Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |
| 2 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 3 | Some people do n't believe that it 's possible to tan in any other way , but provided you are sensible and use quality sunscreens , you can go brown more safely . |
| 4 | It is unnecessary to refer to any other provisions of the scheme because I have already quoted the corresponding provisions in the Act . |
| 5 | Although the project is due to run for another year , the county council 's planning department hope information will be made available this summer . |
| 6 | The best that can be said is that to appeal to such a wide diversity of patrons he clearly possessed some very rare talent indeed . |
| 7 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 8 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's how it is ’ , they answered , ‘ he 's due to go on such-and-such a date ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think it 's right to listen to this wicked man 's talk ? ’ |
| 11 | Also between Hindscarth and Ronsingon , it is possible to descend from any point along this ridge to the Buttermere valley . |
| 12 | As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers . |
| 13 | Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House . |
| 14 | It is possible to see in some of his work that rain is imminent as a warm front spreads into the landscape from the Irish Sea . |
| 15 | It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account . |
| 16 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 17 | For example we can use it to show that it is possible to pivot from any primal feasible tableau ( T1 ) corresponding to a set of constraints to any other primal feasible tableau ( T2 ) for these constraints , maintaining primal feasibility . |
| 18 | In Section 6.3 , we showed that it is possible to pivot from any BFS to any other BFS through a sequence of BFSs . |
| 19 | Although overall this view is still widely held , it is possible to point to several cases of reversal when , for example , agriculturalists reverted to hunting and gathering . |
| 20 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 21 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 22 | In keeping with the grand design , the sewers designed by Haussmann and his great engineer Belgrand were so magnificent that to this day they form part of the tourist 's Paris , for it is possible to cruise through these huge well-lighted caverns in a boat . |
| 23 | It is possible to sympathize with these arguments , but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies . |
| 24 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 25 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 26 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 27 | As far as politics is concerned , it is possible to look at those who are deliberately attempting to construct their own ideological cameras . |
| 28 | The term issue is normally used when it is possible to show beyond any reasonable doubt that the variations occurred after some of the edition had already been published , so that first and second issues ( and even more ) are recognisable . |
| 29 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 30 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |