Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 2 | Her relationship with one child can seem timeless , eternal , until she is pregnant and gives birth again . |
| 3 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |
| 4 | The extent to which true devolution of powers to Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland is necessary or desirable is controversial and differs in each case . |
| 5 | Humiliation enthusiast , my favourite pastime is humiliating and disciplining mature male submissives , in strict bondage , lovely tan coloured mistress invites humble applicants , T.V. , C.P. , B. , D. and rubber wear . |
| 6 | " The state , which calls itself a state of the working people , is humiliating and exploiting the workers , " he said . |
| 7 | The director of a haulage company who would like to retire as soon as is practicable and leave much of the management of the firm to his children may take advantage of retirement relief . |
| 8 | Soil life is scarce and burrowing earthworms absent . |
| 9 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 10 | Management may be prepared to pay this higher cost when labour is scarce and has to be attracted from alternative employment , or when a union is making strong demands for a higher quality of working life . |
| 11 | As the very essence of nature it is eternal and underlies all forms — all qualities — all activity and all things return into it . |
| 12 | In a compliance strategy , on the other hand , the style is conciliatory and relies upon bargaining to attain conformity . |
| 13 | Western-style riding is alive and bucking in Britain |
| 14 | Cityslickers and Bonanza aficionados will be delighted to learn that Western-style riding is alive and bucking in the UK . |
| 15 | And if we look at the patristic understanding of atonement , what hits us with startling freshness is that the Divine Drama is alive and pulsating with the tension and conflict of the Great Battle . |
| 16 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 17 | To take an outlandish illustration : do divisions between the army , the politburo and industrial managers in the USSR over the allocation of resources between weapons and consumer goods , imply that pluralism is alive and kicking ? |
| 18 | In this ‘ evangelism equals church planting ’ model , the priority may be seen as a desire to make sure every community throughout the earth is covered by a church that is alive and preaching the good news of Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | I 'M CONVINCED Lord Lucan is alive and has visited Britain several times . |
| 20 | Medau work , with all its many aspects , is alive and thriving in the counties north and west of London . |
| 21 | ALONG WITH THE NEWS that Marilyn Monroe is alive and working in a pizza restaurant in Wisconsin , a US tabloid paper recently ran the headline : ‘ Disney Theme Park Found On Mars ’ . |
| 22 | And to put an end of the Hendrix debate , his spirit is alive and working to equal , if not greater effect in Kurdt Kobain . |
| 23 | And to put an end of the Hendrix debate , his spirit is alive and working to equal , if not greater effect in Kurdt Kobain . |
| 24 | As such , they believe active citizenship is alive when looking at voluntary/charitable work and community control . |
| 25 | The land inside the wall is extensive and includes farmlands as well as the city itself . |
| 26 | Norfolk had a particularly strong tradition in the subject and the university 's resident tutor , Rachel Young , was given due credit for this , albeit anonymously : ‘ her work is outstanding and has influenced not only many students , but also some part-time tutors . ’ |
| 27 | In other words , when the gulf between public values and private interests grows too large , it is Labour that suffers . |
| 28 | Any natural selection involves differential reproductive success that is nonfortuitous because determined by the way variant organisms are interacting with an environment that is causally sensitive to those particular physical differences in the organisms . |
| 29 | alright , fair enough , if , if the , if the deformity is mobile that means you can move it , you can actually do a lot of manipulation and physiotherapy and that can work very well . |
| 30 | The working party have taken the view that the small company audit is unnecessary and have virtually accused us of being parasites . |