Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why it is absurd to lay down specifications as to which books children should have read by the time they are eleven , or what kind of mathematical problems they should be able to solve . |
| 2 | It is awful to think so Elsie I know but I am sure some of them felt cheated when nothing was found . |
| 3 | It is possible to record both FDR and CVR information on the same tape . |
| 4 | If blasphemy was ‘ a way of affirming belief , then it is possible to see how Eliot 's most blasphemously despairing poem , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , led up to his conversion . |
| 5 | It is possible to tidy up Freud 's theory and see the ‘ archaic heritage ’ as transmitted by cultural institutions , such as religious and legal codes , as Freud himself did at times . |
| 6 | Where restrictive covenants and rights of way appear to have lapsed and extensive investigations fail to locate any individual able to enforce or enjoy the benefit from such rights , it is possible to take out indemnity insurance against the remote possibility that anyone emerges with the legal right to enforce the covenant or right of way . |
| 7 | Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week . |
| 8 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 9 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 10 | Often at this point it is possible to pick out tasks which , although time-consuming and important to the project , do not influence the progress of the overall programme . |
| 11 | It is not in any way necessary to record the whole of the lesson from either the intellectual or the affective point of view ; experience shows that it is possible to pick out segments of the lesson for detailed observation of either kind , which provide enough information for developmental purposes . |
| 12 | Using this method , or a combination of woven intarsia and weaving in areas , it is possible to build up pictures , and this is one of the most effective ways of knitting pictures and wall-hangings . |
| 13 | By surrounding the subject 's head with a detector array , connected to suitable computer hardware , it is possible to build up images of the brain , indicating the areas of different levels of radioactivity , and hence of metabolic activity . |
| 14 | I would argue that it is possible to consider both literacy and social change from a perspective which avoids such distinctions and such determinism and which allows us to develop a model from which new and interesting research questions can emerge . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 16 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
| 17 | But the officer/manager should not trust the ‘ man ’ unless it has been demonstrated , such as through promotion , that he is willing to take on responsibility . |
| 18 | Minority shareholder and OEM partner Hewlett-Packard Co says it is prepared to take over Sequoia 's project to develop a fault-tolerant Precision Architecture RISC-based machine . |
| 19 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 20 | It is interesting to analyze why individuals choose to make their careers in the Middle East . |
| 21 | It is interesting to notice here indications of the decadence of the late Roman style in the relieving arches accentuated over a lintel and columns supported on corbels ( 138 ) . |
| 22 | And it is interesting to see how Luke works this theme out in his two-volume work . |
| 23 | It is interesting to study how Mrs Thatcher eventually came to dominate the Cabinet , bearing in mind that many Cabinet ministers in 1979 were not supporters of her economic strategy . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note here Yorke 's survey of teachers reported in English in Education ( 1974 and 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 26 | It is impossible to predict when QT prolongation will be beneficial , in that it represents a prolongation of ventricular refractoriness , and when it will be harmful . |
| 27 | It is impossible to foresee how life will work out , but a reasonable attempt should at least be made to avoid the obvious pitfalls . |
| 28 | It is impossible to understand why health care is financed the way it is in the United Kingdom without looking briefly at its historical origins . |
| 29 | It is impossible to understand why Eliot should have excluded the ‘ Propertius ’ from his selection of Pound 's work . |
| 30 | It is easy to see why Elizabeth feels this way , and needs a lot of tact and patience to cope with what she perceives as her husband 's unreasonable childishness . |