Example sentences of "is [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nor particularly heavy on the controls , but it does tend to fishtail at bit , due to the massive engine up-front and a relatively small fin and rudder at the rear . |
| 2 | The only stipulation is that both hot and cold water should be fed from the same header tank — the unit must not be connected direct to the mains cold water supply . |
| 3 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 4 | The take-home message here is that both Th1- and Th2-stimulating vaccines have the potential to be protective . |
| 5 | The reality is that both public and private sector companies are part of the nation 's assets … . |
| 6 | What can be confirmed is that both national and local women 's suffrage groups took an interest in the dispute . |
| 7 | What is less well-known is that rather similar effects may happen with a blow on the forehead which does not penetrate . |
| 8 | The most important point is that rather flat-lying arrays can be generated by feasible mixing models despite the involvement of a plume endmember with fairly high Nd . |
| 9 | The final step in very recent years is that already existent cultural representations , in pop music , have come to accompany the images . |
| 10 | The theme underlying much of this work is that broadly satisfactory , and reasonably simple , models exist for the huge variety of nonlinear optical processes which have been discovered since the advent of the laser : there is optimism that nonlinear optics can similarly provide simple systems showing the full range of chaotic behaviour . |
| 11 | In dogs , one of the symptoms of the disease is that normally peaceful and friendly animals become ferocious biters , foaming at the mouth . |
| 12 | The problem is that normally potential purchasers have to incur the expense of undertaking surveys and arranging mortgage finance , without any idea whether they will be able to afford the final selling price . |
| 13 | The basic problem with this shift is that previously free NHS services have become means tested services along the way . |
| 14 | The final point is that internationally increasing wealth has increased the demand for animal produce . |
| 15 | One of the strands of that concept is that even rational thought may not be just what it seems on the surface . |
| 16 | But what is interesting is that even die-hard sexists have had to change their argument in defence of traditional usage . |
| 17 | The experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) is that even imprudent or reckless credit use rarely on its own produces serious debt problems . |
| 18 | The point being that the more detailed the categorization of the restrictions becomes , the more likely it is that qualitatively different kinds of restrictions will emerge . |
| 19 | Not only is that generally helpful in being a recently approved structure plan that 's been through the Secretary of State 's hands , but of course it is also part of this region . |
| 20 | Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends . |
| 21 | The point argued here is that characteristically German bourgeois identity was fundamentally bound up with statist ideology . |
| 22 | The hope is that unusually fruitful conferences such as this one , in which a course in the basics of immunology preceded seminars on the latest developments , and in which the participants in most part came from areas badly affected by the disease , will show us the way forward . |
| 23 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
| 24 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 25 | One concern with any meta-analysis is that statistically non-significant studies are less likely to be submitted for publication and hence that the results of combining published studies is biased towards a positive effect . |
| 26 | One is that relatively lengthy questionnaires can be used to increase the quantity or detail of information obtained . |
| 27 | The most important point is that relatively complicated life habits can be inferred from a careful consideration of the anatomy of even the simplest looking animal , particularly when there are related , similarly adapted animals for comparison . |
| 28 | Although the theory is that all important power is concentrated in the hands of the state , this has not meant that the individual has been regarded as powerless . |
| 29 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 30 | What is certain , however , is that currently English teachers are being urged by the majority of voices in their midst to concentrate upon encouragement of their pupils ' creativity . |