Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid a detective 's life is mostly spent chasing up blind alleys and wasting people 's time . ’ |
| 2 | If George Bush or Saddam Hussein is secretly preparing to climb down , neither gives any sign of it . |
| 3 | And , gentlemen , I should like to say this also ; our Party if it is properly conducted has no reason to fear that the mass of the people in this country will not support it ( Hear , hear ) . |
| 4 | Whether this assumption is properly made depends ultimately upon one 's conception of meaning and on questionable premises concerning legislative intent . |
| 5 | He sounds a further note of caution : ‘ It is sometimes difficult to be sure you are sending your cars to be serviced at a garage that is properly equipped to deal with diesel vehicles and has appropriately trained staff . ’ |
| 6 | Though LMS is widely felt to have reduced the scope for staffing enhancement in primary schools , we believe it to be essential that schools retain the broader managerial repertoire which PNP has encouraged . |
| 7 | The domestic economies of the CIS , Great Britain and the United States are , to differing degrees , experiencing problems whose solution is widely acknowledged to lie beyond national competence . |
| 8 | THE birth of the topic of reproductive immunology is widely acknowledged to stem from a seminal paper by the late Sir Peter Medawar in 1953 , in which he recognized and addressed the immunological problems presented by the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates . |
| 9 | An Air India jet is widely presumed to have been emptive strike . |
| 10 | In contrast to white , black is widely employed to represent evil , terror , darkness , decay , the appropriate colour for mourning — a range of depressing associations perhaps ultimately deriving from the alternation of night and day ; we share these with the Ndembu and readily assume they are universal . |
| 11 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 12 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 13 | Suleiman Franjieh , the elegantly dressed ‘ excellency ’ who expatiated so eloquently on the back of the tourist map about Lebanon 's hospitality , security and stability , is widely believed to have participated in the machine-gun massacre of members of the rival Douaihy family near the town of Zghorta in 1957 . |
| 14 | Though the official death toll was given as 22 , it is widely believed to have been far higher and Xinjiang television showed footage of troops mutilated by knives , corpses floating in cesspools and burnt-out vehicles . |
| 15 | The name most associated with long-wave theories is Kondratiev , a Soviet economist , who is widely believed to have been the first to develop the theory . |
| 16 | A BBC Scotland task force last year is widely believed to have proposed greater autonomy for the corporation 's Scottish operations . |
| 17 | Tropospheric ozone ( not to be confused with the ozone layer ) forms when vehicle emissions react with sunlight and is widely believed to damage trees . |
| 18 | Chelmsford 's sixth gold medal was earned by Simon Bown , an unemployed 18-year-old who is widely tipped to get an international vest this Summer throwing the hammer . |
| 19 | The non-steroidal antioestrogen tamoxifen is widely used to treat breast cancer , predominantly in postmenopausal women . |
| 20 | Filtered blood is widely used to treat recurrent non-haemolytic febrile reactions in patients who depend on regular blood transfusions . |
| 21 | The outer conductor ‘ Coax ’ is widely used to carry radio . |
| 22 | In Zambia it is widely used to control termites and as a pesticide in maize fields . |
| 23 | Abraham 's story is widely used to justify the irrationality of faith . |
| 24 | This exemption is widely used to exempt the distribution of confidential material such as long form reports , business plans and investment memoranda to small groups of potential investors . |
| 25 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 26 | Yet the report is widely agreed to have very little that is tangible to say about how the UK 's environmental stategy is to be taken forward . |
| 27 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 28 | The move is widely expected to see the society — which is currently a tied agent of Standard Life for the sale of investments — reviewing the options for starting its own life-assurance operation . |
| 29 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 30 | It is widely expected to soar to 1m-2m this year . |