Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end . |
| 2 | The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all . |
| 3 | But while ( 57 ) is certainly ungrammatical , this is much less clearly true , if at all , of cases where happy is properly marked as non-restrictive : ( 58 ) Stephen , happy , seemed to have recovered all his lost energy |
| 4 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 5 | It is widely assumed that these scoring systems can be used for comparisons . |
| 6 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 7 | Overall , however , the railways are likely to be one of the toughest state sell-offs of them all , for BR has not made a profit for 40 years and is widely perceived as demoralised and run-down . |
| 8 | All posts are subject to the local government superannuation scheme and it is widely acknowledged that this is one of the most attractive schemes offered anywhere . |
| 9 | For example , an increase of approximately 100 per cent in vehicle mileage by 2025 is widely acknowledged as likely to be responsible for huge increases in energy consumption and pollution , yet the Department of Transport " is n't interested in energy efficiency " . |
| 10 | The size of the problem from the point of view of governments is widely acknowledged as large and growing . |
| 11 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 12 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 13 | But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company . |
| 14 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 15 | It is widely accepted that this system ‘ has nothing to teach us ’ . |
| 16 | To quote one of them ( D. M. Anderson ) , ‘ It is widely accepted that some , perhaps many , of the abiotic chemical reactions and processes leading to the origin on Earth of replicating micro-organisms occurred very early in the history of Earth in close proximity to the surfaces of clay minerals and other inorganic substrates . ’ |
| 17 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 18 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 19 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 20 | The Cullen report is widely recognised as one of the most excellent reports that has ever been produced on matters that affect industrial safety . |
| 21 | DESERT Victory , which relates how Monty 's Eighth Army drove back Rommel 's Afrika Korps at El Alamein 50 years ago , is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made . |
| 22 | McKinsey is widely regarded as one of the top business consulting companies in the world and Gerstner has been characterised as one of its stars . |
| 23 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 24 | But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways . |
| 25 | But even setting aside such terminological differences , it remains true that whether or not any animals employ symbolic representations is widely regarded as doubtful . |
| 26 | ‘ American culture ’ is widely regarded as inferior to ‘ European culture ’ , even as a threat . |
| 27 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 28 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
| 29 | This is widely recognized as one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the successful implementation of any innovation , and particularly one such as profiling which requires teachers to find time for a new kind of activity , namely one-to-one discussion with pupils , as well as completing detailed records . |
| 30 | Categorizing fiction according to a subject classification is widely recognized as difficult and unhelpful . |