Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the mouse 's body , of course , the poison that made it so easy to catch is still present and can cause serious damage to the unfortunate cat . |
| 2 | Even if the software designed is genuinely original and useful , there is a danger that scholars become hooked on the production of software . |
| 3 | Answer guide : When the earnings process is substantially complete and payment is reasonably certain . |
| 4 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole superstructure of the society considered is thus implicit and present in a specific way in the relations of production , i.e. in the fixed structure of the distribution of the means of production and economic functions between determinate categories of production agents . ’ |
| 6 | INTO Northern Secretary Frank Bunting said : ‘ The evidence the Minister wants is now overwhelming and he should stop procrastinating . |
| 7 | ( Appendix 1 — the Code ) : the Code as presented is very clear and straightforward , with a suitably informal style . |
| 8 | The manner in which this has been done is most inept and we now have the situation where some sections of the 1988 Act are different depending on whether they are being applied to semiconductors or other designs . |
| 9 | The planning permission granted is obviously fundamental and its precise terms are therefore very important and require careful reading . |
| 10 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 11 | And though the yield of about 5 p.c. is historically high , British companies ' earnings cover is unusually thin and the growth prospects commensurately modest . |
| 12 | The extent of evidence gathering will need to be sufficient to ensure that each statement made is factually correct and that the valuation opinion is properly supported . |
| 13 | I explained to the House why I believe that the forecast that I have made is both cautious and realistic . |
| 14 | Magistrate Caroline Thornton-Berry told him : ‘ To steal is always wrong and despicable but to steal from people who love you is particularly low . ’ |
| 15 | SAVE 's MOST CELEBRATED and prolonged battle has been to stop the demolition of the important triangle of Victorian buildings in the heart of the City of London that includes Mappin and Webb , Mansion House and the Bank of England . |
| 16 | The inspection is similar to that carried out for the Structural Survey , however because the report is in a standard format , the information conveyed is more concise and limited in order to identify the more important defects , bearing in mind the property 's type and age . |
| 17 | A certificate to this effect from the person representing the petitioning creditor in the following form is normally acceptable : I certify that I have/my firm has made enquiries of the petitioning creditors(s) within the last business day prior to the hearing/adjourned hearing and to the best of my knowledge and belief the debt on which the petition is founded is still due and owing and has not been paid or secured or compounded for ( save as to … |
| 18 | The case of Nicholson v. Revill is one of the many instances in which this rule of law has been applied , and the reason upon which the rule is founded is as clear and plain as the rule itself . |
| 19 | In Crohn 's disease , however , where the mononuclear cell infiltrate is both transmural and patchy , the neutrophils are mainly centred around ulcers and show little evidence of the activation that occurs on contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 20 | A spokesperson told NME : ‘ The stuff they 're selling is unbelievably shoddy and the T-shirts wash out after two or three washes . |
| 21 | Would Mrs agree that the resources argument that she 's just used is completely fallacious and would she not accept er that it 's better to spend fifty thousand pounds |
| 22 | The actual amount of pitch used is quite critical and controls the ‘ glide ’ angle . |
| 23 | The most substantial and recent discussion of the poem is that of Michael Swanton ( 1987 ) , where the terminology used is amply clear and quite typical . |
| 24 | Also Eismark 's only sixty-odd and that 's a mere youth in the GDR . |
| 25 | From this he argued that , since only the present ‘ is ’ , it follows that past and future are alike meaningless , the only time is a continual present time and what exists is both uncreated and imperishable . |
| 26 | An American edition of Streamline is also available and some schools use this as well as the British edition according to the needs of different classes . |
| 27 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 28 | This process of filtering and condensing is both practical and intellectually useful since it forces you to reduce the bulk of words and yet preserve the essential meaning of the text . |
| 29 | The easily identifiable tartan mark is your guarantee that the salmon you are buying is genuinely Scottish and produced in accordance with a stringent set of quality standards , enforced by Food From Britain inspectors . |
| 30 | Do n't look like that — I know it 's horrid , having to take people 's money , but we 've got to live , and what we 're going to do is absolutely honest and above-board . ’ |