Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all shoplifting is dishonest according to current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 2 | There is little to do to container-grown herbs during their growth any more than there is to their open-ground counterparts . |
| 3 | The only music which is really non-tonal is that based on chromatic clusters of semitones ( or even smaller intervals ) , where no single tone can predominate . |
| 4 | As noted above , one of the most influential schools of macro thought in recent years is that associated with rational expectations , which involves actors internalizing all available information in a model to anticipate now the consequences of , say , increasing the money supply . |
| 5 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 6 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 7 | Contrary to approaches influenced by Lacan , there seems little reason to suppose that the unconscious is structured largely in relation to language or some other grammatical form , since in the intellectual representation of the external world it is possible to account for symbolic processes through a variety of other cognitive mechanisms ( e.g. Sperber 1975 ; 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 9 | These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples . |
| 10 | Not all solicitors work in private practice of course , and it is possible to train in other areas such as local and central government and in commerce and industry . |
| 11 | In addition to the Japanese environment , it is possible to switch to other languages such as Korean and Chinese , with instantaneous conversion of the desktop language , and without rebooting , in much the same way as the Macintosh 's System 7 WorldScript . |
| 12 | According to Perrin ( 1988 ) it is possible to budget by subjective costs ( such as staff , supplies and equipment ) , functions ( such as nursing , catering and estates ) , specialties ( such as neurology , geriatrics and general surgery ) , or by the units that comprise the district . |
| 13 | However , it is possible to think of other things to add in such as ‘ one shake of the elbow ’ but it is a matter of choice . |
| 14 | Over a two-day residential course , it is possible to start with recent trends in the workplace , go on to analyse a variety of management styles and approaches , consider strategies , and then develop what the course manual describes as ‘ a sense of solidarity and optimism in ‘ Hard Times ’ ' . |
| 15 | Thus it is possible to speak of cheerful colours and melancholy sounds ( Gombrich , 1963 ) or of the mood of an entire painting or piece of music . |
| 16 | It is a popular dish , and tunny steak ( bifes de atum ) is tasty served with local onions . |
| 17 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 18 | So strong is traditional archaeology 's faith in the uniqueness of cultural forms and the rarity of innovations that it is prepared to go to inordinate lengths in the quest for similarities in design and style . |
| 19 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 20 | But if such evidence is available , then it is superfluous to appeal to differential relations . |
| 21 | These distinctions are especially important since the development is easier to illustrate in broad terms than to measure precisely . |
| 22 | I 'm rapidly coming to the opinion that one large tough fish is easier to monitor in less-than-perfect conditions such as a new tank than a shoal of small stuff . |
| 23 | Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge . |
| 24 | Does this increase in variation mean that we can speak of a specifically ‘ local ’ politics , and if so is this based around local issues and is it generated through local processes ? |
| 25 | Lawyers have not usually been slow in their individual involvement with causes and with legal reform , but questions have arisen over the extent to which it is proper to intervene in socio-legal problems as part of a professional service . |
| 26 | All this material he gets , whenever possible , at first hand , or at any rate from those to whom he is prone to refer in unguarded moments as ‘ reliable informants ’ . |
| 27 | Hodder ( 1986 ) has showed that it is dangerous to rely upon casual observations of that sort . |
| 28 | One view which can be taken in the light of this decision of the House of Lords is that it is unsafe to rely upon Junior Books as establishing any general principle of liability , a view which accords with the recent decisions of the House of Lords in Caparo v. Dickman and Murphy v. Brentwood DC . |
| 29 | Poulantzas himself is content to rely on counterfactual arguments in support of certain relations , but I shall suggest that these are less conclusive than he supposes . |
| 30 | It is important to number all of the items in the minutes so that it is easy to refer to particular items at a later date . |