Example sentences of "is [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , the total cost of the Buxtehude experiment is 5.0 million DM , yet the saving in accident compensation has been estimated at 1.4 million DM for the first year of the experiment alone .
2 ‘ But what I am talking about , because it is my business , is mainstream commercial cinema and I do maintain that mainstream cinema should be looking towards its audience .
3 Bargaining is centralized , highly formalized , and wide-ranging with highly codified agreements , and there is extensive joint consultation .
4 When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt .
5 This point will be particularly important in areas which have net inflow of elderly patients , and in areas where there is extensive new building of residential or nursing homes .
6 There is extensive empirical evidence to show that if people who are leaving are treated well the quality of the service or product is maintained .
7 This numerical analysis suggests that there is extensive social contact between older people and their families , friends and neighbours .
8 My believe is what P P G is inviting local authorities to do is be cautious in proposing them , they should not be regarded as a first option , or an easy option , they should be cautious in proposing them .
9 For when there is little actual communication , barriers soon go up , and with them come misunderstandings , conflict and anger .
10 The head of each specialty reports directly to the top , and there is little middle management .
11 Systems integrators and resellers are thin on the ground , and there is little home-grown technology .
12 There is little logical difference , then between 16 workstations on a local network and a chassis with 16 processors .
13 Now David Moores , and his good friend Graeme Souness , has won the FA Cup — but there is little firm evidence that Liverpool are about to emulate their dominance of the Shankly-Paisley-Fagan-Dalglish era .
14 While the information assembled here facilitates the design and implementation of interventions that might reasonably be expected to be effective , chapter 9 shows that there is little firm evidence to demonstrate such effectiveness in many specific high-risk situations .
15 Although there is little firm evidence on the safety implications of genetic modification , the EDF is concerned that without stringent safety checks , unsafe foods could find their way onto the market .
16 She says that as Mexican workers socialise mostly with the extended family , there is little personal contact with coworkers ( Lomnitz 1982 ) .
17 There is little personal contact with customers
18 As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) .
19 Even when the attempt fails there is little immediate comfort for those involved .
20 There is little adverse effect from the light sprinkling of typographical errors .
21 If deconstruction in a purest sense is only of limited interest to a study which is asserting that texts emerge out of a particular culture called the English Renaissance , it is also true that , fortunately , there is little pure deconstruction about .
22 But for the forgotten victims — the wives — there is little official recognition , let alone pressure for reform .
23 Such rights , though commonly appendant or appurtenant to land — there is little practical difference between the two phrases — are not necessarily so .
24 Following trade representations , Customs have now decided that there is little practical difference between the schemes and will accept that output tax is due only on the payment from the employee and any third party .
25 Having said that , it has been suggested that the extent of the duty to use best endeavours depends upon the facts in each case and , pursuant to IBM United Kingdom Ltd v Rockware Glass Ltd [ 1980 ] FSR 335 , it may be that there is little practical difference between a covenant to use best endeavours , a covenant to use reasonable endeavours and a covenant to take all reasonable steps .
26 The slowest speeds , however , are already quite fast and there is little practical room for manipulation beyond them .
27 Limited and unlimited partnerships have no corporate personality but there is little practical consequence of the distinction between having or lacking corporate personality .
28 It is perhaps for these reasons that there is little tangible evidence showing any measurable reduction in loss of fire damage to contents or structures .
29 Unlike primary legislation , where there is , whatever its failings , a consistency of style and form there is little such consistency in judgments .
30 The Boomtown Rats have exploded out of the country , but there is little lingering after-effect .
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