Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [coord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this arrangement is the same as that of the mentor programmes ; it is to demonstrate in a consistent way that someone cares about , is interested in and encourages the school and its students in their work . |
| 2 | The woman who is fearful of or has an aversion to sex at 30 , unless some remedial circumstance intervenes , will be still more so at 70 . |
| 3 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
| 4 | The view of to taken here also accounts for the impression of what Riddle ( 1975 : 467 ) calls " control " which one often feels with the to infinitive , i.e. the implication that the matrix event is responsible for or affects the complement event ( cf. the difference between Jane forgot to be cautious and Jane forgot that she was cautious ) . |
| 5 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |