Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wistful Lady is most attractively performed and an excerpt from The Dynasts ( ‘ Napoléon and Joséphine ’ ) was relatively new to me . |
| 2 | Capture is most readily achieved if the Moon and the Earth approach each other at fairly low speeds . |
| 3 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 4 | Option 1 is most usually chosen if the illumination intensity has been changed , in which case the exposure will need to be recalculated . |
| 5 | The fear that teachers and the ideas that the hold can inspire in totalitarian governments is most graphically demonstrated when the debate of classrooms and lecture halls hits the streets . |
| 6 | Inevitably , perhaps , the contralto Jard van Nes is rather closely balanced but the positioning of the boys ' voices and women 's chorus are well judged . |
| 7 | But today , latest tests show Philip 's kidney is only badly bruised and the 14 year old should make a full recovery . |
| 8 | It is not quite as wide for damage to the plant whilst in transit between sites , whereas such damage is only now covered provided the reason for removal is ‘ cleaning , renovation or repair to other premises ’ . |
| 9 | Although the rail journey involves a change of trains , the timetable of services is so well co-ordinated that the change is no great inconvenience . |
| 10 | Foods that do not sustain microbial growth , such as bread , or raw produce which is so heavily contaminated that the bacterial loading on a surface is insignificant , are not likely to require handling on disinfected surfaces . |
| 11 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 12 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 13 | This kind of good news is so often overlooked because the challenges presented by the developing world do not diminish , indeed they seem to grow , climate change , wars , famine , rising populations , are some of the many complex causes of underdevelopment . |
| 14 | It is less freely admitted that a perfectly normal man may be sexually attracted by a girl of , say , 10 or 11 years . |
| 15 | A revision exercise set within an environment indicates which variables or considerations are pertinent , whereas in true problem-solving , the environment is less well defined and the identification of pertinent information is a difficult aspect of solution . |
| 16 | However , the matter is less clear cut where a party uses typed precedents drawn up by its lawyers as a basis for starting negotiations . |
| 17 | Most women would agree that if only minimal pain relief is used the birth is much more focused and the baby may be better off too . |
| 18 | Erm it 's quite important from the next thing that he talks about is er ex abolishing exorbitant levies , obviously he says as the country is not yet unified and the authority of the imperialist and the warlords have not been overthrown there is as yet no way of removing the heavy burden of government taxes and levies on the peasants . |
| 19 | Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there . |
| 20 | It is not yet known whether a claim in tort can be framed in terms of loss of chance . |
| 21 | Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides . |
| 22 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 23 | It is not yet known whether the dormant bacteria can return to the infectious state . |
| 24 | Although it is not yet known if the H2T cell line expresses TGF α , these findings go some way to support the hypothesis proposed by Korc and others that TGF α may have a role as an autocrine growth stimulator in pancreatic cancer . |
| 25 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 26 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 27 | Travel is not well represented and the books are general ; " Imperial Guide to India , " " Wonders of the World , " " Peacock on " Canada , " Sir C. Wilson " Picturesque Palestine " and F. Gregson " Letters from Ceylon . " |
| 28 | Its formation is not completely understood but the fact that it is better developed on loose stones than on rock pavements and that there is frequently a well-developed band extending from an inch or two below the surface to just above the ground surface , suggests deposition from solutions derived from the soil by capillary action . |
| 29 | The marriage is not finally dissolved until the decree is made absolute ; thus , transfers of property in the period between the decree nisi and the decree absolute from husband to wife incur no inheritance tax liability . |
| 30 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |