all respondents were able to do so and a number of them gave figures for exports during their company 's financial year . |
| 12 | He must be able to decide rightly whether a native chiefs first offence should be punished , or whether patience should be exercised until he has offended ten , nay twenty times — either course may be the right one , it depends entirely on circumstances . |
| 13 | But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats . |
| 14 | It was important to get there and a lift in Miles ' odious yellow Cortina was as good a way as any other . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If in order to decide the question of jurisdiction it is necessary to determine finally whether a contract exists or not it would seem to follow that if the conclusion arrived at was that no contract existed then ex hypothesi the conditions of article 5(1) would not be met and the court would have no jurisdiction . |
| 17 | If an application to rescind a bankruptcy order is to be made , application should be considered also , as a preliminary measure , for an order requiring the official receiver to suspend the action which he is otherwise obliged to take immediately after a bankruptcy order has been made , namely , to send notice of the order to the Chief Land Registrar , to advertise the order in a local newspaper and to gazette the order ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 18 | For example , it is necessary to show mathematically that a DOG filter will act as a zero-crossing detector and that there are cells in the visual system that operate as DOG filters . |
| 19 | Finally , the requirement that a bystander should be terrified was qualified where the offence occurred in public , so that it was not necessary to prove either that a bystander was actually terrified , or even present , or even that a bystander was even likely to be present . |
| 20 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |