Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 2 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 4 | But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company . |
| 5 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 6 | It is widely accepted that this system ‘ has nothing to teach us ’ . |
| 7 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 8 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 9 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 10 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
| 11 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 12 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 13 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 14 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 15 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 16 | But it is widely expected that further heads will have to roll if the discredited Communist Party is to retrieve the situation . |
| 17 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 18 | More usually it is loosely defined as any increase in GDP , even when that is within the existing production frontier . |
| 19 | It is that in a conditional sale agreement the passing of property to the buyer is expressly postponed until some condition ( usually all the instalments being paid ) is fulfilled . |
| 20 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 21 | If a machine is effectively cleaned and disinfected service can be extended to three day intervals providing there are no extreme environmental or siting factors . |
| 22 | By the end of this pre-legislative stage the main content of the bill is effectively settled although further negotiations between the various interested parties continue throughout the passage through Parliament . |
| 23 | For this the sore is gently scraped and any fluid that exudes can then be looked at under the microscope . |
| 24 | However , that disc distress is greatly increased when these workers find that their ex-bosses opens another business with another name , just over the road or in the same premises . |
| 25 | The representation of the interests of a particular group is greatly clarified if that group is also able to construct an antithetical image ( for the details of this argument see Miller 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Because the Treasury wants to have the final say on all public spending , however financed , each year 's chunk of ERDF cash is merely regarded as one source of finance for the total that authorities are permitted to spend each year . |
| 27 | So often the strength and meaning of a partnership is only revealed when one person is gravely ill or dies . |
| 28 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 29 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 30 | If the ion is attached through one oxygen , so that its symmetry is reduced from T d to C 3 ν , splits into two components ( a 1 and e ) , while if the ion is attached to one or more metal atoms through two of its oxygens the degeneracy is entirely removed and three components of ν 3 ( a 1 , b 1 and b 2 ) appear , as well as ν 1 . |