Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 2 | Moreover , ‘ structural ’ relations between them can be clarified , by showing for instance that this computation is or is not a necessary prerequisite or accompaniment of that one . |
| 3 | personal tax , so the full tax is payable if there are two or more people in the household , while half the tax is payable if the property is empty or is not a sole residence . |
| 4 | The only ground of refusal ( against which there is a right of appeal under s.45 ) is that the transferee is , disqualified from holding a licence or is not a fit and proper person to hold a canteen licence ( subs . |
| 5 | Although such examination might improve the drafting of the rule books — and that would be ( procedurally ) beneficial — it could have the unfortunate and fundamental consequence of inducing tribunals to determine what is or is not a fair dismissal by reference to what has been agreed between the parties instead of by the yardstick laid down by Parliament . |
| 6 | If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult . |
| 7 | Frequently , however , the imposition of standards reflects a judgement that important externalities exist or is simply a pure value judgement based on distributional considerations . |
| 8 | It is a measure of success , not in the commercial sense of the word but an exploration into just why The Smiths connect with so many and whether that connection invokes a solid and lasting influence or is simply a mere fad . |
| 9 | Whether this statement rests on a factual basis or is simply a reasonable hypothesis it is once again impossible to tell . |
| 10 | Its job is to decide whether some change in activity in a cell reflects the presence of such an event or is simply a spontaneous change unrelated to function . |
| 11 | Inside , the triforium is often omitted or is just a decorative band , while the nave arcade is of great importance . |
| 12 | With respect to BACKUP , the safest way to handle the use of pseudo-devices , especially if you may be mixing saves and restores on physical devices and pseudo-devices , is to always place yourself in the [ 000000 ] directory ( whether it physically exists , or is only a notional location , as is the case with a pseudo-device ) and use the syntax [ * … ] |
| 13 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
| 14 | If you eat the right foods and take some exercise you will begin to understand and know your body better and you will be able to discern something that is just a muscular ache from carrying heavy shopping from a pain that you have never encountered before . |
| 15 | In patients with this problem who are elderly and in poor general health , other methods of stone fragmentation such as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy or biliary stenting without stone removal may be safer alternatives than either surgery or enlargement of a sphincterotomy that is already a reasonable size . |
| 16 | At the moment that is not a future anyone is prepared to consider in the happy valley of San Joaquin . |
| 17 | In general , anything that is not a basic entity is either a feature of such an entity or in some way depends upon such entities for its own existence . |
| 18 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 19 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 20 | I think the poem ‘ The Send Off ’ has distinct similarities to ‘ Futility ’ apart from the fact that is also a lyrical poem . |
| 21 | However , note that Squigs will attack any model that is n't a prodder-armed Night Goblin … so any character with the unit will have to be placed at the back to be safe ! |
| 22 | So if you have a cold starter and dessert and a main course that is either a one-pot meal , like a casserole , or a roast , where the oven temperature can be adjusted to cope with delays in starting , then you should avoid disasters . |
| 23 | We describe 3 patients in whom primary , symptomatic HIV-1 infection was associated with severe immunosuppression and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia , an opportunistic infection that is usually an AIDS-defining disorder . |
| 24 | Irena drove me to the station , past the monastery that is now a military hospital , along the main road north where tanks rumble across at night . |
| 25 | Beyond the bridge at Shafford Mill , with its redundant depth gauge , is a dam for a trout pool that is now an empty bowl . |
| 26 | Many of the in-house executive recruitment and search people are paid only relatively modestly and in many cases that is unfortunately a fair reflection of their ability . |
| 27 | The next claim which constructivism makes is that centralsystem thinking emerges out of the organism 's interaction with the environment , an interaction that is initially a literal inter- action but which is later carried out internally , at least in the human case . |
| 28 | Indeed it is used , in 26 of its 27 occurrences , literally ; in the other case , " The highway of the upright is to depart from evil " ( Prov 16.17 ) , we have the impression that the metaphor is freshly minted for the occasion , and there can be little question that is typically a literal road . |
| 29 | And shock tactics : The drink-drive cure that 's not a soft option . |
| 30 | In fact that 's essentially a worth-while sort of . |