Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [subord] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the analogy itself is rather stretched since many local government services , particularly in education and welfare , unlike those delivered by central government ( for example , through social security ) , have always been based on discretion and variation between individuals and not on standardization in accordance with clearly identified rules . |
| 2 | Many elements of the Exchequer transactions total can be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy by the Bank of England on a day-to-day basis : the impact of foreign exchange transactions passing through the EEA is generally known since most such transactions are settled two days later ; gilts transactions are generally settled on the next business day ; and various government sources give information on both government expenditure and expected tax receipts . |
| 3 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 4 | Only a three-yard stretch of the theatre has been unearthed , and it is not known whether any more will be excavated . |
| 5 | Few of these have been specifically identified and it is not known whether any single factor is essential for the development of Crohn 's disease . |
| 6 | Oxyradical dependent photoemission of granulocytes stimulated by platelet activating factor has been detected in vivo in rat mesenteric microvascular beds , but it is not known if these reactive oxygen species are generated in vivo in the colonic mucosa because phagocytes may be activated during isolation procedures used in in vitro studies . |
| 7 | Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues . |
| 8 | This blurring of disciplinary frontiers is further encouraged when those few social anthropologists who can count , or have convenient access to mathematical aids , follow sociologists in succumbing to the lure of statistics and the computer . |
| 9 | The purpose is clearly to determine whether any other forms of intervention would be in the child 's best interests . |
| 10 | Still , he was ‘ absolutely very aware ’ that ‘ bisexual ’ is often taken as some strange pop-code for ‘ gay ’ and is keen to point out that , as it happens , he is indeed bisexual . |
| 11 | Fiction is heavily over-represented whilst many other domains are heavily under-represented . |