Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most versatile paper is perhaps the 140lb weight , because it is strong enough to handle traditional watercolour techniques and a reasonable amount of water , yet it is moderately priced . |
| 2 | It is pointless just taking more money from motorists if they are not also given real incentives to reduce their use of cars . |
| 3 | In order to do so it is necessary also to consider demand-side factors . |
| 4 | In order to create a single market , it is necessary either to harmonise all domestic laws , in order to have a common regime throughout the Community or for member states to recognise each other 's requirements as legally equivalent . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 6 | But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification . |
| 7 | To change the amount of data passed between sub-programs it is necessary only to modify some code in the sub-program bodies , not the sub-program specifications , and to modify the declaration of the record itself . |
| 8 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 9 | The statement by Adam Smith that businessmen 's meetings , even for ‘ merriment and diversion ’ , usually end up in connivance to restrict competition , is often quoted , but the sentence which follows it is equally perceptive : ‘ It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings , by any law which either could be executed , or would be consistent with liberty and justice . ’ |
| 10 | It is useful here to replace these terms by terms whose use we can control more carefully . |
| 11 | Since then things have improved markedly and it is rare now to see such howlers as the Wirral Globe 's explanation of a 16K RAM as a chip with ‘ up to 16 000 different uses ’ . |
| 12 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 13 | It is easy enough to say all this . |
| 14 | It is easy enough to identify opposing terms or attitudes in a text , but how does one decide whether or not they are balanced or reconciled ? |
| 15 | It is easy enough to calculate this as a percentage of sales and to show that costs have gone up not only absolutely but relatively . |
| 16 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 17 | It is possible nevertheless to draw several conclusions about the general range of structures and their relative importance in the small towns . |
| 18 | It is not clear what this means , but it is possible today to observe mid-front values of /a/ before all or most consonants in many rural west of Ireland dialects . |
| 19 | The modified cyclodextrin distinguishes between ( - ) -ephedrine and the other three diastereoisomers so it is possible selectively to discern varying amounts of this isomer . |
| 20 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 21 | It is possible inadvertently to apply direct selection to the characters whose correlated responses are of interest . |
| 22 | it is soft enough to clean broken or damaged skin ; it is intrinsically very clean and thus appropriate to use . |
| 23 | It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue . |
| 24 | It is difficult logically to claim that Scottish — or Welsh — devolution would undermine national sovereignty , while at the same time preparing to surrender national sovereignty . |
| 25 | He himself thought The Confidential Clerk to be his most profound play , but it is difficult now to see this . |
| 26 | It is difficult now to imagine this square without the powerful bronze of Jan Hus gazing upon his church with his followers holding the chalice which was so significant in his religious arguments ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 27 | Although anecdotally , sphincterotomy has been suggested to improve pain , it is difficult currently to justify such an approach outside the context of controlled trials , particularly as spontaneous resolution of pain occurred in a number of our patients . |
| 28 | And although the head count of ‘ nation states ’ within that organisation is increasing by the year , it is unlikely ever to encompass all the 4,000 or so distinct peoples that UN-sponsored studies have identified as existing in the world . |
| 29 | It is tempting always to produce all the information that can be extracted by a particular statistical technique . |
| 30 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |