Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , it really is strange to hear about you all again . |
| 2 | Old : Take the steep path leading up through a re-plantation scheme until it is possible to exit from its left-hand top corner to gain steep scree . |
| 3 | She now runs the Darlington branch of the National Epilepsy Society and to help parents and teachers recognise the symptoms she had she has a number of books and videos which she is willing to lend to anyone interested . |
| 4 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 5 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 6 | When we feel lack of status it is easy to cling to our hard luck stories about how totally powerless we are to change the things we 'd like to change . |
| 7 | In this way the diet is easy to adjust to your own requirements . |
| 8 | All this is supposed to contrast with his own offering , which appears to be introduced with the words " " I speke in prose " " ( II : 96 ) although in fact his tale of a noble woman and wife , Custance ( Constance ) , is told in rhyme-royal stanzas . |
| 9 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The credit grantor not only requires confirmation of the existing loan commitments of a business prospect ; he also needs details of previous repayment patterns in order to assess how a commercial borrower is likely to cope with his own repayment structure . ’ |
| 11 | What you need to do , in using the expression , is to anticipate what effect its use is likely to have on your probable readers — and act accordingly . |
| 12 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 13 | Det Chief Supt Colin Port , head of Warwickshire CID , said : ‘ It is hard to think of anyone less of a match for these brutal people . ’ |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 15 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure which one is better to present to you first . |
| 17 | The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all . |
| 18 | Since Athena ( Susan Fleetwood ) is reluctant to part with her symbolic owl , her trademark of wisdom , Hephaestus ( Pat Roach ) constructs an exact mechanical replica . |
| 19 | If a situation occurs where the Policyholder is unable to continue with his usual profession or occupation , but is now working in a sedentary position , a claim may be made under item 5 . |
| 20 | Weekly Benefit would be payable under item 5 as the Policyholder is unable to continue with his disclosed employment . |
| 21 | A declaration of anti-racist principle is made , but is unable to stand on its own : it is quickly followed by a neutralizing qualification , which allows the racial themes to enter the conversation under the protection of an apparently anti-racist banner ( see Billig , 1982 , for a discussion of this ‘ two-sided ’ form of discourse ) . |
| 22 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 23 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 24 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 25 | He sees the business class in particular as exercising a crucial role in the economy , and he argues that it is able to draw upon its social contacts with a wider establishment to try to ensure that its interests are not fundamentally damaged . |
| 26 | In continuing to address the potential conflict between conservation and access , the Trust is able to draw upon its considerable management experience . |
| 27 | As a result , the copier ( the student ) becomes aware of the discriminative cues and so he is able to act as his own critic , thus advancing his learning with his own efforts , without further need of a teacher or critic . |
| 28 | Smith does n't want to be out of the selectors ' minds at the start of the tour because he is desperate to improve on his overseas record for England . |
| 29 | On close examination of the latter 's findings , in fact , it is difficult to say on what precise evidence they base their view , that ‘ this question of [ specialist-generic ] labour division ’ ( p. 215 ) is without either impact or ( by implication ) interest . |
| 30 | There may be variations in the schemes operated locally , so it is best to check with your local gas or electricity showroom . |