Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] [noun sg] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 2 | Especially with print media , where there 's so much space to fill that you constantly need things to talk about . |
| 3 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 4 | For some the holding of one of these posts was just one stage in their careers , for others a succession of such posts appears to have become a career in itself , though one must be careful to emphasize that there is not enough evidence to suggest that there was in the case of the muderris/muftis anything like as clearly defined a career structure as in the case of the muderrises and the kadis , that there was , in effect , a comparable to the and the . |
| 5 | As Italy 's financial year closes at the end of the calendar year and money can not be held over from one year to the next , there is not enough time to distribute and use such funds as have been allocated . |
| 6 | There is just enough flexibility to arrange that at P and in addition that the first derivatives of the metric components vanish . |
| 7 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 8 | There 's not much time left and a great deal we still do n't know . ’ |
| 9 | It brings him into joint second place with Jackie Stewart in the league table of grand prix victories , but there is still some way to go before Senna matches the 44 won by Alain Prost , the man the media love Senna to hate . |
| 10 | There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations . |
| 11 | Producers say there 's still some way to go before they can operate on level playing fields |
| 12 | erm There are fewer administrative staff to deal with , really , more problems , in a way , because though we have fewer students than we did before , there 's still more work involved and we ca n't , we do n't , we no longer have a planning period . |
| 13 | There is also little evidence to show that farmers welcome an opportunity to become glorified park wardens or landscape gardeners — nor , indeed , have they the necessary skills to do so . |
| 14 | There is also some evidence to suggest that there is little variation by social class in the amount of practical support given and received . |
| 15 | There is regrettably little evidence to support or to challenge this . |
| 16 | It is here that condensation forms unless the space is ventilated — which it hardly ever is . |
| 17 | The next case is even more implementation orientated than the last . |
| 18 | There is indeed some evidence to suggest that children recognize ambiguity in messages at a threshold ‘ below ’ the level of language . |
| 19 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 20 | It is quite another thing to suggest that it is therefore proper to place higher burdens of proof on defendants , and to restrict the presentation of the defence . |
| 21 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 22 | Here is yet another idea to help if you are having problems in getting your vision of the future right . |
| 23 | Alternatively , visual estimation using a comparator can be used , a procedure which is considerably less time consuming and much easier , although such estimates may lack accuracy . |
| 24 | Further , there is very little evidence to suggest that R&D spillovers seriously undermine incentives to invest in R&D , partly because own and rivals ' R&D is often complementary and partly because many firms must invest in R&D in order to be able to benefit from spillovers . |