Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee 's punished . |
| 2 | However , the fact is that for approaching half a century British cities have been publicly regulated by a system designed to guide , shape and control the form and appearance of the urban environment . |
| 3 | Now it might be argued that ontologically the decisive factor is that on opening his eyes he found again two distinct individuals . |
| 4 | The main division is that between receiving and the rest of the sub-section : per Lord Bridge in Bloxham . |
| 5 | To continue the analogy however , one danger of a cuckoo in a nest is that before flying it may permanently displace other promising chicks which could be particularly concerned with processes ( chapter 5 ) and man ( 6 ) and such themes are not readily accommodated in an earth science , geoscience or environmental science structure . |
| 6 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 7 | One of the uses of understanding how this transform of the city and savage theme continues in Eliot 's work is that in seeing how this primitive countryside ( like the animistic rose-garden ) connects with London 's metropolitan world , it becomes apparent that there is a political aspect to the Four Quartets . |
| 8 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |
| 9 | Therefore , the policy suggestion that arises from theory is that in seeking to determine the effects of monopolisation it is necessary to weigh carefully the costs against the benefits , to examine the trade-off of the one against the other . |
| 10 | The main argument for the legitimacy of any authority is that in subjecting himself to it a person is more likely to act successfully for the reasons which apply to him than if he does not subject himself to its authority . |
| 11 | For now , the point I wish to make is that in regard to the notional/functional syllabus , although there is a change in the way of describing the content units for language teaching , this change tends to be assimilated into traditional and well-established ways of thinking about the syllabus as a pedagogic construct . |
| 12 | The tragic thing is that in reacting against such unhelpful literalism too many of us assume that the war is not real . |
| 13 | What all this amounts to , among other things , is that in translating pronouns from English to , say , French , Italian , Greek , Spanish , Russian , German , or Bahasa Indonesia , decisions may have to be made along such dimensions as gender , degree of intimacy between participants , or whether reference includes or excludes the addressee . |
| 14 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 15 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 16 | The problem with this is that in doing so you are taking a risk : perhaps you are misunderstanding what you read , and so your notes become an incorrect version of what was said . |
| 17 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 18 | The reason being given is that in retaining the project for itself , Silicon Graphics ' goal of portraying the MIPS architecture as vendor-neutral would be compromised . |
| 19 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 20 | A concern is that in identifying a company 's financial vulnerability , a collapse that might otherwise have been avoided will be precipitated . |
| 21 | The danger is that in responding without thought to this ephemeral demand the essential ingredient which creates the very tourist experience — the landscape , both natural and man-made — will be permanently disfigured . |
| 22 | The moral of this passage is that in rejecting criticism you work up from gentle fun-poking and comment , through rebuke before calling your critic a damned liar . |
| 23 | What must be recognized is that in approaching different collections , different users at different periods in time will place varying requirements on a scheme , both in terms of the subjects that should be included and also in terms of the relationships that need to be shown . |
| 24 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 25 | One possibility is that in excluding nursing home residents we left out an especially vulnerable group of elderly people who were more likely to die than their counterparts in the community . |
| 26 | The main point is that in assessing the probability of h given e we do not question e ; we assume temporarily that e is certain , and we ignore the chance of e not being true . |
| 27 | The essence of a sale by description is that in deciding to buy the buyer placed some ( but not necessarily exclusive ) reliance upon the description . |
| 28 | A possible basis for the decision , it is suggested , is that in instructing the appellants to leave the spot outside the premises , the police were acting to prevent an offence as they have a duty to do , namely to require the appellant to stop obstructing the highway . |
| 29 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 30 | The central point is that by controlling the moving pictures of dissent , governments believe that they can not only minimize the dissent itself but also completely remove the major source of criticism . |