Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [is] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These courses would be much more cross-disciplinary than is the case now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 . " |
| 4 | Fancye and fresh as is the emrawde grene , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Note , however , that this should not be as explicit as is the name of the murderer . |
| 9 | The well developed buccal capsule of the adult parasite is prominent as is the bursa of the male . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | This has the advantage that , as the level of prices alters over time , the variance of the logarithm of the price relatives is more likely to be stationary than is the variance of the alternatives . |
| 15 | For the same reason pick-up after treatment and time of return home may also be better than is the case with the larger non-emergency ambulance . |
| 16 | It is likewise unimportant whether is a food parallel to or not both because the relation of the lines does not depend upon the relation between the terms that are " in parallel " ( as we say ) , and because the notion that an ideal parallelism is a truly synonymous parallelism has been exploded by the principle of the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 17 | It is not , any more than is the case in natural science . |
| 18 | The lessee is not a surety for the assignee , any more than is the assignee the agent of the lessee . |
| 19 | The variety is enormous as is the nature of the response to feminism which they reflect . |
| 20 | Proper management control of safety is important as is the provision of proper safety systems . |
| 21 | Cleanliness and hygiene are obviously important as is the siting of new animal houses or manure stores in order to obtain maximum dispersion of the odour . |
| 22 | The misery to the old person is considerable as is the expense to the National Health Service . |
| 23 | The line ( 0 ) is the reaction function of manufacturer 1 whilst is the reaction function of the retailer of 2 's product when charged an input price ( costs are assumed here to equal zero ) . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 25 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
| 26 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 27 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 28 | Indeed , entry into the party-state bureaucracy may be more open than is the case with other elites ( Hirszowicz 1980 , p. 108 ) . |
| 29 | After a time this ability becomes as instinctive as is the power of singing or whistling a note of any pitch desired , but it should be obvious that horn parts should keep to ‘ vocal ’ intervals or stepwise movement as far as possible . |
| 30 | Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard . |