Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately everyone else will be doing the same thing and if one end is blatantly favoured then it is likely to be crowded . |
| 2 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 3 | Critics of these views on the other hand insist that the public interest is properly served only where companies pursue the traditional goal of profit maximisation . |
| 4 | A belief held by a number of software designers is that if the software is properly designed then there should be no need for an emulator ; it should work first time . |
| 5 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he argues that the term case has ‘ unfortunate medical overtones ’ , but it emphasizes individual focus , and is widely understood internationally . |
| 7 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 8 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 9 | This system may exploit water at temperatures of between 60 degrees centigrade and 12 degrees centigrade and is widely used today in France , USSR , Hungary , Iceland and many other locations . |
| 10 | The steel industry is a suitable sector for comparative analysis because its produce and processes of manufacture are similar among producing regions and output is widely traded internationally . |
| 11 | Advanced manufacturing technology is widely put forward as holding out the opportunity to change the competitiveness of businesses . |
| 12 | Navy News is widely read both inside and outside the service and achieved a circulation of 100,000 in the mid-1980s . |
| 13 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 14 | Not very serious , the plant grows on unharmed , new growth soon takes over , and the damaged foliage , while a little unsightly , is eventually cleared away by dead-heading and cutting back . |
| 15 | Moreover , a true recalibration of the biliary stenosis after longterm plastic stenting is rarely achieved even after insertion of multiple 10 French plastic stents . |
| 16 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 17 | What is rarely stated openly but constantly implied is that the younger generation should be less negative because they know better ; they are university educated men . |
| 18 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 19 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 20 | Involvement of the spermatic cord , epididymis , or testis by infection can lead to sterility , but , again , this complication was much more common before the last World War and is rarely seen today . |
| 21 | This unnatural practice is rarely seen today . |
| 22 | Finally , catatonia , in which the person enters a state of total physical immobility , is rarely seen nowadays . |
| 23 | The great visionary poet and artist , is rarely seen indeed and so it is a special treat to have before our eyes , at Salander O'Reilly , a selection of over thirty watercolours , drawings and paintings by the master . |
| 24 | The crucial factor of associational appositeness relating a symbol to what it symbolizes is rarely seen directly and explicitly , although heraldry is replete with such purpose-built symbols . |
| 25 | But they were not the greatest : the mechanical acoustic early warning device of Alexander Graham Bell ( his first essay in telecommunications ) is rarely heard nowadays . |
| 26 | This particular investigation is rarely performed nowadays but can still be useful in cases of treatment-resistant urethritis . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , environmental considerations often play a subservient role to economic and political expediency and the concept of long-term sustainability is rarely attributed more than cosmetic attention . |
| 28 | The loaf was very large , flat , brown-crusted , open-textured , a pain de ménage , the real household French bread such as is rarely produced nowadays in restaurants and inns . |
| 29 | The view expressed by health economists such as Alan Maynard is still one which is rarely articulated quite so starkly : ‘ We have to demonstrate much more clearly that the spending involved in care for elderly people is spending which is efficient . |
| 30 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |