Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [adv] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ban is sufficiently wide to be capable of applying to the officer who conducts the suspect to the parade , the mischief at which the provision is obviously aimed is the risk of contact between the identifying witness and the officer involved in the investigation . |
| 2 | Because the amount at which the liability is initially recognised is reduced , compared with more conventional accounting , the finance charges over the term of the debt are increased , and would normally be similar to those which would arise on an issue of non-convertible debt . |
| 3 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 4 | Another possible way of resolving the difficulty where the sole evidence is that the defendant was actually fighting is to say that , in the course of the fight , there is a series of threatening gestures , each one of which constitutes a fresh offence . |
| 5 | It is implied here that however destructive they may be , the actions of a noble man can not involve sin and that the apparent passivity to which the hero is eventually reduced is actually his highest activity . |
| 6 | The importance of organising a maintenance and repairs service has already been mentioned in Chapter I. The knowledge that there is someone on call if the machine is n't working is very reassuring . |
| 7 | But the critical thing with I twelve as the policy 's currently drafted is that it is location specific . |
| 8 | Well no , the money has , the assessment will be paid for what , what the surveyor is actually saying is the actual recommendations and comments and that in the environmental |
| 9 | What the miracle is really saying is that the blind man recognises Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 10 | The wit is really astounding is n't it . |
| 11 | The importance of considering the task which the subject is actually performing is made clear by the difference in results obtained from studies using different tasks during the arousal manipulation . |
| 12 | Therefore , if the assumption that the speaker is actually cooperating is to be preserved , some informative inference must be made . |
| 13 | The pain the City is now feeling is too easily brushed off as a short-term punch in the stomach from the economy . |
| 14 | The number of intervening sentences in which the item was not mentioned is one obvious variable , but more interesting would be the effect of such discourse boundaries as a change of scene , where a whole set of items can be assumed to enter the consciousness of the addressee , presumably pushing out old ones . |
| 15 | In other reports , however , these findings are actually incorporated into a project or programme — although whether those parts of the project are actually implemented is another matter . |
| 16 | In Stones [ 1989 ] 1 WLR 156 ( CA ) , Glidewell LJ said that : " The mischief at which the section is clearly aimed is that if a burglar has a weapon which he intends to use to injure some person unconnected with the premises burgled , he may nevertheless be tempted to use it if challenged during the course of the burglary and put under sufficient pressure . " |
| 17 | What results when the option is not exercised is not in any sense preordained , except by the terms of the option contract itself . |
| 18 | The current basis for determining whether or not a person is mentally handicapped is the IQ test . |