Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] is [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visual check of the general condition of the water or effluent is normally made when a sample is taken , and other inspections are often made without sampling . |
| 2 | Even the work published in English by people like Norman , Halliday , Moore or Steven is often ignored or treated as misguided . |
| 3 | The question of the origin of the designer or designers is much canvassed but does not seem to me , in the present state of our knowledge , susceptible of even provisional or doubtful answers . |
| 4 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 5 | Looking at how people 's behaviour or performance is either improved or detracted from in the presence of others . |
| 6 | ( The top level directory of a VMS device or pseudo-device is always treated as though it were a directory file named 000000 . |
| 7 | If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end . |
| 8 | Any work in the house or garden is completely spoilt when the shooting is on |
| 9 | An early printed book which has escaped the attention of the illuminator or rubricator is often described as ‘ untouched ’ . |
| 10 | The claim that foreign learning engenders insight , tolerance , ‘ wider horizons ’ and better understanding of other peoples and cultures is frequently made as justification for teaching foreign languages as part of general , non-vocational education ( most recently in D.E.S . |
| 11 | If Knock is OK and Lourdes is highly commended and the Shroud of Turin is possibly miraculous and the liquefied blood of St Januarius is positive , not negative — then where does the line end ? |
| 12 | The relationship between objectives and evaluation and assessment is clearly stated and is practically based . |
| 13 | The relationship between printer and buyer is then strengthened if , over time , the printer builds up an excellent knowledge of the customer 's business . |
| 14 | However , the boundary between policy and administration is often blurred and civil servants may be led dangerously close to the discussion of policy . |
| 15 | Male aggression in hunting and war is also seen as affected . |
| 16 | ‘ without due care and attention ’ Due care and attention is normally used when the defendant has been careless or has been momentarily inattentive . |
| 17 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 18 | For de Man the opposition of subject and object is neither conflated nor maintained , neither resolved nor left in any kind of productive tension , and the persuasive force of his argument depends upon the very slippage between these two rationales . |
| 19 | For others , such as Miró and Calder , the boundary between painting and sculpture is continually displaced as they search for new ways of combining the two , with the emphasis on space , in the case of Giacometti , or real movement of forms . |
| 20 | The equation of abstract painting and music is long established and provides a genre in which Oulton 's work may be seen against the likes of Mark Rothko . |
| 21 | Thus we find in the tradition of observational analysis ( which in Britain and America is often taken as sociology tout court ) a developing interest in cultural institutions at that point when , through actual social developments in the modern press , cinema and broadcasting , there were major institutions and their products which could be studied by already generally available methods . |
| 22 | The yellow and black banding of bees and wasps is easily remembered and avoided . |
| 23 | This interaction between writer and reader is legitimately described as tragic insofar as literature becomes the site in which the reader is confronted by the tragedy of his/her social condition . |
| 24 | But compensation is only granted if the adviser goes bust and is unable to pay back your money . |