Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 In the future it is likely that an increasing number of services to schools will be contracted-out and any approach to whole-school planning must take this into account .
2 In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics .
3 Having seen the loan situation from both sides of the fence it is essential that a few rules are followed to keep the arrangement sweet .
4 Whatever his sins it is clear that a man subject to such fits of remorse would have been well aware that a crusade was a religious act as well as a great military adventure .
5 In 1970 President Nixon affirmed ‘ we are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro-freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion . ’
6 ‘ I have but one child who is stubborn and a liar , and that is Marie , ’ she would tell strangers or neighbours .
7 Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles .
8 In these circumstances it is essential that a direction is sought as the child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of providing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) .
9 There were seven more speeches which were all in favour of the proposal , so that it was no surprise that the following resolution was passed unanimously : In the opinion of this Conference it is advisable that a National Society should be formed , the chief objects of which will be the elevation , education , and social status of the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom .
10 With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate .
11 The most important exception is found in regulation 3(c) which permits an action to be brought under the newly amended s.62 by a person who is other than a private investor where there has been a breach of rules prohibiting insider dealing .
12 Some see the distinction in terms of a commission which is unlawful and an omission which may not be .
13 From this single example it is clear that an investigation , of the outside poses immense problems since there are so many outside factors to be taken into account .
14 Where subsequent to intimation of a claim it is clear that a Capital Sum Payment will be made , H.O .
15 Notwithstanding this early generation of gas it is likely that a major redistribution ( migration or trap-breaching ) occurred in late Cretaceous-early Tertiary times associated with the major inversion phase of the basin .
16 In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment .
17 In horizontal mergers it is possible that a merger will allow exploitation of economies of scale .
18 In both these examples it is clear that a major advantage of the simulation model is that answers can be more reliably obtained to questions such as ‘ how high should 1 build this bridge ? ’ or ‘ what would be the hydrological effect of building another 2000 houses in Edwalton ? ’ than if the engineer or planner were to rely solely upon rules of thumb or ‘ common sense ’ .
19 They are faster to search than binary trees ( Fredkin , 1960 ; Knuth , 1973 ) , and for this particular application it is apparent that a 26-way tree would be the most efficient structure in order to take full advantage of the alphabet .
20 In agricultural history it is evident that a macro-economic overview is necessarily limited because we have no usable index of agricultural rent over any considerable period .
21 In order to achieve this middle way it is important that a false polarization is overcome .
22 Mr Carr has told SNH it is essential that a statutory , general right of access is established , subject to necessary safeguards .
23 While it is impossible to either prove or disprove this estimate , as a matter of observation it is true that a high proportion of churches seem to attract ‘ their kind of people ’ .
24 Whilst the appropriate personnel and appropriate fee levels requiring authorisation from region to region it is important that a control mechanism exists .
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