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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | In short , the law is unclear , though perhaps the better view is that subjective knowledge is required . |
| 10 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
| 16 | The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 25 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 26 | A not-surprising result is that low market share coupled with high capital intensity spells disaster . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 30 | The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving . |