Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
| 2 | Although there is a small case of sketches juxtaposed with finished products ( a Richard Meier key ring and a Hans Hollein wristwatch ) , it is frustrating that larger objects in the Met 's collection ( from an 1879 Tiffany mixed-metal salver and a Woodstock cabinet made at Byrdcliffe Colony around 1904 , to 1988 chairs by Emilio Ambasz and George Ranalli and a Morison Cousins prototype ‘ Soup to Nuts ’ bowl for Tupperware ) could not have also been included beside their preparatory drawings . |
| 3 | Considerable interest is now centred upon these problems and it is appropriate that physical geographers should be very aware of the work being undertaken and the work remaining . |
| 4 | Hence it is appropriate that local councils are dependent on central funds . |
| 5 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 6 | And — good grief — the news that it is successful and powerful females saying this is enough to make strong women weep into their double gins . |
| 7 | And it is good that other agencies are being involved . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever the basis for these suspicions , it is undeniable that close connections between the mining companies and some prominent politicians were to raise grave doubts about the legitimacy of state actions in relation to mining . |
| 9 | It is undeniable that most readers find amusement to be part of their experience of these texts . |
| 10 | It is the simplest and most obvious layout , but there are , of course , other patterns — such as the radial pattern of so many modern housing estates — and it is odd that these others should not have been tried out until within our own time . |
| 11 | It is probable that many factors are involved in the incidence , and that these vary among populations . |
| 12 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
| 13 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 14 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
| 15 | It considers that early implementation-would not add greatly to the costs of preparation of financial statements and that it is probable that such costs would be exceeded by the benefits to users . |
| 16 | It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable . |
| 17 | It is probable that Minoan citizens offered real robes to the temple for this purpose : some may have been woven in the temple itself , given that loom-weights were found in the cellars of the East Wing of the Labyrinth . |
| 18 | Bacterial synthesis of protein from industrial residues or organic wastes such as wood pulp is under investigation and it is probable that viable processes will be developed . |
| 19 | It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee . |
| 20 | Over the period between 1872 and 1905 it is probable that increased facilities for reporting and prosecuting cattle theft resulted in a gradual increase in the proportion of crimes which were reported . |
| 21 | However , it is probable that varying degrees of impairment of peripheral uptake of triglyceride interact with enhanced , normal or decreased secretion of VLDL to produce the wide range of lipid levels observed in untreated diabetes . |
| 22 | It is probable that these changes in signal represent areas of necrosis , granulation tissue , and fibrosis but their importance in terms of clinical management and in identifying residual active cancer remains uncertain . |
| 23 | It is probable that these individuals were well and asymptomatic or had minimal symptoms . |
| 24 | In these circumstances , it is probable that both transactions will be regarded as interdependent so that the part exchange element may be construed as a sale subject to a condition subsequently , thereby , making it determinable if the financier does not accept the transaction . |
| 25 | It is probable that some islands around Britain have been formed by the oscillatory nature of Pleistocene sea level ( Fig. 9.3 ) . |
| 26 | Following changes in school curricula , and the consequent introduction of the new first-year course described above , it is probable that some lectures will be introduced into the fourth year , and graduate lectures will be increased . |
| 27 | It is probable that some units on sale will find applications in other , wood-rich developing countries . |
| 28 | It is indisputable that such obstacles as poor financing and staffing , and sustained police opposition have made them practically unworkable : ‘ typically the pressure of police unions and the operation of political manipulation has resulted in these Boards becoming inoperative edifices to the democratic principle , or at best fairly toothless bureaucracies ’ ( McKenzie and Gallagher , 1989:109 ) . |
| 29 | Examples of statements reflecting the recent necessary missionary zeal are included in Table 6.1 Indeed it is indisputable that physical geographers have entered the field later than they should have done . |
| 30 | In most areas the continental crust consists of a thirty-kilometre thick slab of such rocks , but under high mountain ranges it is fifty or more kilometres thick . |