Example sentences of "[pron] is [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there is evidence to support some of Peckham 's accusations , especially over appropriations , they were made when Roger was already a sick man in decline : when he died in 1295 he was described as of great age . |
| 2 | Sons and daughters of Caribbean and , to a lesser extent , African migrants of the post-war period , did have to face racialism and there is evidence to support this ( for instance , Daniel , 1968 ; Patterson , 1969 ) . |
| 3 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 4 | Quine 's response to someone who believes that there is evidence to warrant this extreme measure is that the sceptic is ‘ overreacting ’ , manifesting bizarre or deviant patterns of entrenchment of beliefs , different standards of plausibility and evidence . |
| 5 | And until there is evidence to prove any of these claims it is best to try to make your own judgement of whether a method works or does not work with your learners . |
| 6 | In progressive fibrosis there is evidence to indicate that synthetic functions of the liver are impaired proportionately to the degree of capillarisation , that is , to the accumulation of interstitial collagens within the space of Disse . |
| 7 | The intensification of capitalist farming his not meant the disintegration of the peasantry , for there is evidence to show increasing numbers of peasant farmers in many regions . |
| 8 | What is interesting is whether the women were there ready to work because they were marginal to the existing structure and were n't being allowed into the existing structure or , and I think there is evidence to show this , because they are actually more interested in being flexible , innovative and creative than in a tidy career track — that they are prepared to go nut and take chances . |
| 9 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
| 10 | There is determination to maintain strong links with other countries through a thriving International Office and as a result it plays a leading and responsible role in the global community . |
| 11 | Each Contracting State must establish a Central Authority , and there is freedom to designate additional ‘ other authorities ’ or , in the case of federal States , more than one Central Authority . |
| 12 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 13 | When there is failure to establish this good relationship there can be many reasons for it , which the wife , who loves them both , and is the best person to act as intermediary , should try to understand . |
| 14 | There is reluctance to allow such debates in view of the considerable disruption caused to the Parliamentary timetable . |
| 15 | There is approval ofthe free market for wealth creation and many of the economic policies this entails . |
| 16 | Of course there may be questions about what the Act means , and of course there is power to hold statutory instruments and other subordinate legislation ultra vires . |
| 17 | However , when the recipients of local government services are identified , there is reason to question this argument . |
| 18 | There is reason to associate this with the Minister of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty known as Imhotep , later deified as the Father of Egyptian science . |
| 19 | Maybe there is room to use this power of attraction to create a new method of live rock performance . |
| 20 | Clearly there is room to increase these numbers by emphasising that nurse training is not only for young women . |
| 21 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 22 | It is nonsense to suppose that local authorities should be let off the financial hook for flagrant mismanagement of their responsibilities . |
| 23 | Reminiscent of Canada , or the American mid-west , it is landscape drawn large ; huge skies and wide river prospects , acre on acre of golden wheatlands dotted with ancient stone churches and large prosperous farmsteads of red brick and orange pantile . |
| 24 | It is rape to have sexual intercourse with a woman by impersonating her husband or by deceiving her as to the nature of the act . |
| 25 | It is policy to screen all mothers with risk factors for gestational diabetes ( family history of diabetes , previous gestational diabetes , poor obstetric history , clinical polyhydramnios , maternal obesity , or previous macrosomic infant ( >4000 g ) with a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test at 30 weeks ' gestation . |
| 26 | This view is supported by the District Councils who are united in their opposition for a policy incorporating more detailed guidance , particularly if it is sort to identify specific categories of exceptions likely to be considered to represent appropriate development in the countryside . |
| 27 | Let none persuade you it is cruelty to do this ; it is cruelty not to do it . |
| 28 | It is time to empower elderly people too . |
| 29 | It could not have come about if the Trust had ever said to itself ‘ it is time to stop growing ’ . |
| 30 | It is time to leave this place . |