Example sentences of "is that a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 2 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 3 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 4 | All it tells us is that a man walked through the wood and threw a white stick down . |
| 5 | What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely . |
| 6 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 7 | The main difference is that a style has evolved known as open punctuation in which all punctuation outside of the main body of the letter is omitted . |
| 8 | The logical consequence , no doubt , is that a promise to accept a smaller sum in discharge of a larger sum , if acted upon , is binding notwithstanding the absence of consideration : and if the fusion of law and equity leads to this result , so much the better . |
| 9 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 10 | One is that a person has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) . |
| 11 | The position is that a trust has been set up in favour of the family . |
| 12 | The meaning is that a ruling has been made on an enquiry into " rings " developing in the art world . |
| 13 | The reason for this is that a window provides light only on one side ; the other three sides and the top consist of the walls of the room and its ceiling , and the loss of available light is considerable . |
| 14 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 15 | following on from that er that the point that I think is being made is that a contribution does not have to be put forward in a shape of a question to be er a useful contribution to the debate and and your erm pressure upon er the lady who spoke er a while ago was er insisting that she she |
| 16 | ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’ |
| 17 | The result of this is that a spelling like with can realize three separate classes : OE wiht ( 'wight , person' ) , OE wip ( 'with' ) , and OE hwit ( 'white' ) , and this of course applies to other items of these types . |
| 18 | The new Directory holds everything from users and their privileges to file servers and printers as objects within a distributed database — the result is that a user logging onto one server gets immediate access to resources , irrespective of location on the internet . |
| 19 | Where I think you are , where you get into problems with that , are things like , assertiveness training , negotiating , Well assertiveness training is that a competence based thing or not ? |
| 20 | The basic legal distinction between them is that a share constitutes the holder a member of the company , whereas the debenture holder is a creditor of the company but not a member of it . |
| 21 | The essential is that a message received in one form is transmitted in another form . |
| 22 | They are used as reserves of migrant labour and ray materials , to which the developed centre can export its unemployment when necessary : the importance of sovereignty is that a Bantustan carries political responsibility for handling the consequences of economic downturn , while the developed centre carries little or none . |
| 23 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 24 | This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does . |
| 25 | The only drawback , in a subject where condition is paramount , is that a number have suffered from over-zealous cleaning by the resident armourers . |
| 26 | What concerns us more is that a letter written by Wilson 's aunt in August 1992 informed us that Wilson 's mother was having an operation on her throat , and that her situation was ‘ very bad ’ . |
| 27 | The only basis on which costs can be awarded is that a party has acted ‘ frivolously , vexatiously or otherwise unreasonably ’ . |
| 28 | The other fact annoying the ARFU is that a precedent had already been set when the All Blacks played in Canada before touring Wales and Ireland in 1989 . |
| 29 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 30 | Tranmere 's fear is that a move inspired by the Pools companies , who pay the League a great deal of money each year , will result in clubs being forbidden to switch fixtures away from the traditional Saturday except where television or the Police demand otherwise . |