Example sentences of "is [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | since the poles of this function are given by where p is any integer including zero , which is equivalent to rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane reveals that the transfer function to be provided is or Two reactive components are needed to achieve second-order response and so the relevant low-pass filter in conjunction with the load resistance R is as shown in figure 12.2(a) . |
| 2 | fifty eight it is or nineteen sixty three geographical facts |
| 3 | I have not attempted to use quantitative techniques or ( with one exception ) statistical analyses , believing that the close inspection of conversational data can tell us more about what " London Jamaican " really is than any quantitative approach . |
| 4 | A second reason is that wider economic consequences may be better dealt with by other branches of economic policy : for example , regional policy can be designed specifically to deal with localized unemployment problems , R&D policy to deal with the promotion of R&D and the protection of intellectual property rights . |
| 5 | The answer is that greater corporate profits may be made by releasing assets by sale of machinery , land and buildings , and by investing them in another sector ( e.g. offices ) , or by building or re-equipping another , substitute factory elsewhere . |
| 6 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 7 | The argument is that serious sexual assaults , and the attitude of many men towards them , derive from a male-dominated approach to sexuality in which aggressive sexual behaviour by males is praised or condoned whilst women are associated with passivity . |
| 8 | The ‘ conservative ’ estimate of one bank is that 55 billion dollars wafted northwards from Latin America between 1977 and 19836 . |
| 9 | The common sense of their argument is that higher public spending raises interest rates and attracts capital inflows , which in turn raise the demand for sterling and therefore the exchange rate . |
| 10 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |
| 11 | The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows . |
| 12 | The emerging consensus is that one serious crime in three ( excluding burglary and car theft ) is reported to the police . |
| 13 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 14 | So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it . |
| 15 | Patently the present situation is working and therefore that 's part of it and what I would say is that that this additional policy if it is n't necessary because there there is n't any development pressure , then what is its purpose . |
| 16 | The problem , however , is that that reconstituted totality is never certain , its status always remains ambivalent . |
| 17 | One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that . |
| 18 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 19 | The best hope is that all 4,650 observers will be in place by April 20th , three weeks too late . |
| 20 | The plan is that all second year trainees will be placed within employers . |
| 21 | The only difference is that all that acting , all that recording , all that boring , frightening flying to gigs gave her the cash to fulfil that dream . |
| 22 | Even among lawyers , the belief is that all that 's needed to change the situations is the will . |
| 23 | is that all that was ? |
| 24 | Union policy is that all new posts should be advertised and the process must be taken seriously . |
| 25 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 26 | Ultimately , it does not matter very much what arguments are used to reject evidence : the point is that all possible post hoc arguments must be marshalled to defend one 's position against other scholars : the more arguments that can be used , the better . |
| 27 | The danger is that all Twelve risk making themselves equally irrelevant , even when crises erupt on their own doorstep . |
| 28 | What is easily overlooked is that all such work is based on a series of unstated assumptions whose validity has never been examined . |
| 29 | ‘ The decisive factor on this issue , oppression , in my view , is that all such burdens upon [ the appellants ] in complying with the order are plainly and comprehensively outweighed by the reasonable requirements of the administrators upon the facts of this case to have access to the documents listed in the order . |
| 30 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |