Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , enhancing pupil achievement is seen to spring from a more coherent approach to curriculum , assessment and teaching method , seen as an integral whole , and that this is most likely to arise when a school has developed more sophisticated self-monitoring that leads to holistic forward planning , of which INSET is an inherent feature . |
| 2 | The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude . |
| 3 | When using this definition the results of conventional designs seem so good that it is effectively impossible to show that a new design is significantly better than conventional ones . |
| 4 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 5 | It is only necessary to add that a consistency checking procedure is also called . |
| 6 | Within the Duomo there is so much to see that a full inventory is impracticable . |
| 7 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 8 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 9 | It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful . |
| 10 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 11 | If on the other hand the consequences are neutral or unpleasant , then the behaviour is less likely to occur and an alternative will be found . |
| 12 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 13 | If you overdo it , the model will merely slip sideways , which is much easier to control than a tail down reversal into the ground . |
| 14 | A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) It is generally acceptable to state that an offer will not be made for a particular period of time . |
| 16 | It is always difficult to judge whether a government is better off , in terms of parliamentary safety , with a large or a small majority . |
| 17 | In fact , although this passage sounds rapid and colloquial it is still easier to analyse than a full-speed conversational interchange . |
| 18 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 19 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 20 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 21 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 22 | Presumably , this is more likely to happen when a small number of tablets is involved but the poor correlation between medical seriousness of an attempt and suicidal intent ( Fox and Weissman 1975 ) would indicate that this practice should not be encouraged . |
| 23 | But the Murray committee is probably right to say that a minimum five-year experiment with a four-day game programme is now due . |
| 24 | There is something rather incongruous about a helicopter performing a roll , yet , given a suitable model , it is probably easier to do than a loop . |
| 25 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 26 | It is probably true to state that a country must achieve sustained increases in real GNP per capita to avoid social and political tension . |
| 27 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | It is also simpler to construct than a linked list mixed-method . |
| 29 | Graduates , whom Smith classed as gentlemen , and men of £10 a year were privleged to dress like their betters ; it is also reasonable to infer that a sizeable proportion of those who feature in the various returns as minor landowners were in effect ex-officio gentlemen , qualified by tenure of lesser public appointments . |
| 30 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |