Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he outside or is in he cells ? |
| 2 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 3 | The methods are applied systematically every time the behaviour occurs or is about to occur . |
| 4 | By virtue of s.21(a) of the SEA 1934 ( as amended by s.6(b) of the ITSFEA 1988 ) the SEC has the authority to provide assistance to ‘ foreign securities authorities ’ if the requesting authority is conducting an investigation which is necessary to determine whether any person has violated , is violating , or is about to violate any laws or rules which the requesting authority administers or enforces . |
| 5 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 6 | the dog is worrying or is about to worry the livestock and there are not other reasonable means of ending or preventing the worrying ; or |
| 7 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 8 | Pupils could be encouraged to ascertain what is going on in the picture , what has happened or is about to happen , why are people doing certain things . |
| 9 | Looking back , Jean believes that is around the time Brian 's feelings for her changed . |
| 10 | Their policy is ‘ to reflect the best religious music that is around . |
| 11 | The commands being executed are represented as a pattern of ‘ on ’ and ‘ off ’ switches in the central processor unit , so that a switch that is in the off state is carrying as much information as one that is on . |
| 12 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 13 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 14 | For hair that is up to 30% grey , a vegetable rinse ( semipermanent colour ) will add both vibrancy and shine while giving natural-looking highlights . |
| 15 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 16 | It is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology , has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed . |
| 17 | I believe that we should establish a different international organization that is up to the task of managing whaling . " |
| 18 | ‘ I think it would be better if Chris Lewis had a month off before the season starts again but I 'm afraid that is up to his county . |
| 19 | Pipe the filling into the buns and decorate the tops with any that is over . |
| 20 | Many of us look forward to that festive season and yet say after the event , ‘ I am glad that is over . ’ |
| 21 | Having children is a life choice that is down to the individual . |
| 22 | Two of these were eventually to become favourites in Church of England hymnals — ‘ He that is down need fear no fall ’ and ‘ Who would true valour see ’ ; the latter , indeed , is now one of the most widely used hymns in funeral services in the Church . |
| 23 | Local government taxes once formed 11 per cent of all tax income , a share that is down in 1990/1 to 5 per cent . |
| 24 | When this happens they often find that , like Viola Angotti , other countries make a response that is out of proportion in order to rescue their damaged pride . |
| 25 | Clearly , it is the concentrated and closed narrative form of the feature film that is out of line , a rupture within a generic tradition of the popular novelistic from which television 's mutations are more continuous . |
| 26 | In developing such trees we have to take into account not only component failures but also human factors , as well as equipment that is out of action for maintenance or tests . |
| 27 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 28 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 29 | I do n't like to use food that is out of season and prefer to look forward to the summer strawberries and autumn game . |
| 30 | The fact that the pool should be level from the outset and should be constantly checked during backfilling can not be overemphasized , for a pool that is out of level leads to flooding in some places and unsightly exposure of the fibreglass in others . |