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

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1 The pattern of /Ε/; lowering in these ‘ short ’ environments is extremely well established : as table 4.9 , p. 111 , shows , it is categorical in some inner-city male groups .
2 Choice of research methods is often decisively affected by choice of topic , and the amount of time , money , and work hours available .
3 In one style of play , what happens within these signals is very consciously made to resemble , as far as possible , what happens in everyday rooms and everyday behaviour and conversation ; yet the signals hold , this is still a play .
4 How bats avoid being jammed by other bats is not well understood , but an interesting clue comes from experiments on trying to put bats off .
5 There was some interruption of access to printed books while the new fire detection and alarm system was being installed in those areas where rare books are housed , and any inconvenience to readers is very much regretted .
6 The picture they paint of themselves as readers is much more distanced .
7 The simplicity and pleasing symmetry of the trades is suddenly quite destroyed by the influence of the Asian land mass and its monsoonal — seasonal — climate .
8 The technical question of how far the biological continuity between man and other animals is already fully understood is complex .
9 Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide .
10 The precise role of these proteins is not yet known , but is the subject of intensive investigation .
11 It is precisely in such circumstances that the imposition of obligations upon third parties is most strongly resisted .
12 The area of site control is complicated by the fact that the partner or manager of the job has not only to control his own staff and their performance , but also has to ensure — on behalf of his client — that the work being done under his direction by third parties is also properly progressed .
13 The ochlospecies is not readily explained , however , while apomixis is another phenomenon to be taken into account .
14 Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ .
15 The production of single words is easily enough described in the context of the information-processing model developed in Chapter 6 .
16 What I was Pat is five thousand words is really too bit a bite you know if you really want people to criticism off it , you wan na break it down into sort of two thousand word chapters really .
17 The Crowther Committee called these categories ‘ connected ’ and ‘ unconnected ’ loans , and that shorter though more arcane form of words is still widely used .
18 Pre-election talk about cutting off thieves ' hands and stoning adulterers is no longer heard .
19 Among the areas of technical interest is the evaluation of GIS software when used with zonal datasets , particularly since this form of information is far more common in the social sciences and ‘ the real world ’ than are the digital mapping and remote sensing datasets for which GIS is most highly developed so far .
20 In what manner the ensuing sacrifice and suffering benefits the protagonists is never satisfactorily explained .
21 Estimating comparative levels of per capita GNP between various nations is probably best done by assessing relative levels of purchasing power — what a currency will buy in the country in which it is issued , using comparisons between particular products .
22 However , communication with users and clients is not necessarily helped by the use of formalism .
23 They are about recognising the reality of the problem and taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the well-being of both staff and clients is not unnecessarily put at risk in having to deal with such situations .
24 The tradition for diesel cars is far better established on the Continent and that is where the best buys come from .
25 Sunburst Books is no longer represented by ABS distributed by CBS .
26 Re-negotiation of steps is very commonly required since theoretical assumptions of difficulty are often not mirrored by experience in practice .
27 The preparation of good quality , innovative and integrated course materials for case study and workshop sessions is still hugely demanding of staff time .
28 But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with
29 The pathophysiological importance of the ulcerative colitis associated perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies is still poorly understood .
30 On the contrary , the story in the Gospels is often utterly divorced from all historical context — a narrative of stark , timeless , mythic simplicity enacted in a sort of limbo , a never-never-land of long ago and far away .
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