Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [is] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ People think I 'm brave and on the outside I am brave that 's the message I 've put across since Donald 's funeral . |
| 2 | These courses would be much more cross-disciplinary than is the case now . |
| 3 | Consequently , it may be used more easily and fine tuning in earlier stages of design is much easier than is the case with an optimization technique . |
| 4 | " I appreciate your position , Mr Grout , but I 'm afraid that is the way things are set up . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid that 's the kind of detail it 's impossible for me to remember . |
| 6 | The point is that if these things have to be revealed so that I can find my sister then I 'm afraid that 's the way it 's going to be . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid that 's the story of Baldersdale today … the place they abandoned … the dale they left to die . |
| 8 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 9 | The presence of symptomatic gall stones in eight patients is interesting and is the subject of a more thorough investigation . |
| 10 | This last alloy is the cheapest and is the material that most vexes suppliers . |
| 11 | Fancye and fresh as is the emrawde grene , |
| 12 | Erm his name James Buchanan James Buchanan was asked to do something about the violations of the Fugitive Slave Law , this is the one that returned slaves back to their owners , erm and Buchanan said , I quote wisely limited and restrained as is the president 's power under our constitution , he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question . |
| 13 | Under these circumstances , it is scarcely surprising that walking in Britain is of diminishing importance , with total distance walked decreasing as is the percentage of all journeys that are made on foot . |
| 14 | This sense of ‘ apartness ’ reinforces the internal reliance of the mining community — or ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ ( p. 69 ) — and also promotes a greater level of strike-proneness than is the case in more heterogeneous industrial settlements . |
| 15 | words that yo people are using I 've got now , so I do n't even think of it , it 's just there and I just talk normal that 's the idea really and if anybody asks you what you 're doing , then you tell them and it and you say , if you do n't wish to be on it , well |
| 16 | Erm , ratio of injuries to deaths er for all accidents as a function of age and sex , and again , you can see males have , males do a lot worse than females and I think there 's one more , no sorry that 's the lot . |
| 17 | Oh no I go sorry that 's the answer ? |
| 18 | Sorry that is the county council 's view . |
| 19 | Note , however , that this should not be as explicit as is the name of the murderer . |
| 20 | The well developed buccal capsule of the adult parasite is prominent as is the bursa of the male . |
| 21 | The reform of our outdated and undemocratic voting system in particular is the change which will make other reforms possible and is the key to a successful future . |
| 22 | He 's quick and strong and is the type who will get on the end of things rather than play a big part in the build-up . |
| 23 | The shift from evidence of accuracy in performance under certain conditions to general conclusions about internalization of competence is in principle no more justified than is the extrapolation from pigeon pecking to human verbal behaviour . |
| 24 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 25 | Sort of op , nearly opposite that 's the London Road that is . |
| 26 | For example , is the slope of the forward transfer characteristic versus at constant and is the slope of the output characteristic versus at constant input current . |
| 27 | The need for teacher education and staff development for further education is therefore urgent and is the subject of much debate and not a little progress . |
| 28 | Although more people are aware of the term ‘ Euthanasia ’ and what this entails , general attitudes about death and its meaning are at best still ambivalent as is the case also in America , but where there is evidence since the 1960s of a burgeoning of courses in schools , colleges and some universities . |
| 29 | Piecemeal approaches to rural development are as inappropriate as is the encouragement of people in the belief that they can have similar services , income levels and amenities to those existing in other areas when policy and local circumstances will never in practice be able to provide them . |
| 30 | In their examination of the Narnia stories , the Rustins ( 1987 , pp.47–8 ) found that C. S. Lewis gave distinct roles to the male and female characters : ‘ The sexual division of labour is entirely conventional as is the apportionment of sensitivity and intuition to girls and courage and decisiveness to the boys ’ . |