Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supply of money is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and is not influenced by changes in national income or in interest rates . |
| 2 | The following chapter considers the various policies which have been proposed to deal with regional imbalances and is then followed by a study of inner cities . |
| 3 | Indeed , the refurbishment of the 220 building results from AEA 's commercial considerations and is not necessitated by Ministry of Defence contracts . |
| 4 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 5 | It is important that this works well for records to ensure retrieval across media and different sources and is not derived from data management methodologies alone . |
| 6 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 7 | At least in Marx 's usage , ideology is a part of the structure of social relations and is not overcome by an individual who adopts a materialist account of history . |
| 8 | Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica . |
| 9 | Flagelliflory , the presentation of flowers on long peduncles , occurs in several unrelated groups and is generally associated with bat pollination , but a whole family of plants in a wide range of habitats in tropical America has all its species bat-pollinated with the flowers projecting above the canopy ; namely the Caryocaraceae . |
| 10 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 11 | The former will reappear in chapter 5 in relation to investigations of glaciers , for example , and the latter is the reason for interdisciplinary cooperation that has been stressed in the preceding pages and is further developed in chapter 8 . |
| 12 | The assessment , against which the parent can appeal , seeks to identify a child 's specific needs and is then used as the basis for eventual school placement . |
| 13 | The distinction between the Japanese profiles highlights the very marked tendency to reward length of continuous employment in large firms and is closely related to their much higher rates of union membership . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal itself is , subject to limited exceptions , bound by its own previous decisions and is always bound by decisions of the House of Lords . |
| 15 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 16 | Sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades and is best used from a salt mill as a condiment . |
| 17 | It often stands motionless in pools for long periods and is easily watched from a car or hide . |
| 18 | The IPG 's task of informing every bureau of the social security changes in 1988 demonstrated many of its key issues and is therefore used here as a case study . |
| 19 | It is a paired structure which occupies most of the cerebral hemispheres and is also called the neopallium . |
| 20 | ‘ mode ’ crumbles in beautiful ruins but is not replaced by any sense of ‘ key ’ . |
| 21 | The policy for science and technology has been developed in tandem with the new Labour government 's economic and industrial policies and is generally considered part of any plans for national recovery and reconstruction . |
| 22 | The extreme reductionist approach that is represented in the above quotation , and is apparent again and again in his writings , not only in The Origin of Species but in many of his later books , is conspicuous by its absence from early plant ecological texts and is barely represented in the ecological literature until towards the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Designed by the Regent Belt Company Ltd , the flask holds six fluid ounces and is beautifully covered in mahogany-coloured leather . |
| 24 | As he explains , ‘ where the resulting self-definition , for personal or collective reasons , becomes too difficult , a sense of role confusion results : the young person counterpoints rather than synthesises his sexual , ethnic , occupational and typological alternatives and is often driven to decide definitely and totally for one side or the other . ’ |
| 25 | It is available in granular form , in various sizes and is usually used in deep beds , sited as near as possible to the odour source and can be obtained as a charcoal cloth . |
| 26 | It would be possible to add to the system indefinitely until every one of the recorded parameters that is normally displayed on an instrument in the cockpit of an aircraft was reproduced in this way . |
| 27 | Which means the kind of film that is not financed by the major American companies and is sometimes thought of as art rather than commerce . |
| 28 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 29 | It is the domestic courage and creativity of the poor in the most adverse circumstances that is usually emphasized . |
| 30 | The conditions which encourage attack are moisture and lack of good ventilation , but the common furniture beetle , the House Longhorn , thrives in dry internal conditions and is often found in skirtings , door frames , pelmets , under stairs and around trap-doors . |