Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I just hate categories and sometimes new age can connotate airy-fairy , ridiculous things , whereas the synchro-energiser is based on scientific research . ’ |
| 2 | Garg and Gotlieb have developed a method that is related to interpolation searching , and in which the algorithm is based on an analysis of the key sequence , rather than on a presupposition such as the effectiveness of any particular procedure — say mid-square or division . |
| 3 | The heuristic component of the algorithm is given by some estimate h(N) which is a guess at the cost of a cheapest path from N to a goal . |
| 4 | The algorithm is implemented in the program yacorder and is used for positioning contigs which do not contain any mapped probes and so can not be positioned directly . |
| 5 | In Fig. 8.1. the algorithm is misled into taking the leftmost path because its actual cost , 3 , is less than the estimate , 4 , ( though not the actual cost , 2 ) of the correct , rightmost path . |
| 6 | The algorithm is supplied with a heuristic function , called f , and it chooses nodes from OPEN in order of their f values . |
| 7 | The algorithm is described by Walker . |
| 8 | To address this difficulty the algorithm was changed to a depth-first one . |
| 9 | Immediately , they heard raised voices and saw that the porter was engaged in an altercation with two men in trench coats . |
| 10 | The porter was standing on the platform , his hands dug into his overall pockets . |
| 11 | The use that may be made of the occurrence or non-occurrence of a reinvestigation by the defence is bound to be problematic . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the defence is limited to the ‘ mischievous , deliberate and conscious act of a stranger , ’ and therefore excludes his negligent acts . |
| 13 | The defence is confined to absence of supply , for example where the goods are stolen from the manufacturer or scrapped by him . |
| 14 | If the defence is used by a drug manufacturer where a new drug has caused damage to users , then provided he can show that laboratory tests showed no defects , he would be justified in marketing the drug while testing is still under way . |
| 15 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 16 | The principal argument for the defence was summarised in the judgment of Winneke C.J. and Pape J. , at p. 355 : |
| 17 | Disposing of the case , Lord Stott analysed the ‘ legal fiction ’ upon which the defence was based in terms of the three steps of imputed knowledge involved : |
| 18 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 19 | But the major plank of the defence was provided by the remarkable lady journalist Suzanne Cronjé . |
| 20 | It is of course taken for granted that the loading is such that always so that the response is given by equations ( 8.11 ) ( 8.13 ) . |
| 21 | I 'm aware that our backs are up against the wall as regards time because the response is meant to be in by Friday erm I do n't think actually that this is the the paper that Vince is presenting , although in fact , surely raises issues , I do n't think it is actually response as it stands , I think it is a paper which raises items of issues for this committee to consider , I do n't think in itself it serves as a response . |
| 22 | I think it all depends on what the British feel the response is going to be , either today or in the future . |
| 23 | Resting gall bladder pressure was the mean pressure recorded over a five minute period immediately before an intravenous bolus of either CCK-8 or bethanechol , and the response was defined as the maximal change in intraluminal pressure recorded during the first five minute period after the bolus . |
| 24 | Countries , particularly developing countries , need the income , and unless the income is replaced by the international community they must seek the economic worth of their resources . |
| 25 | Special rules apply to fresh sources of income : broadly , in the early years the income is assessed on an actual basis . |
| 26 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 27 | Thus , lower rates will be payable if the income is paid to beneficiaries with low incomes . |
| 28 | What happens if the income is paid to a person resident in the United Kingdom and it is paid so that it is received as taxable income in the hands of that beneficiary ? |
| 29 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 30 | It was held that the brothers " were the architects of an arrangement within the definition of s437 " ( now TA 1988 , s663 ) ( Vinelott J at p685 ) thus , when dividends were paid on the shares to the children that was income arising from a transaction which had the necessary element of bounty and the income was taxed upon the settlor ( as the children were minors ) . |