Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 2 | ‘ The Government is badly mistaken if it thinks it can take the heat off itself with an inquiry meeting in private , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 4 | When the adsorbent becomes saturated with odour molecules its adsorptive capacity is greatly reduced and it becomes necessary to regenerate the adsorbent , usually by treatment with superheated steam . |
| 5 | In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value . |
| 6 | The world is a patch-work of different colours : the animal is only camouflaged if it settles in the right place . |
| 7 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 8 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 9 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 10 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 11 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 12 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 13 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 14 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 15 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 16 | Enforcing such a duty against a person who refuses to pay damages is morally justified because it implements the moral rights of the defamed . |
| 17 | Currently , the NHS is much criticised because it does not have a comprehensive inventory of its fixed assets . |
| 18 | The dislike of enquiry desk duty , because of its boredom , is thus compounded because it involves dealing with these sorts of incident . |
| 19 | That these two expressions relating to are equivalent is easily verified since it requires or The validity of this last relation is best seen by appreciating that , according to equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) , the characteristic impedances obey and Making use of equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.5 ) and writing the ratio as u , it follows from equations ( 9.3 ) and ( 9.4 ) that the transfer function of a T or Π-section of the form of ladder filter under consideration is given by In general u and hence will be complex and it is helpful at this juncture to put where γ is known as the propagation constant . |
| 20 | ( Notice that we have not included the possibility of uninitialised variables within normal form programs , since no bound variable is ever read until it has been input to . ) |
| 21 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | The project also shows Europe is still divided when it comes to food . |
| 23 | This none-too-creditable story is probably included because it forms part of the family-tree of the ( later ) royal house , from which the Messiah himself was descended ( Matthew 1:3 ; Luke 3:33 ) . |
| 24 | Its body is clearly segmented but it has very many fewer divisions than the millipede . |
| 25 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 26 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 27 | Though the Report could be interpreted as advocating an exchange rate union , it is now accepted that it recommends a currency union . |
| 28 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 29 | The situation is equally blurred when it comes to the fund managers . |
| 30 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |