Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 2 | The proportion of responders achieving independence from parents rose with age and suggests that independence is delayed rather than prevented by the presence of cystic fibrosis . |
| 3 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 4 | Without such funding the best way to process general language is to acquire rather than develop a parser ( Patten , 1992 ) . |
| 5 | When the effect of an additional task is to disrupt rather than facilitate performance then the two tasks are said to compete for the same " functional space " within the hemispheres . |
| 6 | ( This concept is considered again when discussing the NHS — refer to Chapter 7 , pages 90–7 . ) |
| 7 | Expenditure is permitted only where authorized by a candidate , a candidate 's election agent , or a person authorized in writing by the agent . |
| 8 | The programme for 1988/89 is organised so as to maintain the flexibility necessary to allow for the covering of new research results and to enable distinguished overseas visitors to present papers to the Group . |
| 9 | To ‘ add in ’ gender as a specific category with a compelling need to be addressed is to increase rather than decrease the teacher 's predicament . |
| 10 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 11 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 12 | In a radically different approach to filter design , a filter is synthesised so as to provide some preconceived functional form of frequency response that exhibits certain desirable features . |
| 13 | It will involve reviewing the appropriate governmental legislation and identifying the extent to which this legislation is embraced so as to enhance the teaching of reading for both low achieving and underachieving readers . |
| 14 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 15 | Our annual intake is selected so as to reflect the national average and range of ability . |
| 16 | The 5in faceplate is turned rather than cast , so is more accurate . |
| 17 | The poem is written so as to give the impression of fleeting thoughts , which take him even as he is in conversation with these men , Brad and John , in a bar . |
| 18 | Similarly the text is written so as to bring out comic connotations of the word fut , the passé simple of the verb " to be " by writing it with a characteristically Anglo-Norman spelling as " " fout " " , recalling foutre . |
| 19 | Literature is illuminated rather than obscured as we come nearer the personality and circumstances of the writer ; and provided that at all times our aim is to illuminate literature , we are on the side of the angels . |
| 20 | So the typical snakebite victim is stabbed rather than bitten . |
| 21 | It is a key enabler for this , but only if people use it as a way of changing the way business is done rather than merchandising existing systems and organisations . |
| 22 | The Act is drafted so as to apply to any foreign State , a practice followed in the criminal context by the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Act 1990 . |
| 23 | In the present decade it is thought more important that they should be " boys " ; rumbustious behaviour is approved rather than disapproved . |
| 24 | If a bad undershoot seems inevitable , again prompt action is needed rather than waiting to see what happens and how far you get . |
| 25 | If you touch the rope even , the bell is angled so as to sound continuously . ’ |
| 26 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 27 | The constructed index is transformed so as to move from 0 in 1970 Q4 to a peak of unity assumed to be reached in 1989 Q4 . |
| 28 | Their sights are set elsewhere as is shown later when discussing " some possible dangers in reading . " |
| 29 | Work should therefore be rapid and finish in time for the Louvre 's exhibition of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ which is going ahead as scheduled at the end of September . |
| 30 | ‘ Concentration ’ , the word used in the EC Merger Regulation is used only when discussing the application of that Regulation . |