Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 2 | Lots of parents , and the odd nanny or two , provide back-up references for Santa explaining that little so-and-so is really a very good child . |
| 3 | We remember the pain and suffering of millions who have died throughout the ‘ Third World ’ , fighting for the most basic of human rights , and we reflect shamefully on the fact that it is only when the US and their allies face the prospect of their own children dying that this war is truly acknowledged . |
| 4 | And there is no way of checking that bottled water is any cleaner than tap water . |
| 5 | AS SCIENCE gets nearer to proving that thermonuclear fusion is scientifically feasible , concern grows as to the best machine to build . |
| 6 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 7 | Editor , — R J Jarrett has put forward the epidemiologist 's view of gestational diabetes , pointing out the lack of a clear definition , the lack of consensus on treatment , and evidence suggesting that maternal glycaemia is not important in determining fetal size . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 9 | However , with faster hardware likely to be on the market in the near future and the possibility of the emergence of parallel GIS machines , there is some justification for believing that extra effort is both worth while and acceptable . |
| 10 | Those lymphocytes responsible for recall responses have a more rapid turnover , implying that long-lived memory is not maintained by long-lived T-lymphocytes . |
| 11 | If the seismically peculiar D ’ layer at the base of the mantle is the source of plumes , as some geophysicists now suspect ( for example , ref. 10 ) , its volume is such that the present plume flux would exhaust it in a few hundred million years , implying that proto-plume material is quickly cycled through the layer . |
| 12 | In the study by Chacin et al quoted earlier the stimulatory action of ethanol persisted even in calcium free solutions implying that extracellular calcium is not essential for its action . |
| 13 | Complicated tonging and endless blowdrying is out if you 've only got minutes to spare . |
| 14 | As it happens , America has just given both countries a reason for wondering whether that day is nigh . |
| 15 | Many businessmen are complaining that this recession is even worse than that of the early 1980s ( especially in engineering — see next page ) . |
| 16 | Intel is firm in stating that this device is not a 486 with 386 pin outs and point out that the 486 has cache and burst I/O characteristics that require a 486 design on the main board in order to work properly . |
| 17 | ‘ Or seein' if Spooky Cott is really haunted ? ‘ |
| 18 | All hon. Members are consumed by analysing how much money has been spent and whether more money will be made available for particular services , but we do not spend anything like enough time considering whether that money is well spent . |
| 19 | Importing or exporting dirham is not allowed . |
| 20 | I am not saying that that link is not necessary or will not be necessary at some time in the future , but the priority must be to serve the passengers who are paying now . |
| 21 | It goes without saying that this designation is solely a function of the propensity of such locales to attract the very ugliest examples of Homo erectus . |
| 22 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 23 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 24 | Where young people are receiving family therapy , their grandparents and great-grandparents should be included more frequently in the family meeting , acknowledging that later life is still an essential part of family life . |
| 25 | But do n't start moaning that one level is n't a lot , 'coz it 's hugh ( madam ) . |
| 26 | I want them to leave here , knowing that this prison is well run and that its inmates are being adequately dealt with . |
| 27 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 28 | He overlooks the role of reading when direct experience is not possible and when it is not desirable . |
| 29 | Another way of interpreting these results is as showing that explicit training is indeed necessary for context-specificity — in this case the two conditions are presented separately ( i.e. there is a block of reinforced trials followed by a block of non-reinforced trials ) but the arrangement is formally equivalent to the explicit discrimination procedure used by Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1986 ) . |
| 30 | When describing the person in question , a reference to physical appearance is often made showing that physical appearance is very important . |