Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Thirdly it is true , as the judgments in the Court of Appeal point out , that ex parte applications are frequently made to the courts and granted without hearing the party affected : but merely to say this overlooks that procedure invariably exists , and is where necessary invoked , for enabling the party affected rapidly to seek annulment or amendment of the order made against him . |
2 | And divorce is or sorry , remarriage is not allowed for members of the Anglican Church . |
3 | what consequential loss is or indirect loss ? |
4 | The transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(a) is where R' represents the resistance of R in parallel with R L , while the transfer function of the circuit of figure 8.5(b) is or Respective comparison of equations ( 8.11 ) and ( 8.14 ) with equations ( 8.17 ) and ( 8.18 ) reveals that the circuit of figure 8.5(a) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(a) and acts as a low-pass filter while the circuit of figure 8.5(b) responds similarly to that of figure 8.3(b) and acts as a high-pass filter . |
5 | Well if you save tax yes it is or bad planning try to keep it as broad as we possibly can . |
6 | and there 's the parts that 's or obvious or they 're not so important , you know , between |
7 | That is why we should regard Labour 's albeit genuine crocodile tears as extremely salty . |
8 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
9 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
10 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
11 | In short , the law is unclear , though perhaps the better view is that subjective knowledge is required . |
12 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
13 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
14 | The significance of this result is that broad bean pollen is completely devoid of carotenoids , and some of these chemicals are the physiological precursors of vitamin A. |
15 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
16 | Moreover , with the microfiche databases available on subscription and therefore immediately accessible to subscribers , the effect is that certain types of straightforward database searches are less necessary on individual demand . |
17 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
18 | The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent . |
19 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now get the cars of their dreams for a song , and they could even end up being a good little earner . |
20 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
21 | The pessimistic conclusion is that electoral democracy can only survive by not tackling major social injustices and alienating powerful interest groups in society — in which case the poor will , in the long run , not consider democracy worth supporting . |
22 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
23 | A second point to be noted in this , and in a large number of other conversational fragments , is that personal topics are frequently introduced through first person reference in one form or another . |
24 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
25 | The argument is that serious sexual assaults , and the attitude of many men towards them , derive from a male-dominated approach to sexuality in which aggressive sexual behaviour by males is praised or condoned whilst women are associated with passivity . |
26 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
27 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
28 | A not-surprising result is that low market share coupled with high capital intensity spells disaster . |
29 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
30 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |