Example sentences of "is [conj] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The problem , however , is that that reconstituted totality is never certain , its status always remains ambivalent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Union policy is that all new posts should be advertised and the process must be taken seriously . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The fact is that all developed societies undergo processes in which professions and occupations proliferate and become more specialised and we then have to evolve means of ‘ getting it all together again' , in this case , ensuring that the patient or client does not suffer as a result of our separate functions and roles . |
| 10 | It is that all young people under 18 who are not in full-time education or a job and who are seeking youth training are entitled to be offered and , if necessary , re-offered any number of times entry to a suitable YT programme and to receive such training . |
| 11 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 12 | The second reason why the CAP can not survive is that all practical considerations are subordinated to political expediency . |
| 13 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 14 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 15 | Our first rule is that all raw materials must be from a known and identifiable source . |
| 16 | Er we 're talking about er for example er NUPE have nine branches erm i i is that all Local Authority , Health Service er and the , the er Educational |
| 17 | The principal recommendation is that all listed companies registered in the UK should comply with a code of best practice for corporate governance . |
| 18 | The effect of the pre-enrolment registration of Stage I and of the term 2 registration of Stage II modules is that all subsequent minor changes are to an agreed , full programme . |
| 19 | Another factor which draws attention to remedies in relation to judicial review is that all judicial review remedies are discretionary . |
| 20 | The truth is that all sacramental thinking and language are symbolic , and precisely thereby , they work in a way not weaker but actually stronger than the way the naive realist calls ‘ real ’ . |
| 21 | The term has , however , wide application and because of the difficulties in isolating investment business as defined by the FSA , our policy is that all corporate finance work must be carried out in accordance with the ICAEW 's Recognised Professional Body ( ‘ RPB ’ ) rules for investment business . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I was just thinking what a pity it is that all good-looking men are such beasts , ’ she said , with more real feeling than she intended . |
| 23 | Halliday 's view is that all linguistic choices are meaningful , and all linguistic choices are stylistic . |
| 24 | Another reason is that little empirical evidence is available on the potential gains of coordination , because existing multi-country econometric models pay insufficient attention to the supply side , volatility of exchange rates and the international mobility of capital . |
| 25 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 26 | The likelihood is that such spare syntactic structures appear very infrequently as independent forms in actual use . |
| 27 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 28 | The key to ethnomethodological and phenomenological interpretations of ‘ doing ’ routine ( qua ordinary ) police work , is that such interpretative processes and practices are employed in a routine ( qua taken-for-granted ) manner . |
| 29 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 30 | The main difficulty is that such heavy feeders are easy to overfeed and are capable of quickly fouling the aquarium water . |