Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end . |
| 2 | But while ( 57 ) is certainly ungrammatical , this is much less clearly true , if at all , of cases where happy is properly marked as non-restrictive : ( 58 ) Stephen , happy , seemed to have recovered all his lost energy |
| 3 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 4 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 5 | Overall , however , the railways are likely to be one of the toughest state sell-offs of them all , for BR has not made a profit for 40 years and is widely perceived as demoralised and run-down . |
| 6 | For example , an increase of approximately 100 per cent in vehicle mileage by 2025 is widely acknowledged as likely to be responsible for huge increases in energy consumption and pollution , yet the Department of Transport " is n't interested in energy efficiency " . |
| 7 | The size of the problem from the point of view of governments is widely acknowledged as large and growing . |
| 8 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 9 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 10 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 11 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 12 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 13 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 14 | But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways . |
| 15 | But even setting aside such terminological differences , it remains true that whether or not any animals employ symbolic representations is widely regarded as doubtful . |
| 16 | ‘ American culture ’ is widely regarded as inferior to ‘ European culture ’ , even as a threat . |
| 17 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 18 | Categorizing fiction according to a subject classification is widely recognized as difficult and unhelpful . |
| 19 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 20 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 21 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 22 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 23 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 24 | It is widely thought that substantial additional amounts were exported illegally to countries in Eastern Europe and the Third World . |
| 25 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 26 | The costa ( C ) is unbranched and convex while the subcosta ( Sc ) is rarely branched and concave . |
| 27 | In contrast sexual activity by men is rarely seen as problematic . |
| 28 | The indicators used are often extremely remote surrogates for true risk , and multiple deprivation is rarely treated as interactive rather than additive . |
| 29 | Where the land is badly scarred and broken , the simplest treatment is to plant trees and produce small patches of woodland . |
| 30 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |