Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second premise is a description of the experimental set-up , including the statement , ‘ This sample of bats is blindfolded so that they do not have the use of their eyes ’ . |
| 2 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 3 | The normal justification thesis states that accepting authority is justified only if it improves one 's compliance with reason . |
| 4 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
| 5 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 6 | To turn the grinder on , the switch is eased forward until it clicks downwards . |
| 7 | He is trapped there and I have made it my promise , Tallis 's Promise , to release him . |
| 8 | The fallacy is committed equally if we identify good with some simple natural property , with pleasure , for example . |
| 9 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 10 | Hunt , a £150,000 signing from Kettering 22 months ago , scored 14 goals until he was dumped into the reserves by Keegan who added : ‘ He has worked hard , he 's knuckled down and he deserves his place . ’ |
| 11 | Although not closely related to other river dolphins , the tucuxi is included here because it shares a similar habitat . |
| 12 | Safrane has been designed around an extremely rigid and safe bodyshell , featuring a platform in which the engine is installed transversely and which carries front and rear subframes to ease installation of different mechanical units such as suspension arms . |
| 13 | This is not arbitrary — it is designed so that it operates just as well with colour-blind predators as with those that have good colour vision . |
| 14 | Artificial lenses of this shape are optically poor , but a fish 's lens is designed so that it corrects these aberrations , achieving a quality of image with a single lens which camera manufacturers are still trying to match . |
| 15 | Tony and I plan to marry when all this is sorted out and he has promised me Nutty 's head for a garden ornament , he says it will be very effective with parsley sprouting from its orifices . |
| 16 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 17 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 18 | The peril of getting caught in an information loop is made plain if we look at the following facts . |
| 19 | It is made easier if we have lots of messengers . |
| 20 | Route finding in the forest is made easier if you follow a series of numbered posts dotted around . |
| 21 | Document layout is made easier if you predefine the characteristics of paragraphs . |
| 22 | He says that the dialogue is fun — much of it is made up as they go along ! |
| 23 | Can he , after the row is made up and she has something for herself , be relinquished back to his car , knowing that she is not as greedy as he feared ? |
| 24 | After he 's been ridden , he is turned out in the field , because he wo n't eat unless he 's turned out and I do try desperately hard to get four feeds a day into him . |
| 25 | The Code is drafted so that it does not impose any obligations on the parties to a takeover and their directors which would place them in conflict with their legal duties . |
| 26 | The carer must ensure that the patient is cleaned thoroughly when he has finished . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it 's a major obstacle to much of the inward investment that is needed here and we need substantial inward investment . |
| 28 | In patients with this type of depression , their critical period is advanced so that it falls during sleep . |
| 29 | But it will be Friday morning before the the screen of national opinion is drawn back and she discovers whether it is John from Huntingdon or Neil from Islwyn on the other side . |
| 30 | Instead , the idea of a continuum emerged ( Pahl , 1 966b ) based on the degree of urbanization experienced in an area and in the early 1970s Rogers and Burdge ( 1972 ) produced the continuum which is shown below and which depends upon population size , population density and the degree to which the community members observe rural or urban norms . |