Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having seen the Shias in the refugee camps in south Iran and in south-east Iraq , I can understand at last how it is possible to ignore such appalling things . |
| 2 | It is necessary to distinguish between gradual and abrupt , minor and major , peaceful and violent political changes ; and so far as is possible to connect these diverse phenomena with their causes or conditions . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , we have already seen that it is possible to see some total societies as externalizations of paranoia ; not merely as collective projections ( which may also be present ) , but as realizations of paranoid processes within the architecture of the state . |
| 4 | From his approach it is possible to link some eigh-teenth-century forms of recreation to the revised view of nineteenth-century forms recently presented by Dr Cunningham with its greater emphasis on commercial provision for working-class tastes . |
| 5 | This means that it is possible to kill many more rabbits in one field at any one time with a rifle than can ever be accomplished with a shotgun . |
| 6 | We should ask , rather , what kinds of predicates there are and whether it is possible to obliterate such logical differences as do exist between them . |
| 7 | Even though the data derived from the Detailed Spectrum Investigation does not constitute a detailed analysis of the European situation , it is possible to draw some general conclusions . |
| 8 | It is possible to modify these various statements of the no-arbitrage condition to allow for continuous compounding . |
| 9 | However , there is no practical way in which it is possible to avoid all such misunderstandings and conflict . |
| 10 | It is possible to discern some international trends in economic policy . |
| 11 | It is possible to distinguish many different forms of giving in the field of welfare . |
| 12 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 13 | By collecting the progeny of single 8-cell blastomeres in vitro it is possible to separate these two subpopulations since the pairs of 16-cell blastomeres are generally of different sizes and in most cases the larger cell is polar ( presumptive trophectoderm , TE ) and the smaller cell is apolar ( presumptive inner cell mass , ICM ) ( 26 , and Section 4.1 ) . |
| 14 | However , it is possible to make some general comments about the ways in which descriptions of a child 's language difficulties can contribute to planning intervention . |
| 15 | So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications . |
| 16 | It is possible to add several other arguments to the list of those which focus upon the realisation of group ( a ) ( on page 16 ) National Curriculum aims . |
| 17 | On a technical basis it is possible to exclude those Continental examples which are not made in the same tradition as the English ones . |
| 18 | It is now time to identify these issues more clearly and see whether it is possible to integrate these different perspectives . |
| 19 | Given the resources available to men ( 99 percent of the world 's resources ) and the few available to women , and given the institution of male power in every dimension of the education system — grounded deep in the structures , the language and the social context of every exchange — it is unrealistic to imagine that individual women , men of good will , or students , however energetic , resourceful and determined , can change things single handed . |
| 20 | Because of the scale of the need , the limitations of staff and resources and the pressure of other work it is unrealistic to expect that local authorities could provide a comprehensive training programme immediately . |
| 21 | To pay for his Olympics , Simon is prepared to do any odd jobs . |
| 22 | Clause 1.2 is not acceptable as it is inadvisable to agree any unreasonable fetters on the tenant 's right to assign the benefit of the agreement . |
| 23 | There is no time limit on complaints , so Sylvia Peters is free to settle some old scores . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it is wrong to consider that new concepts such as open systems , client-server or object technology will necessarily ‘ provide the flexibility , integration and freedom that modern businesses demand … |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that certain problems which have been solved by technological improvements reappear as the technology continues to evolve . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that detailed cross-tabulations of the main survey data ( not included in Appendix 1 ) showed that in general people who consider credit to be ‘ occasionally necessary ’ ( rather than either convenient or sensible , or never a good thing ) were more likely to say that any of the types would be difficult to arrange . |
| 27 | Without some historic realignment on the left , it is impossible to see any serious moves in this direction being made in the next five years . |
| 28 | Just as the provision of work is not generally regarded by health and social service staff as their responsibility , so too it is easy to ignore those social aspects of life which mentally robust people organize so effectively for themselves . |
| 29 | It is easy to recognize such gaping valves in fossils , and there are accompanying changes on the internal structure of the shell which are associated with species with long siphons . |
| 30 | It is instructive to note that relative newcomers to the dinosaur scene , the mosasaurs ( the violent giant aquatic lizards referred to in Chapter 3 , who appeared in the last 25 million years of the Cretaceous ) , showed evidence of mammalian-like illnesses . |