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

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1 Although there are practical and legal difficulties in classifying shares as liabilities , another distinction — that between equity and non-equity shares — is practicable and is of great significance in assessing the financial position of the company .
2 ‘ Well I like that … that 's rich that is after all I do for you .
3 The cost of myocardial infarction and other cardiac illness is high and is in part the result of vocational disability .
4 onto the thing , so you know , it was like well it 's better than being at the telly .
5 if put , put sample in , in er er at paragraph erm we said that it could be , we referred to paragraph two , two , three , this is the third paragraph I 've turn up on page a hundred and thirty six on claim sees to recover and then we say the premises , the claim is unlawful as being in breach of article eighty five , alternatively , unlawful in seeking to enforce agreements
6 But , having regard to the passage from the judgment of the European Court in the Francovich case which I have just quoted , it is in my opinion right that in the present case your Lordships should proceed on the basis that if , on the reference to it in the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , the court should hold that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 is invalid as being in conflict with article 30 of the Treaty , the United Kingdom may be obliged to make good damage caused to individuals by the breach of article 30 for which it is responsible .
7 Lakatos offers a universal criterion of rationality , then , which is conjectural and is to be tested against the history of science .
8 Pavo , the second of the Southern Birds , is not so distinctive as Grus , but it is not hard to find , because Alpha Centauri and Alpha Trianguli Australe show the way to its brightest star , Alpha , which is bluish-white and is of magnitude 1.9 .
9 The model is now flying at the maximum speed of which it is capable and is in a situation where all power above that required to maintain height goes into making the model move forwards .
10 It 's worse than being on Griffin Close .
11 Local authorities will need a substantial amount of time to ensure that their information technology is correct and is in place to deal with the council tax .
12 The Permo-Triassic here is thinner and is without salt .
13 Thus vengeance-magic launched against witches is a perfectly legitimate and morally acceptable course of action ; but recourse to similar magical practices directed against honest , upright members of the community is bad and is in fact sorcery .
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