Example sentences of "is [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often an approach to a Commission official will be more effective if it is ‘ pan-EC ’ , that is if made by a number of companies operating throughout the EC , preferably under an EC umbrella organisation . |
| 2 | rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what |
| 3 | A main decision is whether to settle for one fixed camera position or whether to stay mobile . |
| 4 | The big decision in Brussels is whether to stay in the Lower Town ( historic and lively ) or the Upper Town ( elegant and leafy ) . |
| 5 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 6 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 7 | As for the metaphor of ‘ law ’ , its persisting power is evident whenever someone , pondering the determinist thesis that even his own actions are ‘ bound by ’ , are ‘ subject to ’ , ‘ obey ’ the laws of nature , finds himself thinking as though he ought to be conscious of his own resisting will , as he is when submitting to human laws . |
| 8 | But it is when riding in the British Isles — both parts of this island , England Scotland and Wales — that most of us are most vulnerable . |
| 9 | One is unlikely to catch the infection from sleeping in a bed previously occupied by an infested person and there is no need , as there is when dealing with body lice , to take special care with clothing and bed linen . |
| 10 | My rule is when skating on thin ice move fast , so I shall get |
| 11 | Even though we should now have reached beyond this view there is still lingering uncertainty as to what the world of experience and thought is when perceived through a language such as BSL . |
| 12 | From the magically perfect opening harmonics this was a performance of impact , precision and style that reminds us what a marvellous work this is when performed with such burning intensity . |
| 13 | In December 1987 this adjustment process took a further week and the final outcome is as recorded in Table 3.5 . |
| 14 | She attempts to show , for instance , how the middle-class Western housewife is as exploited by male-dominated multinational policy as the Honduran woman working in the banana-packing plant . |
| 15 | The wording of the penal notice in Form N 77 is as given at the foot of the draft injunctions in Chapter 32 . |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 17 | This is as opposed to a lump sum . |
| 18 | But as the key diagram stands at the moment , because it goes north of Knaresborough in its indication of where the route proposal will be , I think if that i key diagram is to remain , it is right for the examination to consider what the need for that route is as opposed to a route or any other route which goes between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 19 | It is as opposed to quality . |
| 20 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 21 | If your strategy is to start at the starboard end of the line and carry on sailing on starboard tack , the situation is as illustrated in Diagram 1 . |
| 22 | Suppose that a company and its potential rivals in a market for a new product are in agreement that the rate at which it could drive costs down is as illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 23 | To form a Π-type m-derived section , the procedure is as illustrated in figure 9.9 . |
| 24 | " Write out what the situation is as seen by each major character . |
| 25 | But whilst I regret any possible oversights , the information is at best only as good as my sources , and the history is as seen from my viewpoint . |
| 26 | The extent of POU HD is as defined by Laughton ( 22 ) . |
| 27 | where is the level of the firm 's ( pre-production ) stocks at the beginning of period t , and where the reservation price is as defined in ( 2 ) . |
| 28 | Thus the study will explore what relationship , if any , exists between entry qualifications and completion rates , whether the age of the candidate has any effect , the success rates of women compared to men and how important full-time study is as compared to the part-time mode . |
| 29 | Sixteen , consecutive frames , viewed from top left to bottom right , imaged at 0.3 Hz are shown in A , B , and C. The transverse 1 cm slice is as viewed from below . |
| 30 | If a centre has a Validation Procedures Agreement with the Council the progress of its submissions after their approval by the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee is as prescribed by that agreement . |