Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise . |
| 2 | There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 4 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 5 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 6 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 7 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 8 | When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to . |
| 9 | By comparing the frequency of fluent restorations in different conditions , it is possible to see whether preceding context affects the recognition point of a word . |
| 10 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 11 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 12 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 13 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 14 | Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished . |
| 15 | Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this . |
| 16 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 17 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways . |
| 19 | Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait . |
| 20 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
| 21 | Second the behavioural view of such behaviour was introduced along with the concept that in the context of intervention it is profitable to consider that all behaviour is learned . |
| 22 | However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times . |
| 23 | Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with . |
| 24 | This immediately puts their organisation in a good light and the journalist is disposed to feel that this outfit may be a useful source of information in the future . |
| 25 | It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change . |
| 26 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 27 | There is some doubt whether this section is in any event applicable in the case of composite rate tax , which was the tax demanded of Woolwich in the present case . |
| 28 | Obviously a well-structured program is easier to document as each subroutine should contain a logical element of the program , rather than the jumbled interconnected logic of an unstructured program . |
| 29 | Although the crop is put green into the clamp , it does not follow that good silage is easier to make than good hay . |
| 30 | A diagram is easier to follow than written instructions . |