Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [that] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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1 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
2 | The implications are unavoidable : ‘ … it is clear that the life and death of Christ have no efficacy in this scheme of things … the salvation of the world is now wrought by the events of the life of Constantine , symbolized by his saving sign ’ . |
3 | it is clear that the name and role mapping can take place independently . |
4 | It is clear that the warp and woof of everyday life in stepfamilies differs from that of unbroken families not merely because of external constraints which frustrate the efforts of those who may seek , as some do , to recast their family lives in the mould of the nuclear family , but that family norms themselves may also be markedly altered , tempered to fit the limits of the new situation and fabricated anew from the post-marital residue of family beliefs and sentiments . |
5 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
6 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |
7 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
8 | Before recording any detailed information on the lesson , it is important to ensure that the classroom atmosphere is such that the material and the teaching it supports are getting reasonable attention from the class . |
9 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
10 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
11 | The WYSIWYG that word processors offer has always been based around monospaced fonts because that is all that the computer and printer have been able to cope with . |
12 | He is confident that the government and the army will accept what the assembly decides . |
13 | At supervisory/management level , the industry still lacks trained personnel ; it is important that the hotel and catering courses attract their fair share of the extra young people who will be gaining qualifications , that the programmes of study meet industry needs and that once these qualified people come into the industry they stay and are not lost in the first two or three years . |
14 | In some cases , infill development of this kind may be irresistible , but it is important that the quality and potential of the garden should be assessed first . |
15 | Some work canteens do serve salads or jacket potatoes , which will be useful when you reach Stage III of the diet , but initially it is important that the weight and calorie content of your diet is exact or as near as possible . |
16 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
17 | ‘ The Law Society is proud that a solicitor and member of its Council has been chosen for the important post of Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
18 | In order to ensure that the cost accounts are a proven and reliable record it is essential that the cost and financial accounts are integrated . |
19 | On the question of registration of electors , clearly it is very important that if we now have less than nine weeks from this evening for those possibly four hundred thousand people to seek registration then the it is essential that the minister and the department er engage in a serious advertising campaign to ensure that people can exercise the rights that are due to them and I would like the minister perhaps in his later remarks , to expand on what , if any , measure the government intends to take to publicise the fact of E C voting rights to those four hundred thousand or so er European citizens of voting age resident in this country . |
20 | It is essential that the teamwork and positive approach to our work continues so that we can cope with any increase which may be generated from an improvement in trading . |
21 | ‘ I do n't know the size of the decline , but it is incontrovertible that the market and ICI Fertilizers will be smaller than it is today . |
22 | It is surprising that the work and evolution of the hospital was not in any way linked up with the Powick project : first , because of the knowledge evidently acquired about the prospects and techniques for resettling the long-stay population , with which the Department of Health was concerned , and second , because of the enhanced rehabilitation resources which it offered . |
23 | It is noteworthy that the health and demographic consequences of early marriage or union of females differ in developed and developing countries , mainly because , in the former , contraceptive knowledge and practice are more prevalent and health standards are superior . |
24 | Public inquiries have the advantage that they remove all suspicion of cover-up from any government department , and it is true that the examination and cross-examination by skilled counsel usually leads to the veracity and relevance of the evidence being established . |
25 | Well they are not being granted more freely , th when a an an exemption is granted , the inspector , the inspector , who grants the exemption has got to say that he is satisfied that the health and safety of the workforce will not be jeopardized . |
26 | If the court is satisfied that the petition and other documents presented to it are in order , the petition and all the copies will be sealed and two copies handed back to the petitioner . |