Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if the patient is mentally unfit or is a terminally ill minor ? |
| 2 | The second difficulty factor concerns the nature of the answer — whether it is a whole number , involves a half or is a more awkward decimal . |
| 3 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 4 | Or is the carefully structured Arabian djinn world a remnant of some extension of communication which we once knew how to use and control but have now lost ? |
| 5 | There is thrust into their lives of monotonous tasks and grey streets an epic hour of colour and strife that is no more a mere matter of other men 's boots and a leather ball than a violin concerto is a mere matter of some other man 's catgut and resin . |
| 6 | Just to the north of the village there is a bridge over the Emme that is a particularly interesting example of the characteristic rural Swiss timber-built covered bridge . |
| 7 | This small branch — it has only 42 members — showed that something that is a little ‘ out of the ordinary ’ can prompt a very good public response to Wings Appeal . |
| 8 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 9 | We are prepared to adopt a system that is a little more complicated , provided that it is fairer and responds more to the wishes of the British public . |
| 10 | Colleagues , to promote a culture of health and safety , our starting point must be to establish a network of safety reps in the workplaces and we must have proper funds for training for all of our safety reps that is a most crucial part of the report . |
| 11 | The subject is able to constitute itself as an ‘ I ’ , an abstract , self-knowing subject , in an interaction that recognizes an ‘ other ’ that is a similarly formed subject . |
| 12 | And to my mind that is a fundamentally flawed planning strategy . |
| 13 | The other group were the physicians who felt that this was an unwarranted and unseemly intrusion of government into a relationship that is a very private and personal one , the patient-physician relationship . |
| 14 | Now , it happens that is a very controversial and highly questionable economic proposition . |
| 15 | By any standards that is a very significant sum . |
| 16 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 17 | But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope . |
| 18 | However , Beinn Alligin provides no such logistical problems and it 's a fabulous start to the walk up the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil through a forest , again passing close to some splendid waterfalls , before you veer off to the left and head towards the dauntingly steep corrie that is the most direct route to the summit . |
| 19 | Police officers often use racialist language ( among themselves ) for effect , but it is the more casual and automatic use of such language that is the most telling … racialist language is quite commonly used over the personal radio . |
| 20 | For us , the Ceramics Fair has always made money and for a dealer that is the most important reason to return year after year . |
| 21 | He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task . |
| 22 | The most complex trap of all , however , is the one that is the most familiar , the orb-web . |
| 23 | Several species of aphis attack waterlilies , but it is the true waterlily aphis that is the most devastating . |
| 24 | It is an exciting time for Douglas Reyburn which is undergoing a period of change that is the most significant in its sixty year history . |
| 25 | The financial upset is about six thousand pounds , but it' ; s the emotional upset that is the most disturbing thing |
| 26 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 27 | It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good . |
| 28 | Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter . |
| 29 | Consequently it is possible , even likely , that their observations may have a built-in bias that is the more confining because it is unconscious . |
| 30 | It offers a firm , well-controlled ride that 's a little noisy at low speed and thumps a bit over potholes , but it 's far from bone-shaking . |