Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The development of a corporate culture which deals appropriately with risks is most important .
2 The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility .
3 The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility .
4 Despite many investigations , the evidence for these cancer risks is still not conclusive , although it is certainly disturbing ( Vessey et al .
5 Research in the Arts is mostly conducted on an individual basis and it is not possible to do full justice to this activity here .
6 The International Association of Women in the Arts is also planning a series of events in Madrid in September , as well as its AGM and conference which will take place from the 28 September to the 2 October .
7 Without these criticism lacks intellectual rigour , and is unable to justify itself adequately in a world in which the personal and social utility of the arts is increasingly called into question .
8 Course Television Coverage of the Arts is mainly a matter of pearls before swine and horses before carts .
9 Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ?
10 A French scientist said ‘ Most of the work to be done in science and the useful arts is precisely that which needs the knowledge and co-operation of many scientists that is why it is necessary for scientists and technologists to meet — even in those branches of knowledge which seem to have least relation and connection with one another . ’
11 Student involvement in the arts is especially encouraged and as well as the theatre being used regularly by the Department of English , Media and Theatre Studies for productions and teaching , the University Drama Group and the Ballet and Contemporary Dance Society regularly use the Riverside for their own public presentations .
12 Student involvement in the arts is especially encouraged and as well as the theatre being used regularly by the Department of English , Media and Theatre Studies for productions and teaching , the University Drama Group and the Ballet and Contemporary Dance Society regularly use the Riverside for their own public presentations .
13 Now ethnic arts is really playing for a very small number of people .
14 Although Cal Arts is now associated with a distinctive West Coast style , Baldessari was influential in bringing in East Coast and European artists — Joseph Kosuth , Robert Smithson , Lawrence Weiner , Daniel Buren , Hans Haacke , Sol LeWitt .
15 The kind of criticism that is appropriate in the performing arts is quite different from that in technology , which again differs from the nature of criticism in philosophy .
16 Not that the crowd at Le Palais noticed , of course : British audiences ' antipathy to homegrown rappers is as legendary as it is ignorant , but the real surprise was the startlingly similar response for Pete Rock & CL Smooth .
17 For instance , enabling a robot to recognise a wide variety of objects in different positions and lighting-conditions is currently beyond the state of the art , as is building a robot or desk-computer that will understand many different sentences , on different topics and spoken by different speakers .
18 The use of today 's worship songs is much in evidence and they are described in the United States as ‘ songs important to pilgrim people ’ .
19 It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this .
20 Macedo 's vision of preservation for the forest and its peoples is very different from the Utopian fantasies of many in the developed world who profess a passionate concern for Amazonia .
21 The interchange of the two peoples is more and more frequent , and … is likely to continue increasing ’ .
22 Feedback is given , and a ‘ help ’ section with examples of the categories and their combinations is always available .
23 The probability of each of the possible tag combinations is then found from the transition matrices and the words assigned the relevant grammatical scores .
24 The process of learning words , learning their grammatical categories and acquiring them in correct combinations is very much a two-way affair .
25 The record of hemichordates is moderately good ; the organic tubes of rhabdopleurid pterobranchs have a fair preservation potential , and the Burgess Shale ‘ Ottoia ’ tenuis may be an enteropneust similar to the extant acorn-worm Balanoglossus ( unpublished observations by S.C.M. ) .
26 The section of the Musselburgh Bypass between the Asda South and Asda North Roundabouts is now to be constructed as a dual carriageway .
27 If everyone knows and obeys the rules traffic flow and safety at roundabouts is much improved .
28 A rounded picture of later life over the past two or three centuries is thus impossible .
29 The development of the role of the British state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often portrayed as the establishment of ‘ the welfare state ’ .
30 A small market town which has lived off the land for centuries is now looking forward to a high-tec future .
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