Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst it is not possible to conceive of a designing system which can take into account influences which are beyond the designer 's knowledge and comprehension , it is possible to generate a fundamental design procedure in which all relationships , known to the designer , are " captured " and tested for . |
| 2 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 3 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 4 | Parents will be interested to know of the sort of records that will be kept on their children . |
| 5 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 6 | At a time when the problems of war and , later , unemployment were national priorities , it would be fallacious to talk of the existence of a ‘ poverty lobby ’ , operating on a broad front and according equal status to all disadvantaged groups . |
| 7 | Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays . |
| 8 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 9 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 10 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 11 | Others , however , think it proper to speak of the intention of Parliament , in the sense of ‘ the meaning which Parliament must have intended the words to convey . ’ |
| 12 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 13 | Further , for the reasons which I have given , the action which the applicant has begun in the Bow County Court appears to me to be , in Lord Lowry 's words , ‘ ill suited to dispose of the question at issue . ’ |
| 14 | You 're right to talk of the past . |
| 15 | Following this judgment , it now seems almost impossible to conceive of a clause preventing set-off which fell within the ambit of s 3 ( ie either in a consumer contract , or in written standard conditions ) which would be both commercially practical and legally enforceable . |
| 16 | It is virtually impossible to conceive of a Type II system operating successfully with cash-limited Health Authorities . |
| 17 | It is virtually impossible to conceive of a Type 11 system operating with cash-limited health authorities . |
| 18 | There are local sceptical arguments of this strongest type , as we shall see in chapter 5 ( our knowledge of other minds ) ; and in our discussion of our knowledge of the past and of the future ( chapters 10 and 11 ) we shall have to bear in mind arguments that it is impossible to conceive of an event as other than present , i.e. as being in the past or in the future . |
| 19 | The range of essentially economic issues revealed by the ensuing debate was such that it was almost impossible to conceive of the solution being affected by either brigade or club . |
| 20 | It is at least equally easy to conceive of a divide between Labour ( 35 per cent ) and anti-Labour ( the rest ) . |
| 21 | But is it so easy to conceive of a pain which is not hurting you ? |
| 22 | It may be that this relexicalized version has not been actually attested and , may never occur in the future but it acquires normality because it is relatively easy to conceive of a context for it . |
| 23 | By August 1936 it was no longer appropriate to talk of a coup . |
| 24 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 25 | I was delighted to hear of the conversion of the hon. Member for Normanton to full-blooded capitalism . |
| 26 | I was sad to hear of the murder , but I did not worry about it . |
| 27 | His many friends and colleagues will be sad to hear of the death of Edwin ( Eddie ) Ketley at his home in New Zealand on 6th March . |
| 28 | He liked Eden , and he found it easy to disapprove of the way in which Chamberlain had handled relations with him . |
| 29 | SIR — I was dismayed to read of the theft of Harry Vardon 's statue from South Herts Golf Club ; let us hope it may soon be recovered . |
| 30 | It was sad to read of the death of Michael Seely , racing correspondent of The Times , who lost the fight against a serious illness earlier this week . |