Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part . |
| 2 | For ease of reference it is simpler to call these two main sources ‘ paper ’ and ‘ people ’ . |
| 3 | The dilemma for the firm is that to adopt any other terminology ( eg associate ) may diminish the status of the salaried partner in both his own and the client 's eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it is absurd to remove that beautiful countryside when we are at our wits end over what to do with deep-mined coal . ’ |
| 5 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 6 | As the hydrogen atoms are the lightest they must move most , and it is usual to describe all three as deformation modes of the group ( Fig. 5.45 ) . |
| 7 | Although Newco will seek from the vendor warranties which may provide redress if a problem arises after completion , it is preferable to identify any serious problem before the purchase and negotiate a reduction in price , rather than to litigate a warranty claim afterwards . |
| 8 | Having seen the Shias in the refugee camps in south Iran and in south-east Iraq , I can understand at last how it is possible to ignore such appalling things . |
| 9 | It is necessary to distinguish between gradual and abrupt , minor and major , peaceful and violent political changes ; and so far as is possible to connect these diverse phenomena with their causes or conditions . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we have already seen that it is possible to see some total societies as externalizations of paranoia ; not merely as collective projections ( which may also be present ) , but as realizations of paranoid processes within the architecture of the state . |
| 11 | From his approach it is possible to link some eigh-teenth-century forms of recreation to the revised view of nineteenth-century forms recently presented by Dr Cunningham with its greater emphasis on commercial provision for working-class tastes . |
| 12 | This means that it is possible to kill many more rabbits in one field at any one time with a rifle than can ever be accomplished with a shotgun . |
| 13 | As against this , it is possible to argue that corporate power , as exercised by management , is still ultimately rooted in , and hence legitimated by , property rights , on the ground that the structure that gives rise to it is created with the consent of the shareholders . |
| 14 | We should ask , rather , what kinds of predicates there are and whether it is possible to obliterate such logical differences as do exist between them . |
| 15 | Finally , it is possible to take all this with you when you travel . |
| 16 | It is possible to miss this important point about pragmatism , however , and we should be careful not to fall into the trap . |
| 17 | Even though the data derived from the Detailed Spectrum Investigation does not constitute a detailed analysis of the European situation , it is possible to draw some general conclusions . |
| 18 | Summer skiing : On the Kitzsteinhorn glacier , reached by cable cars and a funicular , it is possible to enjoy some good quality skiing , but only in the mornings as the snow becomes too soft in the afternoons . |
| 19 | It is possible to modify these various statements of the no-arbitrage condition to allow for continuous compounding . |
| 20 | However , there is no practical way in which it is possible to avoid all such misunderstandings and conflict . |
| 21 | It is possible to discern some international trends in economic policy . |
| 22 | It is possible to distinguish many different forms of giving in the field of welfare . |
| 23 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 24 | By collecting the progeny of single 8-cell blastomeres in vitro it is possible to separate these two subpopulations since the pairs of 16-cell blastomeres are generally of different sizes and in most cases the larger cell is polar ( presumptive trophectoderm , TE ) and the smaller cell is apolar ( presumptive inner cell mass , ICM ) ( 26 , and Section 4.1 ) . |
| 25 | Against the complexity of the relationships raised here it is possible to present some hard evidence of the actual working of financial institutions . |
| 26 | However , it is possible to make some general comments about the ways in which descriptions of a child 's language difficulties can contribute to planning intervention . |
| 27 | It is possible to identify many individual wage earners in the court records , and the next stage of the project involves finding out more from other sources about these individuals , so as to understand more fully their social and economic position , and especially the extent to which they were solely reliant on their income from wage earning . |
| 28 | If we look at intra-oceanic island arcs in more detail it is possible to identify several major morphological and structural elements that are common to many ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 29 | A detailed study of the Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) shows that its design resolves into a number of distinct functional areas ; using this kind of analysis , it is possible to identify several separate sanctuary suites within the temple . |
| 30 | So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications . |