Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 2 | AWHITEHALL investigation has been launched into allegations that the Government is secretly flouting European Community law by awarding contracts worth millions of pounds to British companies on an exclusive basis in advance of a privatisation sale next summer . |
| 3 | But the most important factor is that the team is properly funded this time . ’ |
| 4 | It is widely accepted that City regulation is too fragmented to meet the challenges of insider-dealing and market manipulation . |
| 5 | In this era , it is widely accepted that collectivism was an ideal cultural trait which could be harnessed to the growth of aggressive nationalism . |
| 6 | It is widely accepted that fibrin degradation products released after the action of plasmin on fibrin contribute to the development of inflammatory changes in several organs by increasing the permeability of the vasculature to protein . |
| 7 | It is widely accepted that infection is the primary cause of Whipple 's disease , but the importance of an associated immune deficiency in starting or promoting persistence of the infection is less clear . |
| 8 | It is widely recognised that air pollution due to human activity in populated areas and in the vicinity of isolated sources has become one of the significant environmental health problems of our time . |
| 9 | It is widely believed that penicillin , a substance obtained from moulds of the family called Penicillium , was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at St. Mary 's Hospital in London . |
| 10 | It is widely anticipated that LMS will lead to more job losses . |
| 11 | As long as the definition of an ‘ acceptable ’ style is widely interpreted such an approach is a valid one . |
| 12 | BOSNIA-Hercegovina , with its potent ethnic mix and history of savage internecine warfare , is widely considered one of the most unstable and volatile regions in the Balkans and in Europe , writes Michael Montgomery . |
| 13 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |
| 14 | Everett Fahy is fine while on the trail of the Velasquez , but is eventually discredited due to his second thoughts about the deaccessioning of an important Henri Rousseau . |
| 15 | The idea is eventually to build four or five of the airships a year , costing £3.5 million each . |
| 16 | The sinner is thereby declared righteous , not because he or she was innocent of the charges brought against them , but because of the righteousness which belongs to Christ and is bestowed on them . |
| 17 | Yet the basis for the identification of ‘ topic ’ is rarely made explicit . |
| 18 | This perspective puts mathematics educators in a very comfortable position , until we recognise that it is not uncontentious and , in any case , is rarely made explicit to children , which would involve them in a detailed consideration of how mathematics has developed and the relations between abstract mathematics and reality . |
| 19 | When dates for particular artefact-types are given it is rarely made clear whether that date is one of manufacture of the artefacts , its period of use or the context in which it was found . |
| 20 | While there is no regulation that specifically excludes due diligence work on a listed company , in practice it is rarely undertaken due to the rules on equality of information to be given not only to all shareholders but also to offerors or bona fide potential offerors . |
| 21 | At every stoppage in the senior game the referee is applauded or jeered depending on which arm he raises to award the put-in , and he is rarely considered correct by everyone . |
| 22 | In developing countries , where family planning is rarely practised prior to birth of the first child , the timing of first union bears directly upon fertility patterns , including the age at which the woman gives birth to her first child , often also the nature and pattern of subsequent reproductive events , as well as completed family size . |
| 23 | We have the gallery still running reasonably well but it is one man ten hours a week his experience is badly limited this marvellous free resource is no longer being called for . . |
| 24 | After he and Frank Williams had confirmed the sport 's worst kept secret , the 30-year-old Londoner said : ‘ Both my sisters are going to be at home this Christmas and I 've got a job — so I guess I 'm buying the drinks . |
| 25 | Where the auction is expressly advertised subject to a reserve price , s57(6) expressly preserves the seller 's right not to sell below the reserve price . |
| 26 | In so far as the levels of government expenditure are fixed by general political considerations , if one group is expressly given favourable tax treatment the value of tax revenue lost is a cost that must be financed by other tax payers . |
| 27 | Joshua wondered whether the sight , uninvited , of so tweedy a magistrate at one 's rarely opened front door was such as to give confidence to the rural labouring classes . |
| 28 | It is little surprise that legend and lore should have built up around it . |
| 29 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 30 | Even in Oxford , one of the region 's most cycle friendly cities , cyclists are getting more and more frustrated with the dangers posed by traffic and pollution . |