Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the demand for golf courses vastly outweighing supply , it is refreshing to note that a number of courses have been given planning permission in the Durham and North Yorkshire area . |
| 2 | It is vain to think that more of the load will be shouldered by voluntary effort . |
| 3 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 4 | In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 5 | We completed the first four Munros with relative ease , since there is little rising or dropping between peaks , and cruised along a gloriously flat section of the ridge having fantasies about lunch . |
| 6 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 7 | There is little , if any , authorial commentary on the events of the story , just as there is little signposting as to how one event precipitates another . |
| 8 | This time , alas , there is little to cheer and they need to pick themselves up for this Saturday 's basement battle against Chester . |
| 9 | Grandfather used to say ‘ the day is a cock 's stride longer at Old Newerday ’ ( 12th January ) , but in the first week of the new year there is little to show that the sun is creeping marginally higher each day . |
| 10 | There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 . |
| 11 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 12 | In areas such as Cheltenham , Hereford and Eastbourne there is little to suggest that anything new has happened to enable them to translate this into general election support . |
| 13 | However , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 14 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 15 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 16 | At first sight there is little to suggest that Michell has found anything other than chance connections . |
| 17 | Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise . |
| 18 | And there is little to suggest that it will improve when China takes over . |
| 19 | Although much of their business was conducted in Anglo-Norman ( which developed a literature of its own ) there is little to suggest that ‘ English ’ magnates were ignorant of the best written French . |
| 20 | Even now cases of crossed aphasia in right handers are likely to be reported in the literature on account of their rarity ( e.g. Brown and Wilson , 1973 ; Zangwill , 1979 ; Wechsler , 1976 ; April and Han , 1980 ) although there is little to suggest that there is any qualitative difference between the aphasias produced by left and right sided lesions ( Carr , Jacobson and Boller , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Equally there is little to suggest that past human groups were any less exploitative of their environment — or any less spendthrift in their consumption of its resources — than we are today . |
| 22 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 23 | Whatever personal suffering the laws caused — and there is no doubt they caused a great deal — there is little to suggest that the development of the eighteenth-century economy was frustrated by an unusual level of institutionally produced labour immobility . |
| 24 | There is little to indicate that environmental and/or property improvements actually create jobs , boost output or encourage investment . |
| 25 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 26 | A CHESHIRE theatre yesterday raised the curtain on its Christmas show six months before it is due to open and disclosed it has scooped some of Britain 's major stars for its pantomime line-up . |
| 27 | As the Secretary of State is aware , Westminster hospital is due to close and the accident and emergency department is to move to St. Thomas 's hospital . |
| 28 | An application is an application for a renewal where it relates to premises in respect of which the applicant has been granted a licence which is due to expire and is for the same type of licence as that previously granted . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's sad that we are closing but our lease is due to expire and I always knew it would end if we could n't find other suitable premises , ’ said Mrs Erica Law , of Reeth , who set up the shop . |
| 30 | Although MAS will obviously be seeking to create an auction , it is normal to state that the vendors are not motivated purely by financial concerns but give great importance to other factors such as finding the right buyer , etc . |