Example sentences of "[conj] is [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth noting that the word " religion " either does not naturally feature in some religions , or is regarded by many religious people with considerable disapproval .
2 ‘ Every idea which is held in the mind takes its origin from the senses … [ it ] either comes through the senses , or is formed from those which come through the senses . ’
3 If your tank cracks or is broken under this type of policy , you can claim for your tank along with your carpets and anything else which is ruined .
4 During this time various encoding operations may be performed upon the stored information which enables some representation of the stimulus to be held in a short term memory store , after which it either drops out or is transferred into some other more durable store .
5 The Trader warrants that he is either the owner of the goods in any Consignment or is authorized by such owner to accept these Conditions on such owner 's behalf .
6 None of the activities described here exists or is encouraged in any extensive way nationally in the way that hospital or prison work is , but they are nevertheless of interest .
7 A paranoid reproach is aimed at all females by an Amis-like figure , who then reproaches himself , or is reproached by some other Amis agent detectable in the novel .
8 Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad .
9 Fabliau(s) is in fact the form this word took in the dialect of the north-eastern corner of France in the twelfth to fourteenth century ( the final -s is a nominative singular case marker that is lost during this period ) .
10 You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints .
11 To establish the merit of project proposals without overlooking any significant factor , it is highly desirable to have a selection system that is applied to all cases .
12 To establish the merit of project proposals without overlooking any significant factor , it is highly desirable to have a selection system that is applied to all cases .
13 Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers .
14 It implies that capacity for personal affective response that is dismissed by those who wish to transform literature into a purely cognitive discourse .
15 The misery that is caused by these lines will at last be wiped out . ’
16 Bernard Williams defines the respect that is owed to all persons as an effort of understanding , ‘ to see the world from his point of view ’ .
17 WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia .
18 We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy .
19 We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy .
20 We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy .
21 We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy .
22 The Tax Faculty believes that an employer should be able to negotiate a settlement that is binding on both departments .
23 What happens if you increase , say there 's one country that is exporting to all countries of the world , alright , its production may well be very large therefore , er , what benefits might that have ?
24 At the other end of the scale the ‘ When in Rome do as the Romans ’ is no excuse for dropping to the level of a curse between every other word that is met in some otherwise honest circles .
25 Carbon 14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon that is absorbed by all living things ; the proportion of carbon 14 to other isotopes of carbon remains constant , but when something dies , the carbon 14 in it decays at a known rate , while the other isotopes stay the same .
26 The second copy command is the XCOPY and this will copy only selected files from one disk to another , along with all files in their sub directories. ( a sub-directory is a directory that is placed inside another directory ) To begin with this is the least used of the copy programs and should be studied further before use is attempted .
27 I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses .
28 Women provide the ‘ matter ’ or ‘ blood ’ that is shaped by this male formative power .
29 Robertson Nicoll told A. S. Peake in 1898 , ‘ You would not believe what hosts of letters I get , and do not print , about the kind of thing that is preached in many of our chapels just now , especially by the younger men ’ .
30 The poverty that is created in some African countries by a combination of the debt crisis , poor harvests and droughts forces people to seek survival somewhere else .
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