Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's possible to bring down game with a spear or a bow and arrow , but these take considerable practice and involve hours spent lying in wait . |
2 | This is why it is absurd to lay down specifications as to which books children should have read by the time they are eleven , or what kind of mathematical problems they should be able to solve . |
3 | It is awful to think so Elsie I know but I am sure some of them felt cheated when nothing was found . |
4 | It is possible to record both FDR and CVR information on the same tape . |
5 | If blasphemy was ‘ a way of affirming belief , then it is possible to see how Eliot 's most blasphemously despairing poem , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , led up to his conversion . |
6 | It is possible to tidy up Freud 's theory and see the ‘ archaic heritage ’ as transmitted by cultural institutions , such as religious and legal codes , as Freud himself did at times . |
7 | Where restrictive covenants and rights of way appear to have lapsed and extensive investigations fail to locate any individual able to enforce or enjoy the benefit from such rights , it is possible to take out indemnity insurance against the remote possibility that anyone emerges with the legal right to enforce the covenant or right of way . |
8 | Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week . |
9 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
10 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
11 | Often at this point it is possible to pick out tasks which , although time-consuming and important to the project , do not influence the progress of the overall programme . |
12 | It is not in any way necessary to record the whole of the lesson from either the intellectual or the affective point of view ; experience shows that it is possible to pick out segments of the lesson for detailed observation of either kind , which provide enough information for developmental purposes . |
13 | Using this method , or a combination of woven intarsia and weaving in areas , it is possible to build up pictures , and this is one of the most effective ways of knitting pictures and wall-hangings . |
14 | By surrounding the subject 's head with a detector array , connected to suitable computer hardware , it is possible to build up images of the brain , indicating the areas of different levels of radioactivity , and hence of metabolic activity . |
15 | I would argue that it is possible to consider both literacy and social change from a perspective which avoids such distinctions and such determinism and which allows us to develop a model from which new and interesting research questions can emerge . |
16 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
17 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
18 | But the officer/manager should not trust the ‘ man ’ unless it has been demonstrated , such as through promotion , that he is willing to take on responsibility . |
19 | Minority shareholder and OEM partner Hewlett-Packard Co says it is prepared to take over Sequoia 's project to develop a fault-tolerant Precision Architecture RISC-based machine . |
20 | No , that 's cos it 's old clapped out thing ! |
21 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
22 | It is interesting to analyze why individuals choose to make their careers in the Middle East . |
23 | It is interesting to notice here indications of the decadence of the late Roman style in the relieving arches accentuated over a lintel and columns supported on corbels ( 138 ) . |
24 | And it is interesting to see how Luke works this theme out in his two-volume work . |
25 | It is interesting to study how Mrs Thatcher eventually came to dominate the Cabinet , bearing in mind that many Cabinet ministers in 1979 were not supporters of her economic strategy . |
26 | It is interesting to note here Yorke 's survey of teachers reported in English in Education ( 1974 and 1979 ) . |
27 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
28 | It never surprises me when black folks respond to the critique of essentialism , especially when it denies the validity of identity politics , by saying ‘ Yeah , it 's easy to give up identity when you got one ’ . |
29 | It 's easy to see why Reitzle was impressed . |
30 | It 's easy to see why guests return to the Seewinkel year after year . |