Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For example , from the model derived above it is clear that output will be raised above its normal rate only if people in general are fooled into believing that the average price level is lower than it actually is .
2 What you 're saying , essentially , is that if you just automatically put a bet on every outsider with long odds , say twenty to one or something , through an entire season , you 're going to end up by losing money overall .
3 Is that when you actually sit down and you you know we if we were to actually cross out the words that were sexist in the service book , you know , er and put the non-sexist alternatives in .
4 erm There does seem to be a sort of slight discrepancy in the idea of us trying to have a nice clean city and then the people on the allotments committee continuing to build bonfires. erm And it is possible that they perhaps , they have n't in fact any alternative way of getting rid of their rubbish , on the allotments site .
5 It is possible that this is a result of the different judgment tasks that were used , certainly subjects reported finding the normality judgment a more difficult task to understand than either of the tasks from Study 2 , it is possible that it also required more attention to the films generally .
6 If that is the case , then it is possible that he also thought that the synagogue ritual , as well as the direction of their commercial life and benefactions should have been handled differently .
7 Even with his authority flouted , in spite of all manner of provocation , it is possible that he still loved his eldest son , at least when Vincent was absent .
8 Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester .
9 Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester .
10 It is possible that he now established Anna 's brother , Aethelhere ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) in his place , to judge from Aethelhere 's presence in Penda 's army at the Winwaed , if not as a dependent ruler at least as an ally ( HE 111 , 24 ) .
11 It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work .
12 Yes , this is possible and it even has a name : superfecundation .
13 One such is Claire ( Genevieve Bujold ) but Beverly starts to take the relationship seriously , and is upset when she temporarily rejects both of them .
14 The selection is right if it truly works for the competing student , and it is the quality and force of the imagination that will carry off the performance of the piece .
15 However , one of the main reasons Petrey gives for his admiration of speech act theory is its superiority to cognitive accounts , so it is odd that he never spells out where this superiority lies .
16 He was paid as such down to 1287 and in 1290 was still in possession of a key to the Jewish treasury , but it is doubtful whether he actually acted as a justice for most of this period , since in February 1283 he was appointed to the full-time position of escheator of England south of Trent .
17 While Benjamin recognized the problem — for example , he discussed Fascist appropriations of the new reproduction technologies — it is doubtful whether he fully accepted its theoretical source : namely his virtual conflation of mass and class .
18 Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians .
19 Trolls can sometimes be persuaded to join Orcs or Goblins as they march to battle , although it is doubtful if they really understand what is going on .
20 He read medicine at the University of Edinburgh , though it is doubtful if he ever intended to practise .
21 However , it is clear that we still need to distinguish between different advantages which can be distributed unequally .
22 But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved .
23 However , on further examination it is clear that they often disagree as to what constitutes pornography , while overlapping on representations of sexual violence , they radically disagree on those of non-violent , non-marital sexual practices .
24 Salvidge was right to claim that Leith had overstepped the mark and that he had no mandate for his action , but it is clear that he rather than Salvidge really represented the views of the National Union .
25 Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister .
26 That is clear because they often do so when there are areas nearby that are equally suitable which they leave entirely vacant .
27 Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to .
28 Is this because they never had them or because they have lost them ?
29 Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University .
30 The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to .
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