Example sentences of "[be] [verb] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is one of the most significant and important respects in which the recession from which we are recovering is different from all previous recessions .
2 The information we are gaining is essential in developing more realistic models . ’
3 Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years , the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties .
4 The green left sleeve brassard carries a red-on-yellow rampant Lion of Scotland patch , which we are told is special to the CO and his crew .
5 As with repayment loans , the interest you are paying is eligible for tax relief ( see under MIRAS on page 25 ) .
6 This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood .
7 A warehouseman with whom goods have been deposited is guilty of no conversion by keeping them , or restoring them to the person who deposited them with him , though that person turns out to have had no authority from the true owner . ’
8 It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject .
9 Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style .
10 But though everyone acts for himself , his knowledge of what others are doing is supposed to be generally sufficient to prevent him from taking a lower or paying a higher price than others are doing .
11 Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) .
12 A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house .
13 The average number of casting faults which had to be repaired is well over twice as high in the alloy heads as in the copper ones .
14 That such a choice between working emotionally or technically can be made is useful for teachers to be aware of .
15 But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual .
16 If it requires that the person to be taxed is resident in the United Kingdom that condition of residence would not be satisfied if one or more of the trustees is not resident in the United Kingdom .
17 The question of how goals are to be met is independent of the statement of the goals themselves .
18 It is extremely easy to exceed these bounds when specifying a program , and so it is essential that a programmer experienced in the particular system or systems to be used is involved in the initial design discussions .
19 The time period that funds can be invested is critical in maximizing the returns from investments .
20 When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' .
21 It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces .
22 Free advice on the law relating to badgers and on how farm damage caused by badgers can be tackled is available from the ADAS wildlife biology units .
23 In particular , the significance of the small number who say their work has been deskilled is open to question .
24 Much of the work which is being undertaken is dependent on government funding and , of necessity , is required to provide material which fits current political philosophy .
25 If the probability of being included is equal for each member of the relevant population then the sample is said to be a random one .
26 are the ones estimated in January 1985 , the method being employed is similar to that of the Laspeyres index described above .
27 He sees that the grandiose , monumental scale on which the universe is being planned is wrong in itself , even apart from the physical risks it will entail .
28 The rise in the number of rectal isolates of N gonorrhoeae in men reported for England and Wales in 1990 is not attributable to an increase in the number of reporting laboratories , and the marked shift in the male to female ratio of cases from which these isolates were obtained is unlikely to be caused by changes in the catchment population .
29 Toffler interprets Irangate as , ultimately , a conflict between the presidency and Congress over information : being informed is essential for either to control foreign policy .
30 The number of new books being published is relevant to funding needs .
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