Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 200 per cent increase looks huge but the base on which it is calculated may be small . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the basis on which the rent is calculated may itself be changed through a change in the composition of the index . |
| 3 | Thirdly , the base figure upon which the index is calculated may be updated . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the way in which past pecuniary loss is calculated will not be dealt with here . |
| 5 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 6 | Practical considerations aside , the visual aspect must be carefully accommodated , for , even with a small area of water , the position in which it is placed can make or mar the garden . |
| 7 | Whereas to invade a pitch when a goal is disallowed may be felt magically as a way of reversing the referee 's decision . |
| 8 | Which it is recognized will thereby lose the benefit of the initial negative presumption unique in planning . |
| 9 | What Jenkins is suggesting would also have the wider benefit of bringing the leading clubs and the Welsh Rugby Union into the same camp . |
| 10 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 11 | In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence . |
| 12 | A few days later , the Stock Exchange announced details of the working party which it is intended should lead the debate over the future capital raising needs of smaller companies , including a possible successor to the USM . |
| 13 | The convention establishes procedures for the transport and disposal of toxic waste , and insists that the country for which the waste is intended should agree to receive it before it leaves port — an effort to avoid incidents such as the 1988 voyage from port to port of the Karin B. Environmentalists have criticized the convention for its lack of " teeth " — enforcement is left to individual countries — and for its lack of precision on what constitutes acceptable disposal standards . |
| 14 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 15 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 16 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 17 | The extent to which this potential is developed could have implications for other clients and for developing anti-discriminatory practice . |
| 18 | The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly . |
| 19 | The lack of response to iron treatment or the recurrence of anaemia when iron treatment is stopped may be an indicator of the need for further colonic assessment and requires formal evaluation . |
| 20 | Only if a building is listed can this significant premium on construction costs be avoided , although the majority of disused churches which are offered for conversion are of ‘ listed ’ status . |
| 21 | The National Curriculum may introduce a greater degree of consistency in respect of subject content , but quality in the way such content is treated will only be achieved if the anomalies at the various levels — LEA support , school curriculum management and development , classroom provision — are attended to . |
| 22 | And the way this leap into motherhood is treated must play a large part in determining the future happiness of the woman and her family . |
| 23 | I oft converse with those she 's deem 'd to grace |
| 24 | Any that is exposed can be taken out and sold for scrap . |
| 25 | This derives from the long established principle that the risk to which a guarantor is exposed can not be altered in any material way without his prior consent . |
| 26 | The trainee will carry out his or her normal job and the manner and competence with which the work is undertaken will be assessed by a departmental head or supervisor [ in a bigger company ] or , in a smaller establishment , perhaps by a visiting college lecturer acting as an assessor . |
| 27 | The linking of a church having good resources and experience with another which is struggling could provide a useful and manageable means of learning , and both churches would derive benefit from it . |
| 28 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 29 | The form in which knowledge about language is communicated will vary with the age and ability of the pupil , from play activities in pre-school to explicit systematic knowledge in upper secondary education . |
| 30 | It seemed to us illogical that patients who stop breathing before irreversible brain injury is diagnosed can become organ donors , whereas clinically identical patients who become apnoeic after diagnosis can not . |