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

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1 Apparently there have been at least internal discussions of someday perhaps blending parts of the opposing OSF-USL technologies but it is currently ‘ not part of any strategy on paper or on any timeline . ’
2 Special classes usually have the advantage of lower teacher-pupil ratios and it is therefore easier for teachers to organise activities in which the child 's level of participation in social and communicative activities can be carefully monitored and adapted to suit existing abilities .
3 McEniff prefers not to talk figures but he is clearly a wealthy man .
4 The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically .
5 Orc Boyz are powerful enough to be considered core units but it is doubly important to beef them up by including a powerful character .
6 Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world .
7 This last statement should be true for most punishment situations but it is particularly necessary with the restraint method .
8 Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle .
9 A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary .
10 Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information .
11 ( ii ) The ‘ 10 minute ’ rule This is a development of the method of introducing a Bill by motion now rarely used in the case of Government Bills and it is extremely rare for legislation to result from its use for Private Members ' Bill purposes .
12 There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with .
13 We have just about got the thumbprints on the Video and Activity Book contracts and it is fairly reasonable to suppose that the rest will now follow .
14 However , the abundance of atmospheric water is also consistent with a gas-phase equilibrium with the sulphuric acid and water in the cloud droplets and it is therefore far from certain that significant accessible repositories of water exist , even with water in the hydroxyl form .
15 However , it is advisable and commercially expedient for each firm to adopt its own client care commitments and it is therefore important to conduct conveyancing business within the parameters of the commitments offered to the client upon acceptance of instructions .
16 He is responsible for the Group 's taxation , UK trust and pension services and he is also a well known author of books and articles on taxation .
17 Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it .
18 In practice , discriminatory rules may still be encountered in the member states and it is sometimes necessary to invoke EC rules in the appropriate national court in order to secure equal access to the relevant market .
19 In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately .
20 Welsh Highland Commercial Director David Allan said : ‘ This is very good news for Caernarfon ; it is very good news for narrow-gauge enthusiasts and it is very good news for the Preservation movement as a whole . ’
21 The area is rich in raw materials such as timber and construction materials and it is also planned to attract ship repair , machinery manufacture and electronic assembly plants .
22 This nucleus contains neuropeptide Y receptors and it is potentially one site at which neuropeptide Y given intraventricularily may have bound to produce the effects observed in these studies .
23 This is the method of knitting Fair Isle on the older push-button machines and it is also used with the ribber and double bed colour changer for double jacquard .
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