Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of reciprocity in the relationship is rarely thought an important issue to research . |
| 2 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 3 | The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes . |
| 4 | Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200 . |
| 5 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 6 | The stated aim is to bring product engineering closer to customers ; the Wall Street Journal quotes a senior DEC manager saying president Ken Olsen feels DEC is not getting an adequate return on its $1,600m annual investment in product engineering . |
| 7 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 8 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 9 | BSL learning usually begins beyond what is normally considered an optimal age and should therefore be compared with the learning of foreign languages later in life . |
| 10 | Training Services in my constituency last week and that its programme is already providing an environmental study centre at Basildon zoo , a garden for St. Luke 's hospice at Basildon hospital and recreational facilities for the Charitable Printers Trust and that it is restoring old churches in my constituency ? |
| 11 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 12 | The government 's soon to host an international summit on drugs . |
| 13 | The aim is always to select an appropriate method , one which answers the question as clearly as possible . |
| 14 | The first function of the Commons is still to sustain an effective government . |
| 15 | And this BSA built in 1927 is still enjoying an active life … |
| 16 | To stand your ground against brothers and sisters is traditionally considered an early preparation for the realities of life . |
| 17 | The Bradford and Bingley Building Society is also using an IV package . |
| 18 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 19 | Miss Mollison is also developing an original idea for a three-part TV thriller . |
| 20 | The same company is also releasing an intelligent workstation , to bolster its terminals business . |
| 21 | The Council is also proposing an Advanced Award in Social Work which will be based on a system of credits taking into account both post-qualifying training and practice . |
| 22 | Every show has a strong educational component built into it and Precious is also planning an overall strategy , ‘ Art as Education ’ . |
| 23 | The Group is also planning an annual conference and exhibition of related hardware and software and also intends to establish a full electronic bulletin board service allowing on-line problem solving . |
| 24 | SCOTVEC 's Product Development Unit is also playing an active role in the piloting process . |
| 25 | Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations ' economy because it is a source of foreign income . |
| 26 | He 's also preparing an interim guide to it for imminent launch . |
| 27 | The task of the salesman is both to establish an ongoing relationship with his customer , and also to charge as close as possible to what the market will bear . |
| 28 | Sir : Your special report on the green revolution and how the investment industry is now wearing an ecological heart on its sleeve ( 27 September ) was timely . |
| 29 | Britain , ejected so ignominiously from Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) in September 1992 , is now enjoying an economic recovery worthy of the name . |
| 30 | That awaits the passage of the World Heritage ( Properties Protection ) Bill , which has already been passed by the Senate and is now guaranteed an easy passage through the House of Representatives . |