Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the project is due to run for another year , the county council 's planning department hope information will be made available this summer . |
| 2 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 3 | Is that saying in another way that perhaps we should push this over to consideration onto the P A G , there are n't any meetings today , but there will be the V A T I suppose . |
| 4 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 5 | Also between Hindscarth and Ronsingon , it is possible to descend from any point along this ridge to the Buttermere valley . |
| 6 | As a result , it is possible to see in such groups the collective responses normally associated with shopfloor workers . |
| 7 | Reagan absorbed many other valuable lessons from his experience as governor of California and it is possible to see in this period the evolution of a style of executive leadership that he was to take with him to the White House . |
| 8 | It is possible to see from these studies that differences between deaf people and hearing people are small when the language differences are taken into account . |
| 9 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
| 10 | In Section 6.3 , we showed that it is possible to pivot from any BFS to any other BFS through a sequence of BFSs . |
| 11 | Although overall this view is still widely held , it is possible to point to several cases of reversal when , for example , agriculturalists reverted to hunting and gathering . |
| 12 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 13 | It is possible to sympathize with these arguments , but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies . |
| 14 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 15 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 16 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 17 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |
| 18 | Alternatively , it is possible to mitigate against any loss by arranging insurance cover . |
| 19 | Raising the suspension will not improve off road driving but will be detrimental to on road driving It is possible to get to most places with a standard vehicle suspension or heavy duty suspension |
| 20 | That is as genuine an example of a knee-jerk reaction as it is possible to get in this place . |
| 21 | Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain . |
| 22 | It is possible to compensate to some extent for the lower sensitivity by reducing R2 to 470Ω in value . |
| 23 | It is possible to play from this mode through the PC speaker — a useful facility . |
| 24 | Further , Hayek argues that constructivist rationalists are guilty of ‘ the synoptic delusion ’ ; that is , the belief that all relevant social facts are capable of being known to some one mind , and that it is possible to construct from this knowledge of the particulars a desirable social order . |
| 25 | Ergonomics is sometimes confused by questions such as , who is the ergonomist servicing — the employer or the worker ? or , to whom is he ultimately responsible — the state , the employer , the producer or the consumer ? fortunately it is possible to dispose of these issues without taking up any particular political position . |
| 26 | From the significant number of representations of bull-leaping on frescoes and sealstones , it is possible to reconstruct with some confidence the events that took place in the Bull Courts . |
| 27 | Issues inevitably arise too over the representativeness of the relatively small samples which it is possible to involve in such studies . |
| 28 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 29 | Four archways show the scenes in areas 60–63 , and it is possible to walk through these archways to appear within the area in question ( a one-way portal , alas ) . |
| 30 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |