Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all types of non-meanings regardless of their internal constitution or ontological status . |
| 2 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 3 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 4 | It is extremely easy to exceed these bounds when specifying a program , and so it is essential that a programmer experienced in the particular system or systems to be used is involved in the initial design discussions . |
| 5 | The ebony itself is extremely difficult to find these days , and I ended up buying 10 turning blanks , 30x2x2in ; each just enough to get a leg out of ! |
| 6 | When we pass to the treatment of style as representation we come to an approach to literature which is less likely to make such claims to scientific status ; for rather than defining style in purely linguistic terms , its purpose is to relate it to interpretations of literary content , and these must inevitably be somewhat approximative . |
| 7 | It is possible to make assumptions about the inter-relationships between the data , but it is obviously better to base these assumptions on thorough analysis . |
| 8 | Now , with the advent of client-server and departmental computing , it is much harder to generate such economies of scale . |
| 9 | With care it is generally possible to express most ideas clearly and accurately ; however , on occasions it may be necessary to adopt particular language or legal formulae in order to express an idea accurately . |
| 10 | As suggested by Szekeres ( 1972 ) , it is therefore possible to use these as coordinates in region IV , although care has to be taken at the boundaries and it is not possible to extend these coordinates into the prior regions II and III . |
| 11 | The rates of both fatal and other accidents have fluctuated over the years and it is not possible to reach any conclusions concerning long-term trends in socio-economic differences . |
| 12 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 13 | Note , it is not possible to read some modules and enter others at the same time . |
| 14 | Although it is not necessary to mark each package in the list , all endorsement marks given must be the same as it is not possible to accept some packages and reject others at the same time . |
| 15 | It is not possible to circumvent these provisions by one company receiving a payment from the trustees and another company associated with the same within TA 1988 , s416 making a loan or other capital payment to the settlor ( s678(4) ) . |
| 16 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether or not the Director of the Serious Fraud Office , in employing her powers under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 in relation to a person under investigation who has been charged with an offence , is obliged by any principle of law , before asking any question or seeking any information in relation to that offence , to inform that person that he is not obliged to answer such questions , or provide such information , and , if so , by what principle of law . |
| 18 | Depending on the software , further overflow records may take no additional time — if it is not necessary to follow all chains — or the average time per overflow record may be nR/2 , where there are n overflow records per track and every overflow chain has to be followed during a record search . |
| 19 | It is not difficult to give many examples of societies where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where the status of women is comparatively low . |
| 20 | Further , if a shopper with some perverted sense of humour , intending only to create confusion and nothing more both for the supermarket and for other shoppers , switches labels , I do not think that that act of label switching alone is without more an appropriation , though it is not difficult to envisage some cases of dishonest label switching which could be . |
| 21 | ‘ Kylie is not afraid to explore all styles . |
| 22 | In the circumstances , this approach would seem appropriate , but it is not likely to satisfy those critics of the Cadbury report who want to see compliance firmly enforced . |
| 23 | Equipment under maintenance is not likely to present any problems , provided that these are correctly diagnosed . |
| 24 | Since this would require a constitutional change it is not likely to recruit many supporters , but the unions have some powerful government supporters on their side . |
| 25 | Serialism itself is normally certain to achieve these objectives . |
| 26 | The manufacturers of these products recognise this suggesting it is nevertheless possible to reduce such odours to an acceptable level without neutralising them completely . |
| 27 | Whatever the politics of decision-making within the household , male dominated , elder-dominated , or more egalitarian , it is usually necessary to pursue these enquiries first . |
| 28 | Note that heat will travel along the fitting , so it is usually best to make both ends at the same time — otherwise soldering the second may unsolder the first , unless it is covered with a damp cloth . |
| 29 | Fortunately it is usually easy to spot such intruders . |
| 30 | However , at eight miles , the stretch between the M11 and the A12 is also the second-longest section on the M25 without a junction and so is statistically likely to have many delays . |