Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 2 | Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue . |
| 3 | The clothes themselves are for children aged nought to six and everything is made in this country , 80 per cent exclusively for Young England . |
| 4 | Although this seems clever when one is told about it , a few minutes-hands-on experience demonstrates that it is not AI at all — it is a parlour trick . |
| 5 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 6 | It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate . |
| 7 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 8 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 9 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 10 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 11 | Also for the audio tour and generally for making sure that everything is kept on an even keel historically and that people keep on the right lines . |
| 12 | Er we we have we just make sure that everything is told to the prospect on the phone . |
| 13 | ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK . |
| 14 | Only by a careful understanding of the market place can one be sure that one is thinking in the appropriate dimension and take full advantage of scale economies . |
| 15 | To be really sure that one is dealing with a fossil fern it should be possible to see the spore cases , because other kinds of plants can produce fern-like foliage . |
| 16 | At the other extreme we have something like Plato 's system , where the people are given no role at all and everything is left to individual experts , individual administrators , so Plato 's system is at one everything is left to the individuals , participatory democracy |
| 17 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 18 | These are supplies of services and standard-rated because something is done for a consideration and it is outside the zero rate and exempt groups , not being an interest in land ( Neville Russell ( 1987 ) 3 BVC 611 at p 615 ; Notice 742B , para 14 ) . |
| 19 | This method of heating has the advantage of being more economical as no heat is wasted keeping water hot and none is lost in the pipes between the hot water cylinder and the hot tap . |
| 20 | , John ( c. 1770– c. 1843 ) , merchant service master and Antarctic discoverer , was born c .1770 but nothing is known about his early life and education . |
| 21 | As in all ex-Soviet passenger aircraft , the seat backs are designed to flop forward and lie horizontal if no-one is sitting on them . |
| 22 | That pattern is the same whether one is speaking of reasonably affluent , suburban Croydon , the outer estates of Luton , or the council house areas of Wythenshawe . |
| 23 | If one of these machines is defective and someone is injured as a result , then the importer/distributor will be liable under the Act , apart from any remedies available against him under contract . |
| 24 | Senior registrar appointment committees assume that accreditation is necessary before someone is appointed to a consultant post and that accreditation will be granted only after four years of higher training ( eight years for a doctor training half time under the PM(79)3 scheme ) . |
| 25 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |