Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His opposition and resistance to war as a means of solving problems is total and yet his adherence to the principle of ahi sā does not mean a failure to recognize that there might be situations of moral dilemma in which different moral considerations apply for different people . |
| 2 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 3 | By contrast , in many problems the number of possibilities is unbounded and then one must use infinite-dimensional spaces to represent them . |
| 4 | Yeah yeah well I 've done it and I just want to check with you that what we 've done is right and then I can er |
| 5 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 7 | It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized . |
| 8 | It is clear that both your specialist and GP feel that your vasectomy operation is a red herring with regard to the pain which you are suffering . |
| 9 | But after our win against Slough confidence is high and anyway we like being the underdogs . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known . |
| 11 | If we regard the proportions as ’ half and half ’ , it is logical to assume that households containing two or more people should pay 100 per cent. , that the occupants of a house that is empty or not their principal residence should pay 50 per cent. , and that a single occupant — being , as it were , in the middle — should pay 75 per cent . |
| 12 | One person could pull G-FUGA from its hangar ; it is self-contained and now I can start , taxi and fly it . |
| 13 | I know it 's a different subject like this is drugs and the other thing is smoking but like it 's still the same if people see you do it people take things off you . |
| 14 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
| 15 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 16 | Firstly it is wrong and secondly it is extremely difficult to implement . |
| 17 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 18 | While creating a bit mapped image is quick and easy it does have a number of significant disadvantages . |
| 19 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is a man , it is inevitable that eventually I should ask him about wanking . |
| 20 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 21 | There is a sense in which family relationships are regarded as providing structures of support which are uniquely reliable , but at the same time it is obvious that not everyone draws upon such support in practice . |
| 22 | The attraction of such a product is obvious and thus there is a strong temptation for manufacturers to supply and for purchasers to buy a product so described . |
| 23 | In matters relating to the social sciences , the number of variables is large and hence it is often difficult to establish valid theories of cause and effect . |
| 24 | that 's what gave them the sort of , the idea to set it up but I mean Aston is good because now we 're n now we 're not |
| 25 | The information on them is confidential and therefore it ensures that guests only see their own forms . |
| 26 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 27 | Erm the speed with which we dealt with item one is encouraging or rather it 's somebody might be but item two again maybe if proposals which perhaps er a little controversy . |
| 28 | This information is complex and therefore it must be imparted in a language and form that the client can not only understand but also is able to remember . |
| 29 | He might have had thoughts of destiny but it is unlikely that even he could conceive that troupes of girls bearing his name would still be dancing nearly a hundred years later . |
| 30 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |