Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another factor that needs to be considered when policy is formulated is that lethal malformation will not always be diagnosed before delivery . |
| 32 | However , each editing process that is undertaken is demanding to the system . |
| 33 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 34 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 35 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 36 | V42 and MNP4 : Error correction protocols , used to ensure that what is received is exactly the same as what was transmitted |
| 37 | The level of income at which SB is received is widely accepted as a crude and basic measure of the ‘ poverty line ’ , that point below which people may be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ . |
| 38 | The main reason that Marslen-Wilson and Tyler give for rejecting the idea that context can operate before any sensory information is received is one which has been used by many other theorists , including Fodor ( 1983 ) . |
| 39 | Yet in our day-to-day lives , we are witnesses to communication breakdowns , misinterpretations and blockages , where the transmitter 's attitudes , values , experiences , language , posture , etc. do not link together in a consistent message , or where the message itself has inaccuracies , or where the receiver 's attitudes , values and perceptions cause so much filtering of the message that the intended information does not get through — what is heard is what the receiver wanted to hear , not what was said . |
| 40 | THE pub name The Case Is Altered is probably a corruption of the Spanish ‘ casa alta ’ , the high house . |
| 41 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 42 | What is puzzling is why these inequalities have widened over the years . |
| 43 | As far as TV work is concerned , one critic claims the only interesting work the agency is producing is Kiss FM — from an inherited BBDO creative duo . |
| 44 | Software for most econometric analyses that should be included in the packages which the Centre is producing is already available from academic sources . |
| 45 | Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional . |
| 46 | A special context in which the pain signal is given is at the end of the mating act , when the tom-cat is withdrawing his barbed penis from the female . |
| 47 | It stands to reason that were young people truly creative the culture would fall apart , for originality is by definition different from what is given , and what is given is the culture itself . |
| 48 | The context in which care is given is also subject to change as , indeed , are the professions themselves . |
| 49 | Many researchers ( e.g. Sharpe 1976 ; Deem 1978 ) have argued that the occupational segregation of men and women which takes place after education is completed is related to the subject segregation which takes place at school . |
| 50 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 51 | One of the two motorists Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash . |
| 52 | One of those Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash . |
| 53 | The first is a pre filter to hold up to 31 of Siporax , which it is claimed is sufficient filtration for 20 fish 12″ long and obviates the need for traditional filters . |
| 54 | The equality that is claimed is one of rights and they can be summarised as : |
| 55 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 56 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 57 | How film is edited is vital too . |
| 58 | In the USSR everything that is permitted is prohibited . |
| 59 | The base on to which the silver is electroplated is a mix of nickel , copper and zinc , called nickel silver , although there is no silver in the alloy . |
| 60 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |