Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 2 | Like Sonia , Prakesh has had to leave her home because of domestic violence , while Dharmowtee ( from Mauritius ) is facing the threat of deportation , despite the fact that she is pregnant and in ill health , because the Home Office believe that she married in order to stay in this country . |
| 3 | A Council of Regency was set up to supervise affairs : the Queen is pregnant and , if nothing comes of it , the Council will ensure that the crown of Scotland passes to Alexander III 's granddaughter , Princess Margaret of Norway . |
| 4 | Her relationship with one child can seem timeless , eternal , until she is pregnant and gives birth again . |
| 5 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 6 | Dr Smedley confirms that Betty is pregnant and she returns home , where Frank is doing ‘ another little job ’ on a broken peddle-bin . |
| 7 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 8 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |
| 9 | I would n't know whether that is pregnant or not , it 's taking deep breaths |
| 10 | The codicils of Popilius Heracla , whose dating is controversial but likely to be early third century , contain an odder expression : rogo iubeoque fideique vestrae committo . |
| 11 | It is controversial whether acute pancreatitis has longterm effects on pancreatic function . |
| 12 | This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below . |
| 13 | The extent to which true devolution of powers to Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland is necessary or desirable is controversial and differs in each case . |
| 14 | This definition of works of art is controversial and so are the exclusions . |
| 15 | In particular , an organization that is given a task that is controversial and unpopular in many quarters , such as an organization charged to promote racial and sexual equality or one providing help to a stigmatized group such as vagrant alcoholics , may find that it is given an unclear mandate and is placed in a position in which it finds it hard to acquire ‘ legitimacy ’ for its activities . |
| 16 | Those unhappy with the " confessional " model , mostly in its Christian form , have over the years sought to escape from the dilemma — unconsciously or consciously — by subtracting from the equation of RE all that is controversial and likely to cause trouble . |
| 17 | You 're dead right , closing down a service of this kind is controversial and very difficult and has to be handled very sensitively . |
| 18 | But consistency in strategy would not require a judge to probe the past to discover the " best " interpretation of a statute or the Constitution when this is controversial or the " correct " account of a past judicial decision when lawyers disagree how it should be read . |
| 19 | The treatment is controversial because it can have unfortunate ‘ side-effects ’ . |
| 20 | The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air . |
| 21 | Humiliation enthusiast , my favourite pastime is humiliating and disciplining mature male submissives , in strict bondage , lovely tan coloured mistress invites humble applicants , T.V. , C.P. , B. , D. and rubber wear . |
| 22 | " The state , which calls itself a state of the working people , is humiliating and exploiting the workers , " he said . |
| 23 | An argument over the restaurant bill or at the cinema box office is humiliating and undignified for a man , and her good manners must save him from being put in such a situation . |
| 24 | The pressure gradient needed to produce a given flow rate is much larger when the flow is turbulent than when it is laminar ( Fig. 2.11 ) . |
| 25 | Where the heart is turbulent and restless , where it is mixed in motive , and conceals anger , pride , or fear , then the vision of God can not be seen . |
| 26 | The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop . |
| 27 | It is for this reason that so many studies of disability and rehabilitation use " return to work " as the end point since it is definite and usually unequivocal . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing is definite as yet . |
| 29 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |
| 30 | We could standardize on US equipment with production under licence of those items that it is practicable and economic to manufacture in Western Europe . |