Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 2 | The normal justification thesis states that accepting authority is justified only if it improves one 's compliance with reason . |
| 3 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
| 4 | To turn the grinder on , the switch is eased forward until it clicks downwards . |
| 5 | Although not closely related to other river dolphins , the tucuxi is included here because it shares a similar habitat . |
| 6 | This is not arbitrary — it is designed so that it operates just as well with colour-blind predators as with those that have good colour vision . |
| 7 | Artificial lenses of this shape are optically poor , but a fish 's lens is designed so that it corrects these aberrations , achieving a quality of image with a single lens which camera manufacturers are still trying to match . |
| 8 | The Code is drafted so that it does not impose any obligations on the parties to a takeover and their directors which would place them in conflict with their legal duties . |
| 9 | In patients with this type of depression , their critical period is advanced so that it falls during sleep . |
| 10 | The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received . |
| 11 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 12 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 13 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 14 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if a question is asked exactly as it appears here and you give an answer which has clearly been prepared in advance and learned off by heart you will not be very convincing . |
| 16 | It is simmered slowly after it has been soaked and is usually coated with breadcrumbs before it is sold . |
| 17 | However , the issue is discussed here as it does to a certain extent relate to customer and supplier contracts that are being assigned . |
| 18 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 19 | ( 7 ) If the scheme is structured so that it does not involve a transfer of shares it is possible to avoid stamp duty ( see para 2.4.3 above ) . |
| 20 | I have talked about interpretation which is accommodating so that it yields implications for language teaching . |
| 21 | The d.c. supply voltage ( V5 ) is chosen so that it produces the rated winding current ( 1 ) when applied to the total phase circuit resistance , which is equal to the sum of the phase winding ( r ) and forcing ( R ) resistances : In general the phase winding has a considerable inductance , so its natural electrical time constant ( inductance/resistance ) is long . |
| 22 | Secondly , I would point out that it is unusual for the Committee to be able to assert with confidence that legislation which is changed so that it conforms to their views , was changed solely because of these views . |