Example sentences of "[is] [verb] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 2 | The appropriate design of the underlying surface ( substrate ) on which the antibody is immobilised is crucial in achieving greater control . |
| 3 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 4 | Part of the process of analysing discourse in terms of ‘ topic ’ is an attempt to make explicit the basis for our intuitive ability to recognise why what is said is appropriate in a particular discourse fragment . |
| 5 | Of course , any plan that is made is liable to be disrupted by supervening events , but at least there will be a plan and a more systematic approach to the management of the project . |
| 6 | While proteins themselves are synthesized in the cytoplasm , whether or not a protein is made is dependent on whether or not the gene that contains the information for that protein is active ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | The manner in which the word-structure knowledge is applied is dependent on the output produced by the character recogniser . |
| 8 | The structure which is selected is likely to be a compromise between environmental pressures which pull in opposite directions . |
| 9 | What is seen is consistent with the interpretation that nine W particles of mass about 80 GeV were produced , and that these then decayed into electrons ( or positrons ) and neutrinos . |
| 10 | In realist cinema what is seen is privileged over what is heard . |
| 11 | The total pay which is reckoned is subject to a limit which is reviewed annually . |
| 12 | National income will then fall until the value of what is produced is equal to the value of aggregate demand . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that what he is saying is crucial to the livelihood of thousands of people in my constituency . |
| 14 | Of course , the question of how the identity of objects is coded is separate from the issue of whether object recognition is localized to these high levels of the visual system at all . |
| 15 | Knowing is seen as a subjective experience in which the content of that which is known is subject to manifold possible interpretations . |
| 16 | DW warrants that upon delivery by DW/LD the diskette on which the Program is distributed is free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of ninety ( 90 ) days from the date the Program is delivered . |
| 17 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 18 | Ensuring informed patient consent to release of information to third parties is obtained is important for service research . |
| 19 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |