Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for .
2 The aim is to disseminate messages as widely as possible within a given community .
3 But the aim is to help parents financially even though the actuality falls short of the intention of preventing family poverty .
4 How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way .
5 The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets .
6 Industry preparing for the Government legislation is luring inspectors away faster than they can be recruited to enforce it .
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