Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 2 | Remember that it is possible to respect your own opinions and those of other people , even if those opinions differ . |
| 3 | So by examining meteorites it is possible to discover what some of the asteroids are made of without ever having to visit the asteroid belt . |
| 4 | Most people only have shingles once in a lifetime but it is possible to have it several times . |
| 5 | But if you follow instructions carefully , it is possible to fit your own . |
| 6 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 7 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 8 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 9 | But the Service will allow her time off and she is prepared to make her own arrangements regarding food and accommodation . |
| 10 | I think it is sensible to separate his many librettos into categories — not for the sake of ultimate classification , but because it helps to understand the nature of the finished works , in their full musical dress . |
| 11 | Apart from natural justice principles , the exchange is free to establish its own disciplinary and arbitration procedures . |
| 12 | Britain 's is content to debate it all after the decisions have been made , and then pass the lot virtually unamended . |
| 13 | It is impossible to infect someone this way . |
| 14 | Although throughout Marx 's and Engels 's work reference to property is so extensive that it is impossible to take them all into account , a general pattern emerges . |
| 15 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
| 16 | Have n't women an intuition that is supposed to tell them these things ? ’ |
| 17 | But I realise now that nobody is likely to give me another contract , ever again . |
| 18 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 19 | Each new kind of medium is likely to have its own built in obsolescence whether deficiencies these are inherent or merely the result of replacement by newer and more efficient technologies . |
| 20 | Each database will cover a specific topic and is likely to have its own set of potential uses . |
| 21 | Each child is likely to have his own particular patterns , but it 's not necessary , or desirable , or possible , to analyse each child 's errors as thoroughly as these examples do . |
| 22 | With convergence also on the issue of regional autonomy , it is hard to see what all the fuss and bother is about . |
| 23 | It is hard to describe it all to people who were n't there . |
| 24 | It is hard to take it all seriously When practising during daylight , but as our friends in Wales found , controlling a mobile body of men at night , without getting lost and remaining undetected , is not easy . |
| 25 | It is hard to tell what these powers might be from the 1992 Conservative manifesto , a model of vagueness . |
| 26 | At just 17 she is privileged to have her own flat and sports car both courtesy of her celebrity father who also provides her with £200 per week pocket money . |
| 27 | So it is helpful to understand what such registers consist of and how you create them . |
| 28 | For example , an oak is different from an elm or a beech ; but occasionally , it is useful to consider them all together : the word tree makes this possible . |
| 29 | This is unlikely to give you enough time to appreciate the breadth of materials on offer , however , and you could certainly supplement this by obtaining catalogues from nursing and medical book suppliers and by reading the book reviews in the nursing journals . |
| 30 | In general , this is a good idea since delay is unlikely to save you any money — and may in fact actually cost you more . |