Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE DAILY TELEGRAPH is due to announce today plans to integrate staff into a seven-days-a-week publishing operation . |
| 2 | The body of philosophical opinion which avers that life is absurd has never appealed to him . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , it 's absurd to stand here bandying words . |
| 4 | Channel 4 's Right To Reply tonight focuses on the future of Eldorado . |
| 5 | Enter the steepening corner crack and climb it until it is possible to move delicately left out across the wall . |
| 6 | The sales-task approach to advertising expenditure can be particularly useful in situations where it is possible to state clearly defined objectives for advertising eg ‘ to increase awareness of product X in Y market from present levels to ( say ) 70% . ’ |
| 7 | It is possible to purchase greatly discounted tickets for Magee Music events in this way . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the exact location of the territorial boundaries is not known , but it is possible to make statistically based estimates of their approximate positions ( Figure 23 ) . |
| 9 | He shows that it is possible to make soundly constructed bridges between industry and academia , between the world of soil mechanics and that of Wagner . |
| 10 | If the visual cortex of a monkey is exposed to a stain that highlights the enzyme cytochrome oxidase it is possible to identify densely labelled blobs , which indicate high concentrations of the enzyme , in the upper layers of the visual cortex ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 11 | By counting the cited items in journals and finding the proportion of such citations not recorded in SCI , it is possible to calculate backwards to determine the impact factor for non-SCI journals . |
| 12 | ‘ I know yer could , mate , but what 's that got ter do wiv what we 're lookin' at right now ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What 's that got ter do wiv Aggie 's mouser ? ’ |
| 14 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 15 | Oddly enough , although they are younger than the rugose corals , the aragonite composing them does not preserve very well , and it is easier to find beautifully preserved examples of the older Rugosa . |
| 16 | Even so , Wendler is careful to qualify best estimates , saying ‘ open environments will not be possible in the absolute , even by 1996 , but solutions will emerge that are increasingly less closed . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 18 | It is impossible to experience both fear and peace of mind at the same time . |
| 19 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 20 | The dinosaur is supposed to look comically unfrightening — the humour here is broad . |
| 21 | Amongst other escapes , a common criminal , Wesley Scroggs who is supposed to have just slung a rope over the battlements to get away and another prisoner who just ran out of the main door into the street . |
| 22 | It consists of making categorical and systematic certain distinctions made , and preferences expressed , by Eliot in his essays ; and then dismissing Pound merely because he writes with a measure of respect of certain writers ( Swinburne is one example ) on whom Eliot , the arbiter of taste , is supposed to have conclusively turned down his thumbs . |
| 23 | For if our physical reality is largely linked to the mental and sensory mechanisms we possess , then what was the nature of physical reality before life is supposed to have spontaneously emerged — like mice out of soiled linen , as some Victorians thought — from the primaeval muds of ancient oceans ? |
| 24 | St Bridget is supposed to have quickly twisted some dry reeds into the form of a cross , so that a dying pagan could see the symbol of Christ and perhaps enter Heaven . |
| 25 | Durkheim belonged to that contemplative school of armchair theorists epitomized by Sir James Frazer , who is supposed to have solemnly replied ‘ God forbid ! ’ to the innocent questioner who asked if he had ever lived amongst ‘ savages ’ . |
| 26 | The proposal is likely to emerge radically altered when details are set out in regulations after the loans legislation is passed . |
| 27 | This is an important subject which is likely to remain actively debated for some time . |
| 28 | In addition , the clause is likely to deter both employed women from continuing with low-paid jobs and women returners from entering such employment when their partners are unemployed . |
| 29 | If possible , the patient learns to walk without any support at all : if he learns to lean on a stick , tripod or quadrupod , his body balance is likely to become totally distorted , and he can not learn the necessary body control to walk safely . |
| 30 | ‘ But on the other hand , at the same time , the minority is likely to become more integrated into national life , because short of reaching total political independence , a high level of assimilation seems to be a prerequisite for achieving empowerment . |