Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is possible to isolate several features of community care . |
| 32 | In the shorter term , it is possible to raise several issues that are of concern to those working with pre-school and special needs . |
| 33 | It is possible to express many-to-many relationships using the hierarchical model , but only by creating two hierarchies . |
| 34 | It is possible to run all lifts on machine-made snow and this means that Killington has been able to open for skiing from October to June every season since 1982 . |
| 35 | I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives . |
| 36 | My hon. Friend is right to raise those issues and to seek to be satisfied that the proposals are properly examined and fully justified . |
| 37 | I doubt , however , if it is right to limit these anxieties to ‘ those who ruled Britain' . |
| 38 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 39 | We er er erm in this country have a very bitter experience with B C C I , it was n't just the knock it took to the regulatory system but I need hardly remind this house there are thousands of people who lost everything they had and that and there are many people who lost everything they had and feel that this house has not taken their concern seriously and it 's something the minister must show that the government is willing to pursue these matters , even if it means introducing primary legislation . |
| 40 | At the moment Jacques Chirac 's RPR is favourite to win most seats and former finance minister Balladur is likely to become prime minister . |
| 41 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |
| 42 | It must be remembered , however , that unless the mother is prepared to take these actions , there is little point in having the tests , tests which themselves create a one in 60–70 chance of miscarriage . |
| 43 | They imply also that the organization is prepared to make more mistakes , but to carry the consequences in view of the greater benefits to the organization as a whole from being action-oriented . |
| 44 | Sometimes it is acceptable to treat such words or concepts as equivalent to one another , but on other occasions it is important to differentiate between them . |
| 45 | At this stage any member is free to raise any points concerning the accuracy of the report of what happened at the previous meeting , as recorded in the minutes . |
| 46 | It is wrong to extend such concepts to explain the wholesale replacement of large groups of animals by others . |
| 47 | It is interesting to compare these lines with a similar passage in Philips 's poem : |
| 48 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
| 49 | It is impossible to resolve these problems since there is no information which would allow us to pass judgements on them . |
| 50 | Despite the extensive sampling during the excavation of the sixth and seventh century settlement at Cowdery 's Down the results prompted the excavator to offer a warning about interpreting the results ; it was concluded that ‘ it is impossible to make any assertions about the economy or waste disposal systems associated with the site ’ ( Green 1983 , p. 261 ) . |
| 51 | It is impossible to forget these mothers and the matter-of-fact way in which they relate their experiences , an indication that they know their suffering is by no means unique . |
| 52 | With many tax options available for local authorities , it is impossible to consider all possibilities thoroughly within this chapter . |
| 53 | It is impossible to write such criteria . |
| 54 | It is impossible to quantify these concepts precisely and the assumption that changes are small is more likely to be valid in large-scale problems ( where one coefficient , for example , is less important in relation to the rest of the data ) than in the simple examples used for illustration , but the underlying principles are independent of such considerations . |
| 55 | It is easy to dismiss such claims as aspirational and self-fulfilling . |
| 56 | However , because fatty foods contain lots of calories in a small space , it is easy to eat such foods quickly , and potentially to put on weight . |
| 57 | It is easy to blur such distinctions . |
| 58 | Furthermore , the states of a theorem prover are sets of axioms and proved assertions , and these are easily remembered , so it is easy to keep many states simultaneously . |
| 59 | In this example , No. 3 is the same as No. 1 , but it is easy to imagine many circumstances in which they would be different in practice . |
| 60 | With a selection of fillings , it is easy to please all tastes . |