Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [adj] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
| 2 | It is this strong contrast between the two parts which is so important to maintain whether the dances are in demi-caractère or character ( authentic ) style . |
| 3 | CLE said it will prepare a report for a client who is then free to decide whether or not to act on it . |
| 4 | So far in the book , everything is quite likely to happen as it did . |
| 5 | There is further protective distancing if the exploration of emotions is placed in a historical , fantasy , or SF framework . |
| 6 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 7 | Apart from the problems of precisely delimiting areas that are experiencing desertification , it is equally difficult to determine whether or not rates of desertification are increasing . |
| 8 | It is simply necessary to ask whether the matter the whether the land is open land or not open land . |
| 9 | In deciding this it is not necessary to consider whether members of the public who are knowledgeable about the product are deceived , it may be sufficient if members of the public who have very little knowledge of the product concerned are likely to be deceived , see J. Bollinger v Costa Bravo Wine Co . |
| 10 | Today , when reclamation is carried out with the use of expensive mechanical equipment , it is not profitable to start until a strip , 200 m or more in width , is ready . |
| 11 | Similarly it is not possible to negotiate if a client has clear rights in a situation . |
| 12 | At this time it is not possible to predict whether all or just part of the above listed data will be required by the public registry , or whether the public registry itself will be a part of a larger commercial registry that would include other trade and secured transactions . |
| 13 | It says it is not possible to predict when loading standards can be met . |
| 14 | Though the inhibition of absorption induced by the α-glucosidase inhibitors is the primary phenomenon , under the present experimental conditions , it is not possible to estimate whether the acceleration in the intestinal transit time contributes to carbohydrate malabsorption by reducing the contact time between the intestinal contents and small intestinal mucosa . |
| 15 | It is not possible to judge whether the social context or the people studied are in any way typical , or representative . |
| 16 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 17 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 18 | On the basis of these observations , it is not possible to say whether or not one of these tests provides a more useful assessment tool than the other . |
| 19 | So , until the decision is made again , it is not possible to say whether the loss would not have been suffered but for the illegal decision . |
| 20 | It is not possible to say whether a substantial report is more likely to make an impact than a slim report . |
| 21 | His successor was his cousin , Eadberht , the brother of Archbishop Ecgberht , but it is not possible to say whether his powerful relatives brought pressure to bear on him to resign . |
| 22 | It is not possible to say whether the apparently symbolic objects had any sacral meaning , although the story of Merovech 's birth provides some reason to think that the authority of the Merovingian kings in this period may have been bolstered by pagan tradition . |
| 23 | ‘ Until that investigation is complete it is not possible to say if any prison rules have been breached . ’ |
| 24 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 25 | As Merton ( 1957 : 141 ) sees some corporate misbehaviour , ‘ it is not easy to say whether it is an instance of praiseworthy salesmanship or a penitentiary offence ’ . |
| 26 | Whereas a glider on the upwind side of the launch line may be out of danger , it is not safe to launch until any glider on the down wind side of the cable run has been moved . |
| 27 | It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous . |
| 28 | It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way . |
| 29 | Inspection of Tei and Owen 's Tables I and 3 reveals that the laterality effect was greater for " same " trials but it is theoretically important to know whether there was any significant interaction between stimulus type and visual hemifield . |
| 30 | It is here irrelevant to decide whether the Roman generals learnt how to cry from their Hellenistic opposite numbers just as they learnt from them how to write autobiographical letters on their victories . |