Example sentences of "[conj] is [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problems seem to come when the foreground application program has control over the keyboard or is using large chunks of memory to mimic the screen . |
| 2 | Each of these three is an ordinary belief , well-founded or not , that one thing caused or is causing another . |
| 3 | It ends on the first closing date or , if later , the date when the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances or lapses . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) The offeror should ensure that the terms of its banking facilities are compatible with the terms of the offer and the requirements of the Code ( in particular that there is an unconditional commitment to provide the cash resources for the consideration payable if the offer becomes or is declared unconditional ) . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) If a cash underwritten alternative or a rights issue is being used to finance the bid , the underwriting agreement should be in place before the announcement is made and the terms of the agreement should ensure that there is a guaranteed commitment to provide the necessary funds if the offer becomes or is declared unconditional . |
| 6 | If your employee is paid varying weekly amounts , or is paid monthly , you will need to calculate the average weekly earnings . |
| 7 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 8 | There they slew many of the Welsh ; and some in flight they drove into the wood that is called Andred Sley . |
| 9 | If the church that is teaching these standards is declining in public standing , then it is not surprising that there is a moral decline . ’ |
| 10 | That is certainly part of the money that is made available as a result of the far-sighted decision of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 11 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 12 | The one dissenting voice that is made explicit to us is the Reeve 's : As has been noted , the Reeve 's Tale is often read as a much darker piece than the Miller 's Tale , and such readings are usually rooted in the reading of the Reeve 's character : a character who may be presented as corrupt , as well as frightening , in his General Prologue portrait . |
| 13 | The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone treaty impliedly modifies the Vienna Convention provisions on treaties and third parties by establishing its own regime , a course that is made necessary by the framing of so many of the provisions of the Vienna Convention in terms applicable only to parties . |
| 14 | Pardo , the first civilian to hold the post for 35 years , stated that his appointment implied " a political handling and responsibility in the Defence Ministry " and was the result of " an important political change that is made evident in the new constitution " . |
| 15 | The 1972 reform strengthened the local professional bureaucracy and a bureaucracy that is made stronger is unlikely to resist any opportunity to grow . |
| 16 | A very good drawing package and one that is getting better all the time . |
| 17 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 18 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |
| 19 | At separate talks with regional and district leaders , he will hear both sides of an argument that is causing deep divisions in the area . |
| 20 | I seek your guidance about a matter on today 's Order Paper that is causing some confusion . |
| 21 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |
| 22 | He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . |
| 23 | Baden is undergoing the same transformation that is revitalising southern France . |
| 24 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 25 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 26 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 27 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 28 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 29 | A church that is declared redundant enters the so-called ‘ Waiting period ’ . |
| 30 | In the majority of cases it is something that is given free of charge . |