Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sections 1–7 of the Insolvency Act 1986 relate to a procedure whereby a company which is nearly or actually insolvent may resolve its financial difficulties to the satisfaction of its creditors without incurring the expense and adhering to the formalities otherwise involved under the Act . |
| 32 | It is vital to have good side mirrors on the car in order to be aware of traffic which is behind or overtaking . |
| 33 | ‘ Latin America and the Caribbean need a news agency with high professional and technical standards , which is politically and economically independent , and whose aim is to promote justice and peace , ’ says its consortium of supporters . |
| 34 | Many modes of communication may serve the purpose but we will need to , choose one which is personally and socially acceptable , and does not provoke anger , surprise , or obscure the message . |
| 35 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 36 | I spend my holidays in a cottage in Wales which is administratively and legally less distinct from England than Connecticut is from New York State . |
| 37 | But if the government 's Food Safety Bill , which is currently before parliament gets through , the sight of food in our shops with the label ‘ Irradiated ’ on it , will become commonplace . |
| 38 | The librarian therefore has to choose between software which is readily and easily usable but which is inflexible and software which needs to be " programmed " but which allows the user to tailor the software to the needs of one particular library . |
| 39 | He may well be right ; however , unlettered in the period though I am , I seem to hear fairly clear stylistic connections between it and the 4-Part Mass Pater Creator Omnium , which is securely and explicitly dated in the manuscript to 1546 . |
| 40 | Okay we 've got er example P , er sorry class example P plus R. We 've got a T vector which is basically after you 've taken the input pattern just after you 've tupled it . |
| 41 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 42 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 43 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 44 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 45 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 46 | If my withdrawal from separatism had in part to do with feeling unhappy with a surfeit of hatred , which is mentally and spiritually very depleting , it had also to do with how you go about communicating feelings of being cleansed and enlightened . |
| 47 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 48 | Les Noces de Pierette , which is more than 6ft wide , dates from 1905 . |
| 49 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 50 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 51 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 52 | The number of therapists who belong to professional bodies in the UK is increasing by 12 per cent per year , which is more than five times the rate of increase of medical doctors . |
| 53 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 54 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 55 | Hair which is more than 50% grey needs permanent colour , but it does n't have to look unnatural : some stylists will combine lowlights with permanent tint to give a more textured look , rather than a block colour . |
| 56 | They will not offer the clarity of full-scale HDTV , which is more than twice that of conventional sets , but they will outperform them — and confuse the would-be consumer , who has little idea what HDTV is . |
| 57 | Jupiter 's mass is 317.893 M E , which is more than 2½ times the mass of all the other planets put together . |
| 58 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 59 | The Department of Education has already been severely criticised by both the Audit Office and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee over the overall system which is more than £4,5m over the original estimated budget . |
| 60 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |