Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 2 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 4 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 5 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 6 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 7 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 8 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 9 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 10 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 11 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 12 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 13 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 14 | If a machine is effectively cleaned and disinfected service can be extended to three day intervals providing there are no extreme environmental or siting factors . |
| 15 | Iain Milne , Heriot 's much admired and respected Bear , was briefly an Anglo-Scot with Harlequins . |
| 16 | Looking for the most cost-effective approach , ERC 's highly qualified and experienced employees will make a thorough inspection of a customer 's used equipment , wellheads and valves and make repairs according to industry standards . |
| 17 | In the absence of a reasonably permanent alliance , the possibility of shareholder collaboration is better understood as limiting management freedom of action , but not as in itself amounting to a control position . |
| 18 | It is hard to decide whether the result is better seen as self-indulgent twaddle , or , as Robert Lowell said of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse : ‘ Maybe it 's the ultimate Larkin poem ’ , so maybe this is the supreme Ted Hughes fiction . |
| 19 | Underpinning government faith in UDCs is the belief that a single-minded agency with limited objectives , using streamlined administrative procedures and free from political ambiguity is better placed than local authorities to turn round a closely defined area ( Adcock , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech . |
| 21 | It will be a world in which individuality is better respected and social consciousness is more mature . |
| 22 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |
| 23 | While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize . |
| 24 | The risks involved are thus extremely high , and it is generally recognised that close management control of these companies by the venture capital funds in necessary , as compared with the more remote approach of investors on the Stock Exchange . |
| 25 | However , it is generally recognised that economic considerations are undoubtedly important in shaping the changes which have occurred within existing structures over the course of time since collective bargaining itself is an evolving social institution . |
| 26 | Apart from city states , e.g. Singapore , it is generally recognised that agricultural development must precede ( or at least match ) industrial development . |
| 27 | It is generally recognised that casual working is still important in certain industrial/occupational labour markets , particularly that of the hotels and catering industry , although the question of whether the casual status of their jobs is a source of disadvantage to the people who work in this fashion is one which has , as yet , scarcely been answered . |
| 28 | In 1912 Edison introduced the compatible ‘ Blue Amberol ’ records made of an even tougher plastic ; and it is generally accepted that Blue Amberols had a better , higher fidelity performance than any other medium before the First World War . |
| 29 | It is generally accepted that increasing lake acidification due to acid deposition has caused fish kills and stock depletion ( figure 4.14 ) . |
| 30 | It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions . |