Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset in 1947 , Barber was closely concerned with the initiation of M & B 's agricultural and veterinary activities . |
| 2 | We often ignore intuition , when it 's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds . |
| 3 | However , the purchaser should bear in mind that some of the information supplied previously is historic and revised updates should be requested . |
| 4 | In unfair dismissal cases , it is understandable that industrial tribunals tend to shrink away from complex arithmetic . |
| 5 | Its total population is thought to be no greater than 200–300 , scattered along about 1400 km ( 875 miles ) of the Yangtze 's lower and central sections . |
| 6 | Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained . |
| 7 | This compares with an average of 9% achieved in the 1980s , and is lower than reformist economists and provincial leaders had hoped . |
| 8 | ‘ Is that where Roman generals marched in celebration ? |
| 9 | It is absurd that Western citizens should give money to help victims of apartheid in Mozambique and Angola , only to find their own elected governments undermining that work by continuing to trade with South Africa . |
| 10 | It is absurd that French Railways can raise funds for new investment in the City of London , when British Rail is not allowed to do so . |
| 11 | But , again , I simplify : the process is two-way and black kids contribute to their own general lack of success at school by manifesting little desire to learn conventional subjects . |
| 12 | Pilaster strip decoration is usual and small windows , increasing in size towards the top . |
| 13 | However , in the midst of a changing countryside , it is rural and suburban gardens rather than fields and hedgerows that now provide some of the best havens for these mammals , as they do for much of our native wildlife . |
| 14 | The cost of running SYMAP is low since standard peripherals are used , so it makes sense to use it as an aid to map design before proceeding to a more elaborate plotter mapping package such as GIMMS . |
| 15 | Whatever the basis for these suspicions , it is undeniable that close connections between the mining companies and some prominent politicians were to raise grave doubts about the legitimacy of state actions in relation to mining . |
| 16 | The gardens are quiet and secluded , the service is friendly and magnificent meals tempt the most jaded appetites . |
| 17 | Steers ( 1953 ) has stressed the importance of vegetation and of dune formation in the history of offshore bars on the north Norfolk coast , which will be discussed below , and it is possible that slight changes of base level may also be important in the initial stages of some offshore bars . |
| 18 | It is possible that concrete foundations for a boundary wall will be laid at the same time by the adjacent landowner ) ; |
| 19 | Most of the terraces are preserved as flattenings on spurs and it is possible that similar features might result from wasting of a spur due to attack by the headward erosion of valleys on either side . |
| 20 | It is possible that future developments in storage and warehousing may intensify these problems . |
| 21 | It is possible that future cohorts of older people will illustrate different patterns of disability . |
| 22 | As the severity of Crohn 's disease and linear growth velocity during the first two years of follow up among males and females were comparable , it is possible that varying demands on growth during normal puberty may account for these differences . |
| 23 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 24 | Expanding upon his conversation at the Paris airshow ( see the August issue ) , Yakovlev noted that , ‘ It is possible that other types of single-engined Yak replicas or restorations will appear . ’ |
| 25 | A quarter of the present patients had no identifiable gastrointestinal infection/infestation ; it is possible that new organisms or occult infection are implicated , and , although unlikely given the absence of CD4 receptors on healthy biliary epithelium , HIV may itself damage the biliary tree . |
| 26 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 27 | Even in the case of language tests , it is possible that situational factors will influence a child 's performance and hence make comparisons between two sets of scores difficult to interpret . |
| 28 | " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake . |
| 29 | With eighty percent of the scholarly publications in research libraries printed on acidic paper and major campaigns underway in the US and Europe either to reformat or substitute that material in new formats such as microfilm or digital media it is possible that retrospective conversions will eventually digitize millions of volumes . |
| 30 | However , it is possible that cognitive changes occurring in the early stages of a depressive disorder may initiate a vicious circle that can transform an otherwise mild and short-lived reaction into one that is more severe and protracted . |