Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangers of leaving this solely to the market and enthusiast interests are obvious and potentially serious , to the extent that availability is most likely to guide research effort and energy . |
| 2 | It is rarely necessary to obtain government consent before selling a business to a non-UK purchaser . |
| 3 | The time is long overdue to free part time training from such draconian requirements . |
| 4 | Lastly , as part of general health care , it is extremely important to discourage cigarette smoking . |
| 5 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 6 | A microlight engine is less likely to suffer cylinder damage through thermal shock than the engine of a conventional aircraft which is allowed to tick over and cool down too quickly on the descent , but extremes are best avoided . |
| 7 | The method is least satisfactory in health resorts , coastal ports , London etc. , and it is obviously necessary to avoid peak holiday times and advisable to choose a weekend . |
| 8 | It is generally best to leave valve servicing and replacement to a professional plumber . |
| 9 | Careful design is thus necessary to restrict laser action to a single mode . |
| 10 | Myrdal found that Southern whites , defending discrimination , picked their words with care , showing an indirectness in the way they talked about blacks : ‘ When talking about the Negro problem , everybody — not only the intellectual liberals — is thus anxious to locate race prejudice outside himself ’ ( 1944 : 37 ) . |
| 11 | A low serum ferritin or low serum iron with raised total iron binding capacity is usually sufficient to confirm iron deficiency . |
| 12 | As well as pointing out biases and gaps in the way these ideas have been applied , I will be trying to demonstrate the more general point that it is always problematic to treat language use as a direct reflection of social identity . |
| 13 | What we ought to be aiming for is more localised revolved estate management . |
| 14 | Since it is more expensive to install pollution control devices in existing installations than in new ones , this strategy often leads in practice to the specification of different requirements for new and existing units . |
| 15 | On tree-lined courses , it is more difficult to judge wind strength and direction . |
| 16 | In general , it is more difficult to trace adoption breakdown than foster home breakdown , as the families concerned will not necessarily return to the agencies involved in the original placement . |
| 17 | It is more common to find bit significance in sub.operation fields . |
| 18 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 19 | The high sensitivities obtained in some centres would suggest that it is technically feasible to obtain tissue confirmation by cytology in all patients with hilar strictures . |
| 20 | These work well , but it is probably better to hire drain clearing equipment rather than buying it — so your choice will depend very much on what the local hire shop has available . |
| 21 | On balance , it is probably safer to use AJR procedure if there is doubt about whether one 's case is a public law case or not . |
| 22 | The enhanced product is also first to join industry standard application programming interfaces ( XTI and TIRC ) with TCP/IP on the MS-DOS/Windows platform . |
| 23 | Presumably it is also possible to acquire locus standi to bring a claim by means of an assignment , subject to the usual limitations on the assignment of bare causes of action . |
| 24 | It is also difficult to obtain insurance cover in substantial amounts to cover this type of liability . |
| 25 | Although the usual coefficient of determination or scaled deviance can be used to indicate the global fit of any specified model , it is also important to examine model performance when estimating populations over areal units other than the wards from which the models were derived . |
| 26 | Although most research in settlement geography has been directed at settlement systems , or the distribution of villages , it is also important to consider village development or planning at the micro-scale of design or general layout . |
| 27 | In some cases it is also hard to measure scheme cost , eg where aid takes the form of tax concessions . |
| 28 | It is as natural to find conflict present in the work environment as it is in the family , marriage , or any other human context . |
| 29 | Plants now known only in cultivation but whose ancestry is fairly clear include sugar cane and rice and bananas , which are sterile triploids , many of those involving hybridity between a rain-forest species , Musa acuminata and M. halbisiana of drier forests . |
| 30 | Although the Yerkes-Dodson law provides an additional prediction which can be tested , it suffers firstly from the problem that it is often impossible to define task difficulty a priori and secondly that even when this is done successfully it is very hard to be sure that task difficulty does not itself affect arousal . |