Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It reflects a despising of ‘ primitive ’ peoples which is still all too familiar to us .
2 The questions must avoid ambiguities which is not as easy as it might seem , it is desirable to obtain several opinions about the interpretation of each question from the same kind of people as those who will be in the survey .
3 This in no way is meant to lessen the significance and importance of help which we have received from our other supporters which is very much appreciated .
4 In these latter roles She is almost always accompanied by Her divine spouse , the male God , emphasizing the fact that only in a happy marriage can the terrible and destructive aspect of the Goddess be controlled .
5 I would disagree with the premise erm I 've found that where public money is involved in the arts there is very occasionally public criticism of what we do .
6 This means that the individual items in each notebook can rarely be dated with any precision and that notes in one notebook may , and often do , presuppose plans in another ; even within single notebooks it is not always possible to determine whether items in a sequence belong together .
7 In most psychiatric units it is now usually considered inappropriate to have one member of staff constantly accompany a patient at risk .
8 In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes .
9 The recording , made in the Faculty of Music at Cambridge University , is rich , warm and clear : in other words it is just about ideal .
10 And not just because as teenagers it is no longer that easy to keep them safely by your side .
11 With terms expressly agreed by the parties it is not always so easy .
12 Another thing is of course it 's all pets it is n't just dogs and cats .
13 Primary teachers normally teach English as part of an integrated curriculum , whereas in secondary schools it is more usually taught in timetabled slots by subject specialists .
14 What comes across in both my interests and any skills which is n't really reconcilable with this I do n't think is that erm I 've got sort of , because of , I think it 's cos of my academic experience cos I did an arts degree with a lot of research and stuff , is that I , I like researching , data collecting , processing information .
15 It 's one of those human activities which is not crucially important .
16 Geographical distance is a barrier to face to face meetings which is maybe why a network such as this is particularly attractive to teachers working away from centres of population .
17 I think I 've got five minutes which is probably more than some of you delegates have got so I 'll keep it fairly short and sweet .
18 The family Ophiolepidinae can be distinguished by : both oral tentacle pores arising within the mouth ; the plating of the disk is usually conspicuous with large plates ; and the shape of the dental plates which is twice as long as broad and rounded at both ends ( Murakami , 1963 ) .
19 One of the excursions which is slightly out of the ordinary is to the Ice Caves at Dachstein , where you are guided through a twilight world of amazing ice formations .
20 Houghton ( 1980 ) gave a method for staining plagioclase and alkali feldspars which is much more reliable than previous recipes .
21 James Macdonald 's searingly-acted production gives us Kathryn Pogson as Sandy , an elegant collection of angry bones who is even more frightening than Joe the husband who punches and kicks her , then tells her to take off her clothes .
22 For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship .
23 For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column .
24 In middle-class areas there is obviously much more spare cash to give to schools .
25 In these areas there is often not enough wind to drive the bigger wind generators ; they require a minimum seven knots before they turn .
26 Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way .
27 But , the critic may sense , in some subject areas it is simply not appropriate to expect students to form a view of their own .
28 But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly .
29 In cross-linked thermosets like epoxy resins the molecular weight between cross-links is about 500 , while in rubbers it is very much greater ( of the order of 10 000 ) .
30 This may be an acceptable technique for reading science fiction or a romantic novel , but for the study of important texts it is not only inappropriate , but also damaging to study and uneconomic of time .
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