Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 2 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 3 | It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) . |
| 4 | it is widely accepted as a supreme achievement |
| 5 | He is widely accepted as a decent and honourable man . |
| 6 | The level of income at which SB is received is widely accepted as a crude and basic measure of the ‘ poverty line ’ , that point below which people may be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ . |
| 7 | Interactive spoken language is widely recognised as a powerful means of learning ; it is also obviously essential in the world outside school . |
| 8 | Abbey National , the UK 's second largest lender , is widely recognised as a major market player . |
| 9 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 10 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 11 | Linda Nicholson is a member of the London Fortepiano Trio and is widely regarded as a leading fortepiano player . |
| 12 | This phenomenon , often referred to as the ‘ ageing ’ of the population , is widely viewed as a serious problem or ‘ burden ’ . |
| 13 | The former gains a temporary respite from persistent blood loss while the ageing parasite population is eventually replaced by a vigorous young generation . |
| 14 | Also , even when modern composers do write melody , it is rarely presented in a straightforward way which can be regarded as a model . |
| 15 | Although Bain is little known outside a small circle of science historians , his inventions were myriad . |
| 16 | The most commonly used device for finding the eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix A is the power method , or one of its many variants , in which A is effectively raised to a high power . |
| 17 | And we 've got a further problem if Iraq is effectively destroyed as a functioning state . |
| 18 | Devismes 's letter of 22 June 1800 ( see above and n.20 ) included the sentence : ‘ He is [ to the Opéra ] what the heart is at the centre of the human body ’ This might be seen as hyperbole , taken in isolation , but it is wholly supported by a remarkable testimony written by the composer Jean-François Le Sueur ( 1760-1837 ) . |
| 19 | For Craigendarroch is wholly owned by a major public company , Cannon Street Investments P.L.C. |
| 20 | The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style . |
| 21 | Fashion photography is vastly overrated as a creative medium . |
| 22 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 23 | This is all bundled into a 208-pin CLCC package which , in single chip applications will run on 3W ; 5W is needed to drive large external memory systems . |
| 24 | This is all bundled into a 208-pin CLCC package which , in single chip applications will run on 3W ; 5W is needed to drive large external memory systems . |
| 25 | And it is all based on a true story . ’ |
| 26 | This is all handled by a bolted on simple image editor and capture program called Inset . |
| 27 | Sometimes it is all held in a single incident . |
| 28 | He said that the difficulty with the bubbles not joining up could be avoided if the bubbles were so big that our region of the universe is all contained inside a single bubble . |
| 29 | Instead they are to put on , as if it were a suit of new clothes , the new humanity that Is brought to them in Christ and is constantly renewed by a deepening knowledge of Christ , into the Creator 's original image in man , a likeness to God himself : hence the ‘ compassion , kindness , lowliness , meekness , patience , forbearance ’ , love , peace and gratitude of which he goes onto speak ( Col. 3:1,5–16 ) . |
| 30 | Similarly , shyness is constantly invoked as a legitimate reason for failure to do something . |