Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action . |
| 2 | Economists frequently complain that such calculations reveal very different implicit marginal benefits across activities , which is unsurprising when those responsible for safety standards in building , motoring , medicine , and other areas make no attempt to reach a common view of the marginal social benefit from saving life . |
| 3 | The second area is that of public relations , by which is meant that good public relations exercises , as opposed to advertising , on the part of both individual lawyers and the professional bodies themselves should be encouraged . |
| 4 | So , if you take out an endowment mortgage which is described as joint payable in the event of the first death , this means that if either of you dies , the policy will repay the mortgage linked to that policy . |
| 5 | Let's see who 's dressed and ready first ! ’ |
| 6 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 7 | Now it 's hoped that these hungry youngsters will soon have a mother of their own too . |
| 8 | It 's hoped that three thousand jobs will be created but now council leaders fear that , because of the recession , a buyer will be difficult to find . |
| 9 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 10 | It 's estimated that 5,000 Somalian children are dying every day ; 3 every minute . |
| 11 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 12 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 13 | A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed . |
| 14 | ‘ It is fitting that these important landscape features should be given priority and where possible repaired or rebuilt , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 15 | It is hypothesised that most existing studies of adoption are not sufficiently long term to , demonstrate these effects . |
| 16 | When the new system is introduced the caretaking staff will not be amongst those identified as operators and it is intended that these revised hours will assist caretaking staff by freeing them for more appropriate duties . |
| 17 | It is intended that this new sponsorship will become an annual event . |
| 18 | It is recognised that primary sclerosing cholangitis may exist ( on histological criteria ) in the absence of cholangiographic abnormalities , and it is possible that early AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis may likewise be present with a normal cholangiogram . |
| 19 | It is recognised that many permanent staff are concerned about getting a job associated with the Council Tax . |
| 20 | A coherent school policy on Standard English is possible if it is recognised that all these views are legitimate . |
| 21 | ( It is said that distinguished foreign guests of the Swiss Confederation visiting Bern are invariably taken out to dine somewhere in the Emmental . ) |
| 22 | It is said that these underground beings , djinn , rise in the half light of pre-dawn and in the twilight . |
| 23 | In 1885 it is recorded that transparent thin sections of rocks were sent to London for microscopic investigation and 3 years later sections of English and Irish rocks were being made in Edinburgh . |
| 24 | Noting that the transfer function relevant to some filtering inductance L in series with load resistance R is it is seen that all that is needed to synthesise the transfer function of equation ( 12.6 ) is to introduce series inductance related to the load resistance R and desired critical pulsatance by |
| 25 | It is hoped that new international standards will also be set for code marks that identify which polymer has been used in plastic packaging manufacture , making recycling that much easier . |
| 26 | In addition to the volunteers and paid members of the Civil engineering Group who will be attending , it is hoped that contemporary senior members of staff most closely associated with Project Blaenau will also be present : |
| 27 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 28 | It is hoped that this phenomenal increase will soon level out . |
| 29 | It is hoped that this meagre expedition into social history may provide at least some indication of the extent to which each decade has bred people of differing outlook on sexuality and an indication of the way in which different styles of upbringing and ways of social thinking in the childhood years of successive decades might be expected to affect the outlook and tolerance of adults throughout the varying age groups of society . |
| 30 | Managing director Albero Sandoval places the potential market at 100,000 users , predicting that this will rise to 600,000 subscribers over the next 10 years , of which it is hoped that some 300,000 will use Sistelcom 's system . |