Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're dead right , closing down a service of this kind is controversial and very difficult and has to be handled very sensitively . |
| 2 | This definition of works of art is controversial and so are the exclusions . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that so many studies of disability and rehabilitation use " return to work " as the end point since it is definite and usually unequivocal . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing is definite as yet . |
| 5 | Apart from the need to reduce delays in the investigation of complaints there is no more important issue than the need to ensure that serious misconduct is met with suitable sanctions , and that the costs of disciplinary proceedings should , so far as is practicable and just , be borne by those who cause us to incur those costs . |
| 6 | Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry . |
| 7 | ‘ Art is not a slave to fashion , but is eternal and always contemporary . |
| 8 | It is not necessary because section 6(3) ( b ) is capable of being given full effect without any such implication : it applies where a school is under-subscribed and yet seeks to refuse certain applicants who have expressed a preference for that school : Parliament has indicated that if spaces are to remain unfilled because of admission criteria such criteria have to be agreed with the local education authority . |
| 9 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 10 | She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever . |
| 11 | The first and obvious need is to turn the knowledge that HIV is alive and all too well , from the outset of infection , into a workable assay of the progress of disease . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mrs Atkins , your husband is alive and perfectly well . ’ |
| 13 | But for most of us our native tongue is alive and constantly shifting . |
| 14 | It is alive and ever changing , constantly in a state of flux — and often flowing away from us . |
| 15 | The professional literature on violence is extensive and usually refers to a complex interaction of factors which have to be taken into account to explain its occurrence . |
| 16 | The interior is spacious and finely proportioned though the illumination level is low on account of the slit-like fenestration ( 461 ) . |
| 17 | Kelly is bionic but still very young . |
| 18 | ‘ In accordance with good building practice ’ is a phrase often used in specifications , but it is indefinable and therefore open to interpretation . |
| 19 | However , local residents of Barton and Sandhills say the scheme is unnecessary and too costly . |
| 20 | He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep . |
| 21 | The entrance is dry but soon becomes low , developing into a crawl where the stream from Lower Long Churn is admitted . |
| 22 | When the cake drum is dry and hard , paint the surface with diluted blue , green and yellow food , colourings to give a subtle sky effect . |
| 23 | In such poems as ‘ Break of Day in the Trenches ’ , ‘ Returning We Hear the Larks ’ , and his masterpiece , ‘ Dead Man 's Dump ’ , Rosenberg succeeded in his intention of writing ‘ Simple poetry — that is where an interesting complexity of thought is kept in tone and right value to the dominating idea so that it is understandable and still ungraspable . ’ |
| 24 | The distinctive sensitivity towards the antique that occurred in Italy is understandable because even today wherever one walks one is bombarded by fragments of ancient sculpture , remains of buildings and inscriptions , reminders of Rome 's grandeur . |
| 25 | It is clear that the power of the company is political as well as economic . |
| 26 | The importance of class is political as well as social . |
| 27 | ‘ The rest , I must say , is confusing but very interesting for me . |
| 28 | And this is confusing , I mean I must admit it is confusing and even , even s writers in the psychoanalytic literature get confused by this , because sometimes they , they er do n't see that to some extent the two systems are overlapping and to some extent they 're about di slightly different things . |
| 29 | Negative power is destructive and potentially very damaging to organisational efficiency . |
| 30 | You have to suffer the officials ' hostility and their slow , interrogative assessment of your visa 's validity , but the contrast between old and new is acute and strikingly pertinent to the state of Romania today . |