Example sentences of "is [subord] [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 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 3 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
| 4 | What hits home is if batty wanted to leave … fuck me anyone could . |
| 5 | you know , part of me was thinking well just a minute you know this service is if blind people can offer describers , but on the other hand people are entitled to go away on holiday |
| 6 | One is if local elements are arranged in parallel with independent access to the output mechanisms . |
| 7 | The only basis on which criticism can be made of the inevitable decline in investment during the recession is if high praise is lavished on the Government for the three years in the last 1980s when investment touched peaks . |
| 8 | If isostatic compensation is local , that is if vertical adjustments of the lithosphere in response to the removal of a load are confined just to the area covered by the original load , then isostatic uplift simply reduces the rate at which a land-surface is lowered by denudation ( Fig. 4.7(A) ) . |
| 9 | If this constraint is important in reality , that is if sufficient outside individuals or firms are actively considering opportunities , then it would seem the only way to avoid takeover is to employ the company 's assets efficiently . |
| 10 | This is because regular continuous aerobic exercise like brisk walking is a fat burning activity whereas start-stop anaerobic exercises like squash and tennis are carbohydrate burning activities . |
| 11 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 12 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 13 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 14 | This is because variable scribal usage is likely to be functional in some way , just as spoken variation is functional ( as suggested in chapter 2 ) , and the most immediately obvious function of an alphabetic writing system is to relate writing to speech-forms , however complicated this relationship may be . |
| 15 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
| 16 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 17 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 18 | This is because implicit in the calculation of the yield to maturity as the internal rate of return is the assumption that each coupon payment as it arises is reinvested at the internal rate of return . |
| 19 | This is because good control is reached at a much lower ground speed . |
| 20 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |
| 21 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 22 | This is because economic and monetary union will cause a very complex chain of reactions : the systemic changes will lead to policy changes , and both will condition behavioural changes in the economy , before arriving at the final impacts in terms of economic well-being ’ . |
| 23 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 24 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 25 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 26 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 27 | This is because current connectionist networks must duplicate all the nodes and connections for each unit in the system in order to represent temporal aspects of the problem . |
| 28 | This is because other techniques , by themselves , are either inadequate ( eg pump-and-treat ) , do not permanently solve the problem ( eg immobilisation or containment ) , or have the potential to be very expensive ( eg incineration ) . |
| 29 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |
| 30 | This is because other dealings as principal with the firm may technically not be investment business by the counterparty ; because the firm is an authorised person the own account exemption in para 17 of Sched 1 would normally apply . |