Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 2 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 3 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 4 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 5 | I know that some knitters prefer to work from a written patter , where everything is explained in full throughout the whole pattern . |
| 6 | We have a get rich quick philosophy where everything is geared to maximum profits . |
| 7 | Pynchon 's characters are constantly driven by the impulse to locate themselves within larger schemes which would authenticate their own experience , but waver between the appalling extremes of total randomness ( where no pattern is discernible ) and paranoia ( where everything is subsumed into pattern ) . |
| 8 | Note , too , that nothing is said within such analyses about forms of middle-class racism — the discussion pivots around a simple polarization between a ‘ ruling ’ and ‘ working ’ class . |
| 9 | Reliance is placed upon the statutory duty of the Independent Broadcasting Authority to ensure that nothing is transmitted on the commercial airwaves which is in bad taste or is likely to prove offensive to public feeling . |
| 10 | You get the feeling that nothing is left to chance . |
| 11 | Mr George Ryde , TGWU national secretary for civil aviation , said : ‘ Our members are involved in almost every aspect of airport work , and they tell a different story to the public relations myth that nothing is spared in providing passengers with maximum security . |
| 12 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 13 | Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard . |
| 14 | Although nothing is known of his family or education , Berthelet was clearly a man of intelligence , culture , and enterprise . |
| 15 | His Danish border with Germany , and evident desire to emulate its rulers , must have stimulated mutual contact , although nothing is known of relations with the emperor Henry II ( 1002 – 24 ) . |
| 16 | If your wedding guests are not seated in a reception hall but milling around a hotel or house your problem is to ensure that everyone is gathered in the right place at the right time to hear the speeches . |
| 17 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 18 | It also presumably requires chordal instruments to realize the continuo in the two vocal airs , although none is mentioned in the livret . |
| 19 | Now that one is bound to be sixty , the the angle at the centre , because that was how we made it . |
| 20 | Does Schüssler Fiorenza mean that one is inspired by these women , although the religion in which they were involved is sexist ( in which case one is inspired to act against the biblical God ) ? |
| 21 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
| 22 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 23 | Behaviour which involves assimilation of the subject matter , attitudes , and values of the foreign language and culture to the point that one is identified by them . |
| 24 | Then , before each execution of the add instruction , we arrange to manipulate it as data in such a way that one is added to the address portion of the instruction ; thus the add instruction refers successively to store addresses 100,101,102 , and so on . |
| 25 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 26 | This book begins with the statement that everything is based on energy , provides simple box models of energy flows in ecosystems and so embraces both cultural and natural components . |
| 27 | It is far better to have fewer rules which you can insist your children keep than to insist that everything is done in accordance with strict regulations . |
| 28 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 29 | It seems to me that everything is balanced on a knife-edge . ’ |
| 30 | A second problem with the idea that everything is determined by a grand unified theory is that anything we say is also determined by the theory . |