Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 2 | Everyone is delighted to have had a glimpse of this most elusive and rare of British mammals , and there are smiles all round as we move on . |
| 3 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |
| 4 | During a visit to him there , Mary is supposed to have written a letter to Bothwell which , discovered later in a silver casket with some poems in French and a written agreement to marry Bothwell , pointed clearly to her complicity in a plot to murder her husband . |
| 5 | All young women who attend girls ' nights at their youth centre , or who go to girls ' days and weekends , and every woman youthworker involved ( whether in single-sex or mixed settings ) is likely to get labelled a lesbian . |
| 6 | Pollution is likely to have played a key role in the mass die-offs of seals , dolphins and fish and other natural disasters in recent years , she claimed . |
| 7 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |
| 8 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 9 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless some of the law in the Pactus is likely to have had a royal origin . |
| 11 | The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results . |
| 12 | Sighvat 's poem is known to be incomplete , but surviving verses do not mention the battle , and Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa says that Cnut opposed or threw back ( hnekDir ) the Swedes there , and describes him as their withstander ( prengvir ) , neither of which is resonant of overwhelming victory , Indeed , if Holy River was known only from the Chronicle entry one would think it a defeat , but Ottar is unlikely to have included a famous reverse in a list of Cnut 's achievements , and the royal title used in the 1027 Letter ( see below ) suggests that he did eventually claim suzerainty over some Swedes . |
| 13 | Slough , Berkshire-based T IS Ltd has launched a telephone call logging system aimed specifically at UK local authorities : dubbed Genesis MX , the system is claimed to produce cost centre recharge reports and time-to-answer reports in line with Citizen 's Charter recommendations ; personal computer-based , the product is also claimed to provide flexible recharge reports ( allowing for cross-billing of departments ) which can be linked to micro and mainframe systems for automatic accounting ; no word yet on list price , but T IS is also introducing a rental scheme for the system . |
| 14 | Little of scholarly value has been written on crime in colonial South Asia , but the work which is available has shown a strong positive relationship between property crime , including robbery , and depressed economic conditions . |
| 15 | A BUS firm 's decision to scrap a service because it is unprofitable has sparked a local outcry . |