Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that the complex pattern of symptoms could not be a consequence of just one or two loci of damage within the normal reading system , and Morton and Patterson ( 1980 ) have offered an interpretation in which the disorder is explained as occurring when a number of different loci in the normal reading system are all damaged . |
| 2 | Duress invalidating consent to a contract is regarded as occurring where a party has been imprisoned or threatened with , for example , imprisonment , or violence , or harm to reputation , or criminal prosecution of a spouse . |
| 3 | For this purpose , expenditure is treated as incurred when the obligation to pay for the asset becomes unconditional . |
| 4 | Oral aspirin is difficult if the patient is nauseated and vomiting and the opiate given to relieve pain may delay gastric motility . |
| 5 | If , however , the register is not at either end of the excitation sequence list it is incremented or decremented when the instruction at SHIFTX is executed . |
| 6 | Chief executive , Tim Cordy , is reported as saying that the enforced break up of the Council meant that there was no longer a " national voice for nature " . |
| 7 | Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period . |
| 8 | The electronic spectrum of nickel cytochrome c , for example , is interpreted as showing that the nickel atom is six-coordinated , rather than four coordinated . |
| 9 | In poor countries there may be enough food for the whole population but it is exported or hoarded because the people can not pay for it . |
| 10 | It is possible that an individual 's echolocation system is impaired or disrupted when the whale is close to gentle sloping sandy beeches . |
| 11 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to avoid seeking out and using information that is confidential if it is known or suspected that the information will be a crucial aid to survival for your company in the future . |
| 13 | The sperm is stored and frozen until the second negative test result is confirmed . |
| 14 | Timing for the outbound leg is defined as starting when the aircraft is abeam the holding point , or when the outbound heading is reached , whichever comes later . |
| 15 | ‘ it is contended that to hold that a municipal corporation may maintain an action for libel would unduly encroach on the right of the public to speak freely concerning municipal affairs . |
| 16 | A representative from the Ricardo Group , a UK based engineering consultancy , is quoted as saying that the new regulations represented " one of the greatest challenges facing the truck industry " . |