Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that does that look like red to you ? |
| 2 | And , again , if it is functioning well , it is possible to see this reflected in the bearing and in the expressions of the players whilst they are making music . |
| 3 | Apart from being a very expensively-dressed woman , it appears she is willing to risk all to get her own way — never mind her in-laws or the unpleasantness it surrounds the princes with . |
| 4 | This was clearly identified in the consensus statement from the King 's Fund : ‘ Until teaching is recognised to be an important professional activity ( comparable in status to clinical service , research and management ) it is unrealistic to expect those involved to devote the necessary time and effort to planning and implementing any new curriculum . ’ |
| 5 | Therefore , it is appropriate to insert such safeguarding words as : So long as the buyer shall remain in possession of the lease and shall not have assigned the same . |
| 6 | This means that if a person is threatening another 's property in such a way that he is likely to cause another to act in self defence , he commits no offence . |
| 7 | The adoption of the proposed Directive in various ways in the various member states is likely to do little to improve this situation ( except that data protection laws will be enacted in all the EC states , rather than only some of them ) . ’ |
| 8 | It is conventional to regard all sleep Stages 1–4 as being slow wave sleep , to distinguish them from REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep . |
| 9 | With that said , however , it is hard to see this having a great deal of effect on safety in residential areas in Britain . |
| 10 | It 's better to have those dispel scrolls and protective artefacts than not . |
| 11 | It is reasonable to think this became more common after the revolution and after the discovery of oil . |
| 12 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 13 | 2.30:LEADING American hurdler Lonesome Glory is extremely difficult to assess but he is unlikely to appreciate these testing conditions . |
| 14 | Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ . |
| 15 | PETER Swales is unlikely to find any escape this week from the pressures of being one of soccer 's most powerful men . |
| 16 | Whether it 's potatoes or plums , lettuces or leeks , mushrooms or mangoes , the English greengrocery trade is reluctant to handle any produce which does not conform to a given size , a given number to the pound . |
| 17 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 18 | It is important to eat enough to prevent you from feeling hungry between meals . |
| 19 | By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals . |
| 20 | It is difficult to see this changing dramatically in spite of attempts to build up the position of the NHS Management Executive and timely clarifications of its role and relationships with the Policy Board , chaired by the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 22 | Regular thorough cleaning is necessary to shift all cooking residues . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
| 24 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |