Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 He states that one rarely needs more than one granule although two or three can obviously be used if a stronger solution is required .
2 The Product can only be registered if a known Product package and Package version have been entered using option 5.1.2 — Update Product .
3 Fault scarps will only be formed where a fault breaks the surface ; they can either die out laterally or merge into a monocline ( Fig. 3.33(A) ) .
4 At Bury St Edmunds the franchise was vested in the thirty-seven members of the corporation , but the complexion of the electorate could only be altered when a vacancy occurred naturally in their ranks .
5 It can only be activated when a false statement actually damages a reputation .
6 In addition GDR citizenship would only be lost if a citizen renounced it .
7 If a third party has harmed the child , therefore , the statutory criteria will only be met if a reasonable parent would have acted to prevent the harm or was unable to do so because of his lack of control over the child .
8 A licence can only be refused when a ground of refusal under 5.17 of the Act is present .
9 The industry was protected until the early 1970s by the rule that foreign machines ( including IBM machines produced in Japan ) could only be purchased if a suitable Japanese model was not available .
10 It may be that a product or process is protected by a patent and can only be produced if a firm purchases the patent right or enters a licensing agreement .
11 Such impracticality could perhaps be measured as a function of word length .
12 Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences .
13 This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be .
14 This could easily be sent because a large tree in the garden seeded in all the borders and cuttings rooted easily , like willows .
15 This can easily be avoided if a simple , systematic check is followed .
16 Discussion will usually be allowed before a motion is proposed , although the formal ruling is the safest course for the Chairman to adopt .
17 There must be evidence adduced from which a conclusion can properly and genuinely be drawn that a contract existed and that the place of performance was the country in which the action was brought .
18 Although a conviction is perfectly possible where no harm results — and such a case might still be regarded as a most serious non-fatal offence , since D tried to cause death , and the subjective principles confirm the high guilt — there are also cases where D's attempt to kill results in serious injury to the victim .
19 Although the client 's permission will always be sought before a trainee sits in , many clients may feel unable to refuse , even though they are certain that they will be uncomfortable with a third party present .
20 Switches can always be made although a charge of £10 plus a 1 per cent bid/offer spread would be payable .
21 There is no record of its occupying caves at any time , but it must always be remembered that a woodland species in cave country could drop its pellets from the tree in which it is roosting to fall into or near cave openings , so that even without entering a cave the pellets of such a predator could accumulate inside the cave ( see p. 96 ) .
22 It can never be said of a theory that it is true , however well it has withstood rigorous tests , but it can hopefully be said that a current theory is superior to its predecessors in the sense that it is able to withstand tests that falsified those predecessors .
23 If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? …
24 It is understood that the ANLT is by no means complete ( no rule-based grammars are ) and therefore no complaint can reasonably be made when a sentence such as ( 3 ) fails to produce a parse .
25 It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement .
26 It could also be questioned whether a system of specialised representatives is desirable in that it may not produce a group of people willing to take an overall view of the question .
27 Such arrangements may also be adopted as a first tentative step towards full merger ; ( 2 ) where the aim is to pool resources with a view to lowering overhead costs and achieving administrative savings .
28 The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board .
29 It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure .
30 It should also be noted that a covenant limiting hours of access may not limit hours of use of the demised property , provided that the tenant arrives before permitted hours cease and leaves after they recommence .
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