Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [conj] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 2 | Similarly , the notion of independence is stressed and is seen as ‘ essentially an attitude of mind characterized by integrity and an objective approach to work ’ ( para . |
| 3 | This is a notion often based in part upon perceptions of what is happening or is felt to have already happened in other countries , and the most widely used comparison is drawn with the USA in mind . |
| 4 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 5 | If any member of the council or any nominee of his is a member of a company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made , or is a partner , or is in the employment of a person with whom the contract is made , he has an indirect pecuniary interest which he should disclose . |
| 6 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 7 | Problems arise where consent to an assignment or agreement to novation is sought but is refused . |
| 8 | National income , when received by households , is either spent on home-produced or imported goods , or is saved or is taken in taxes : the national income can therefore be written as |
| 9 | No amendment or other variation shall be effective unless it is in writing , is dated and is signed by or on behalf of both parties . |
| 10 | No amendment or other variation shall be effective unless it is in writing , is dated and is signed by or on behalf of both parties . |
| 11 | No amendment or other variation shall be effective unless it is in writing , is dated and is signed by or on behalf of both parties . |
| 12 | The software is menu-driven and is split into three main elements : client database ; fee/client ledger ; and time ledger . |
| 13 | An additional pane of glass 9.8 inches square is needed and is placed inside the tank to restrict the movement of the fish is necessary . |
| 14 | For it can happen that more cloth is produced than is used , and , as a result , also more machines , iron and coal than is necessary . |
| 15 | More recently , Bloch 's work ( 1975 ) on political language and oratory has provided evidence of ways in which speech is formalised and is used for functions which Goody attributes solely to writing . |
| 16 | Nic has flu , is exhausted and is sulking , pouting and staring blankly in the corner . |
| 17 | In Section 6.1 the covariant derivative is introduced and is found to depend on entities called metric connections which quantify how local vectors change when they are transported through curved space–time . |
| 18 | The Registrar advises that if the data user is satisfied that the child understands what he is asking and is acting on his own volition his request must be obeyed . |
| 19 | Are you , you saying that things could get worse now that erm communism is gone and is going to become even more impoverished . |
| 20 | The purpose of evaluation is discussed and is followed by a brief description of the targets , scope , methods , and timing . |
| 21 | In many discussions of such issues consent is invoked and is understood to mean , roughly , the following : a person consents to an outcome if he performs an action which he believes to make that event more likely . |
| 22 | A Register of Econometric Software is maintained and is published regularly . |
| 23 | At each stage in the cascade information about the retinal location of the input is lost and is replaced with information about the properties of the stimulus object until , at the highest levels in the system , the identity of the object or objects is encoded . |
| 24 | As a result of all this , opportunity-thinking is neglected and is left to individual entrepreneurs who have to answer to nobody but themselves . |
| 25 | The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land . |
| 26 | This gives the glider pilot more time to find out why his glider is semi-stalled and is sinking like a brick . |
| 27 | The cholesterol is released and is incorporated into the cell 's internal membranes . |
| 28 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 29 | Currently the building is dismantled and is stored at Bo'ness awaiting the day when the rebuilding operation can begin . |
| 30 | A false statement in a brochure is made when the brochure is published and is made again ( or alternatively , continued ) when read at a later stage in an uncorrected form by a member of the public . |