Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Except in the more extreme cases mentioned there is little or no significance in them .
2 Simply to live in the world performing one 's proper biological and mental functions , eating , engaging in physically healthy activities , appreciating the beauties of nature and of art , trying to understand the way things work , developing one 's skills is joyous and an end in itself .
3 The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers .
4 It is known that approximately 30% of benign tumours will become ‘ invasive ’ and therefore it is possible that an increase in protein synthesis , which would be needed for further growth , might herald the development of the malignant phenotype and invasion by the tumour cells .
5 It is possible that the increase in the value of the company was justified , but it is also possible to understand accusations that this represented yet another privatised company sold at less than its real value .
6 The protein encoded by the gene is one of the G proteins ( guanine nucleotide binding proteins , see Steel , May 8 , p 1187 ) and may help to control the passage of potassium ions through membrane channels ; it is possible that the defect in LQTS lies in signal transduction at the level of these proteins .
7 Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report .
8 Nevertheless it is doubtful whether the vegetation in which it occurs is sufficiently well-developed that it could be identified with the community described in the NVC .
9 At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland .
10 It is clear that the decision in Francovich does no more than usher in the doctrine of state liability for failure to legislate and that the full impact of the doctrine remains to be established .
11 For my part , I think it is clear that the court in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 did decide what Mr. Douglas Hurd understood it decided , namely , that in setting the tariff for prisoners serving discretionary life sentences , the Secretary of State is obliged to adopt the judicial view .
12 In such actions , it is clear that the analysis in the first paragraph holds good , whoever the parties actually are .
13 In conclusion , it is clear that the market in the UK is maturing and the executive search product is starting to come to age .
14 An inspector may revise the accounting period to which an extended time limit assessment applies where it is clear that the period in question is a point of contention with the taxpayer .
15 Since autonomous expenditure helps determine the position ( intercept ) of the curve ( equation 10–35 ) , it is clear that an increase in government spending will shift the curve to the right .
16 If you like styling products , we recommend using a gel when your hair is wet because the moisture in your hair will dilute it .
17 Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it .
18 It is interesting that the rise in chronic disease parallels the rise in the chemicalization of our food .
19 It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent .
20 ‘ It is noticeable that the rise in seasonally-adjusted unemployment in Scotland last month was the lowest since March .
21 However , if a system is such that an error in the software alone could cause a fault , then care must be taken to ensure that the software is to the standard required by the application .
22 He/ she is conscious that the way in which Jesus is presented is crucial .
23 It is likely that a procedure in which search statements were split into portions which match subject heading subfields as well as into ( weak-stemmed ) words would be something of an improvement .
24 So it is likely that a family in which a mother or father has to bring up children single-handed will think of itself and be treated by others , as a little cluster of deviants from the marital norm .
25 In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue .
26 As the severity of histological changes in the pancreas in response to caerulein such as the vacuolisation of acinar cells and the rise in plasma amylase concentrations were already significant at the third hour of infusion , it is obvious that the decline in the exocrine secretory activity might be attributed to the damage of acinar cells .
27 It is natural that the change in direction from upswing to downswing , plus the swing- weight of the clubhead , will automatically cock your wrists .
28 The version in figure 9.4 is smoother than the version in figure 9.3 , and each is smoother than the raw data plotted in figure 9.2 .
29 If the amount passes the test of s 11(4) , then that amount is all that the party in breach can reasonably be expected to pay , however much loss the other party suffers , and even for total failure to perform caused by wilful default .
30 What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ?
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