Example sentences of "[pron] is [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rigours of testing do not end next week as eight people , chosen by the Soviets and the British , will be taken to a Soviet hospital for further tests , the nature of which is as yet unclear . |
| 2 | One of the problems with laser techniques however is that often the first excited atomic transition — to the next available energy levels of the atom — corresponds to energies in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum , which is as yet inaccessible to lasers . |
| 3 | But if this pattern is widely adopted , here would be a dimension of democracy which is as yet hardly known at all in the officially democratic West . |
| 4 | I discussed the issue of neutrality in the previous chapter : the Commission has demanded that the Efta states agree in advance to abide by a common defence policy which is as yet unspecified , thus provoking some concern among the applicant Governments . |
| 5 | is there land between the current edge of development in York and the inner edge of the greenbelt which is as yet undeveloped ? |
| 6 | Around us in the middle distance , which is as near or far as anywhere else seems to get , lie other havens of plaster and flora . |
| 7 | She realizes that she is as yet too selfish to be truly creative and puts off her artistic endeavours for the time being so that she can first learn the more humble task of interpretation . |
| 8 | Here , then , are two more of the group of " preliminary studies " from which BT was to emerge ; and indeed a letter to Wagner later that year refers to " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in precisely such terms , as a Vorstudium , Whatever remains of the course on Oedipus Rex itself is as yet unpublished . |
| 9 | VISITORS to Belgium often sneer at the scruffy appearance of the country 's towns , farms and people , and pointedly note how much neater everything is as soon as you cross the border into Holland . |
| 10 | ‘ The Welsh Highland Railway has one of my units and another may be borrowed for ‘ Russell ’ in the future but that one is as yet in the very early planning stages . ’ |
| 11 | There is as well experience of identification of assorted beads according to shape , size and colour and ( maybe ) material — wood or plastic . |
| 12 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 13 | There is as yet no vaccine against HIV infection and no cure for AIDS . |
| 14 | There is as yet no way of explaining how objects are constructed out of events ; even less how the contrast between objects and events — one of the most pervasive features of everyday experience — is perceived . |
| 15 | There is as yet no word on who will play the part of Toole 's hero , the bloated medievalist Ignatius J Reilley , though earlier suggestions for the part have included the late Divine ( Waters 's idea ) and the late John Belushi ( the studio 's idea ) . |
| 16 | And although there is as yet no solid evidence that a political settlement of the Sikh question is in sight , the change of government has brought a new spirit of reconciliation on both sides . |
| 17 | And although there is as yet no solid evidence that a political settlement of the Sikh question is in sight , the change of government has brought a new spirit of reconciliation on both sides . |
| 18 | Its comments on various therapies for some allergies are : Homoeopathy : ‘ There is as yet no adequate evidence that any benefit is conferred . ’ |
| 19 | Second , there is as yet no land shortage , and new land can still be taken into cultivation without much problem . |
| 20 | As an indication of how far off implementation of a pan-European standard is , it should be noted that there is as yet no agreement on surface characteristics , dimensions , or permeability . |
| 21 | There is as yet no direct measure of endothelial damage in the intact animal . |
| 22 | There is as yet no vaccine to protect against all strains of meningitis . |
| 23 | There is as yet no generally accepted system of classification , and the method chosen should be the one most satisfactory to the individual researcher . |
| 24 | There is as yet no national service women . |
| 25 | There is as yet no general relativistic demonstration that a collapsing and rotating supermassive object of about 100 million solar masses can survive as a single coherent entity to become a black hole . |
| 26 | Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action . |
| 27 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 28 | There is as yet no vaccine against HIV infection and no cure for AIDS . |
| 29 | There is as yet no official glossary and to the outsider , the terms bear little relationship to the shapes , much more to the flip lingo of rock music . |
| 30 | Environmental liabilities are notoriously difficult to foresee and quantify , and there is as yet no experience under the Act to draw on . |