Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 2 | More recently , however , interest in the left and right brain is due to work involving split-brain patients . |
| 3 | Unix distributor Qualix is due to announce SayIt this week , a new productivity software product that will let Sun users operate their Sparcs by voice commands . |
| 4 | It is annoying to have to spend extra money on postage for a small order , but even more annoying to experience considerable delay in obtaining the book for our customer . |
| 5 | Females are just as colourful as males , and it is hopeless to try to sex this fish on the basis of colour |
| 6 | It is possible to attempt to justify poor practice by claiming that it 's response to parents wishes : silent classrooms brought about by severe discipline , numerous paper exercises completed to provide evidence of industry and antiquated forms of behaviour paraded as good manners are just some examples . |
| 7 | The assumption that the rate of technical advance is exogenous has meant that tax policy affected only the steady-state levels of the capital-labour ratio , wages , etc . |
| 8 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 9 | As part of its effort to enter the international nuclear market , the Indian Atomic Energy Commission has announced that it is prepared to reprocess spent nuclear fuels from other countries . |
| 10 | He is prepared to die to end this war . |
| 11 | Unless all representatives are to be seen it is fairer to refuse to see any representatives at all until preliminary screening has been carried out . |
| 12 | Before going into a residential or nursing home it is sensible to consider giving any valuables not in everyday use to a close relative or friend for safekeeping . |
| 13 | However , it is interesting to try to make some estimates even if we have to accept that they are , at best , only crude guidelines . |
| 14 | Therefore , it is dangerous to try to explain present-day landforms merely by the operation of present processes of erosion acting over very long periods of time . |
| 15 | Just as it is dangerous to predict the macro-scenario in anything other than the broadest terms , so it is dangerous to attempt to construct educational blueprints for the future — especially in curriculum terms . |
| 16 | But the drama is still not very exciting , and the unfocused nature of the work is likely to continue to create organisational problems . |
| 17 | NEW world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is likely to refuse to fight top contender Lennox Lewis in the first defence of his title . |
| 18 | The mother learns that if the child is placed on a pot at these particular times she is likely to avoid having dirty nappies . |
| 19 | If you are friendly , it is likely to try to bite other runners . |
| 20 | If she is arrested for anything , however trivial , during that time , she is likely to have to serve two years in prison plus whatever sentence her new offence would attract . |
| 21 | One Cabinet minister , however , is likely to have saved some money on his hotel bill to go towards his bid for next year . |
| 22 | Given that natural selection has not eradicated the disorder , despite its association with suicide , with the possibility of reduced fertility , and impaired efficiency in behaviour , it is likely to have had some value . |
| 23 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 24 | The evidence in rats that morphine 3-glucuronide may antagonise the analgesic actions of morphine is unsubstantiated and is hard to explain given that morphine 3-glucuronide has a much lower binding affinity for opioid receptors than either morphine or the active morphine metabolite , morphine 6-glucuronide . |
| 25 | There are all sorts of other ways in which it is hard to learn to use existing languages . |
| 26 | In such a climate , it is ambitious to attempt to explain scientific problems in simple terms . |
| 27 | Clearly , it is futile to try to eradicate unfair portrayals of male and female characters in texts without an equally vigorous attempt to eradicate unfair treatment of female and male pupils by teachers in their classrooms . |
| 28 | Although lack of randomisation may introduce bias , a bias relating to cancer is unlikely to have influenced either referral of patients to our clinic or choice of treatment within the clinic . |
| 29 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 30 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |