Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession . |
| 2 | Machine code is tedious to write but is the foundation on which all other software systems sit . |
| 3 | In configuration control systems this is an extremely difficult and dangerous thing to do and is the root cause of many manual systems failing . |
| 4 | The Oxford ring road is beginning to ease as is the A forty this evening . |
| 5 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 6 | One of the factors limiting our understanding is that , with few exceptions , we can never have a macroscopic single crystal to study as is the case with metals or ceramics . |