Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [is] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the space of one chapter it is impossible to cover all the detailed aspects of investment appraisal . |
| 2 | With practice it is possible to increase this speed considerably , bearing in mind the following points : |
| 3 | In practice it is necessary to classify these soils . |
| 4 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 5 | Each circuit can feed up to 12 lighting points , but in practice it is wise to restrict this to a maximum of eight , to allow for some to contain more than one bulb . |
| 6 | In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH . |
| 7 | The view of senior management is that policemen need to combine the qualities of compassion and toughness and know when each is appropri — ate ( FN 11/11/87 , pp. 7–8 ) , although in practice it is difficult to strike this fine balance . |
| 8 | By supplying addition molecules of chlorine it is possible to replace all the hydrogen atoms . |
| 9 | ‘ to proceed beyond the stop line of a ‘ Pelican ’ crossing when the vehicular traffic signal was showing a red light' As the most common defence to this type of offence is that the lights were still at green it is desirable to prove this point convincingly . |
| 10 | For ease of reference it is simpler to call these two main sources ‘ paper ’ and ‘ people ’ . |
| 11 | If you have relied on the services of external designers to produce artwork it is foolish to imagine that internal staff with no training can achieve similar results . |
| 12 | Because of the scale of the need , the limitations of staff and resources and the pressure of other work it is unrealistic to expect that local authorities could provide a comprehensive training programme immediately . |
| 13 | But particularly in the absence of a coherent professional philosophy it is reasonable to suppose that social and occupational origins also play an important part in shaping judicial attitudes to imprisonment in this country . |
| 14 | On a technical basis it is possible to exclude those Continental examples which are not made in the same tradition as the English ones . |
| 15 | Now that all the usual street noises are back in place it 's hard to think this is not a normal day . |
| 16 | Putting aside these cases of major civil strife it is possible to discern some consistency in the pattern of apparently arbitrary economic decisions taken by governments , whether or not in the form of ‘ great leaps ’ . |
| 17 | To complete the picture it is necessary to add that , at each reference to babies and new life , Mrs Bostock and Eliza Waters had exchanged meaningful smiles . |
| 18 | Although our eyes can not detect variations in reflectance in the near-infrared band it is possible to measure such variations using appropriate instruments . |
| 19 | At this point it is appropriate to note that gender , as an organizing principle of the school structure and of wider social relations , varies considerably in the strength of its ‘ framing power ’ . |
| 20 | If the current owner does not wish to continue with an involvement in the business after its sale but currently has a day to day role in the business it is important to address this issue and to demonstrate the ability of the remainder of the management team to perform without him . |
| 21 | The only rest he is likely to get this weekend is at Camp David . |
| 22 | For anyone working within an organisation it is important to understand both . |
| 23 | However , if one party is to bear the costs of the other it is important to specify this in the heads and ensure it is binding on all parties . |
| 24 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 25 | Through verbal mediation it is able to fix some of the criteria applied and something of the meaning extracted in the perception of art . |
| 26 | Section 36 of the Partnership Act assists in this connection : ( 1 ) Where a person deals with a firm after a change in its constitution he is entitled to treat all apparent members of the old firm as still being members of the firm until he has notice of the change . |
| 27 | If there is sufficient space it is possible to choose some people to play leapfrog during the chorus . |
| 28 | It would be easy to conclude from this research that fat can actually cause heart disease but with so many other factors to be taken into consideration it is impossible to make such a simple statement . |
| 29 | But before expanding on this interpretation it is necessary to consider some evidence that is apparently directly contradictory . |
| 30 | From his approach it is possible to link some eigh-teenth-century forms of recreation to the revised view of nineteenth-century forms recently presented by Dr Cunningham with its greater emphasis on commercial provision for working-class tastes . |