Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | may be delayed when dementia sufferer lives alone , or is not well known in the community ( eg crowded city areas ; living in multi-storey blocks , or has recently moved to a new area ) . |
| 2 | And for at least one parent , there was an awareness that sometimes children 's sense of justice can be hurt by parents not taking some of the blame : ‘ If a kid arrives late for school , or is not properly dressed , then that 's not the kid 's fault , it 's the mother 's fault , or whoever got them out in the morning . |
| 3 | This might seem to show a strong awareness on their part of the workings of power : it is relative power that determines what is or is not socially valued . |
| 4 | One either is or is not legally entitled to an American passport , or to benefit from a will ; difficulties , if any , crop up in satisfying the qualification . |
| 5 | Section 1(5) prohibits an individual who has contemplated or who is contemplating making a take-over offer for a company in one capacity from dealing in the shares of the offeree in another capacity if he knows that the information relating to the fact that the offer is contemplated or is no longer contemplated is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 6 | If the equipment in a playground needs repairing or is n't firmly fixed to the ground , or if there 's a lot of rubbish and broken glass lying around , do n't hesitate to notify the authorities . |
| 7 | These results strongly suggest that NO is , or is very closely associated with , the non-adrenergic , non-cholinergic neurotransmitter mediating neurogenic relaxation of the human internal anal sphincter . |
| 8 | Just as conjectures will be considered bold or otherwise by reference to the relevant background knowledge , so predictions will be judged novel if they involve some phenomenon that does not figure in , or is perhaps explicitly ruled out by , the background knowledge of the time . |
| 9 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
| 10 | Catherine Lee is an artist who has surely not exhibited so extensively nor is so well known as her painter-husband , Sean Scully . |
| 11 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 12 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 13 | Further evidence comes from the fact that the chromosomes are littered with old genetic text that is no longer used , but which still makes recognizable sense . |
| 14 | In the discussion of Chaucer 's Reeve 's Tale in Chapter 4 of this book , however , we shall find an argument that this sort of " measure for measure " reading has sometimes been imputed by modern critics to texts in a way that is neither strongly supported by the text itself nor an enhancement of the reading of the text . |
| 15 | There are degrees of life and the highest is the one that is most fervently lived . |
| 16 | Both the silver and golden orfe make good pond fish , but it is the golden kind that is most frequently encountered . |
| 17 | First , this is achieved by recognition of the CH1 domain , the portion of Fab that is most highly conserved . |
| 18 | It is the area that is most often relegated to the ‘ we 'll do that when there 's time ’ list and , when it is undertaken , it is in forms that are threatening , unrealistic , irrelevant , time consuming and unused . |
| 19 | To this end , we must inculcate in our students not only enabling skills such as fluency in English , particularly written English , IT competence , and the ability to communicate but also creative , problem-solving skills — the phrase that is most often used is ‘ transferable skills ’ — which include a willingness to engage with new concepts and techniques . |
| 20 | It is the ITV network that is most obviously threatened by Pearson . |
| 21 | If any part of your house has a flat roof that is clearly poorly insulated , you can tackle the problem from above or below . |
| 22 | That flavour of Remote Procedure Call is however very different from one that is already widely implemented by users of Sun Microsystems Inc 's Open Network Computing system . |
| 23 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 24 | Step 3 Eliminate from your list any item that is not strictly related to job performance . |
| 25 | Experience is one intangible factor that is not easily priced , so what value do you put on 62 years of pest control operations , on the problems solved for 120,000 U.K. customers , on trouble-shooting in 40 countries from Iceland to New Zealand ? |
| 26 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 27 | This cover , called mulch , can be peat , compost or even material that is not well rotted ( see question number 21 on page 168 ) . |
| 28 | I think the most important thing is to try and find that gap in the market that is not well trodden by a lot of other people — to find something which you can do which is different from all the rest of them . |
| 29 | ( Indeed , the concept of " the state " is one that is not well entrenched in English consciousness . ) |
| 30 | But it will deploy the laws of physics in a special way that is not ordinarily discussed in physics textbooks . |