Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company . |
| 2 | It is widely accepted that this system ‘ has nothing to teach us ’ . |
| 3 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
| 4 | More usually it is loosely defined as any increase in GDP , even when that is within the existing production frontier . |
| 5 | It is that in a conditional sale agreement the passing of property to the buyer is expressly postponed until some condition ( usually all the instalments being paid ) is fulfilled . |
| 6 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 7 | For this the sore is gently scraped and any fluid that exudes can then be looked at under the microscope . |
| 8 | However , that disc distress is greatly increased when these workers find that their ex-bosses opens another business with another name , just over the road or in the same premises . |
| 9 | The representation of the interests of a particular group is greatly clarified if that group is also able to construct an antithetical image ( for the details of this argument see Miller 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 11 | If the early nineteen nineties are as testing a time for U S and U K markets as many people predict I 'm nonetheless confident that Pearson is better placed than most companies to withstand this . |
| 12 | It is better manned , it has more resources and it is better equipped than any police force in British history . |
| 13 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 14 | The house is tastefully decorated and each room has an individual character , each with its own colour TV . |
| 15 | The course for the degree of BMus is broadly based and former students are to be found in all walks of musical life in broadcasting , recording , publishing and musical administration , as teachers , writers , performers , composers , conductors and instrument makers . |
| 16 | It is generally conceded that such words have at least a Component of meaning that resists truth-conditional treatment ( Grice , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ; Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 17 | The working paper dealing with this topic argues that ‘ it is generally recognised that some prescribing is wasteful or unnecessary expensive . |
| 18 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |
| 19 | Many claims are received in respect of cigarette burns to furniture , carpets etc. and although there has been no actual ‘ fire ’ , it is generally accepted that such claims can be considered as fire damage . |
| 20 | It is generally accepted that this theory accords better with the view of modern science and is superior to that of Kant . |
| 21 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 22 | Lampreys and hagfishes lack a differentiated stomach , and it is generally assumed that all agnathans were similarly microphagous with no need for a stomach . |
| 23 | It is generally assumed that all spreadsheets will benefit from fast calculation but this is n't necessarily so . |
| 24 | It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll . |
| 25 | It is generally agreed that these redshifts are caused by the expansion of the Universe . |
| 26 | The effect of the Sicilian experience on Yeats is disputed by Yeats scholars , but it is generally agreed that some effect there was . |
| 27 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 28 | Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low , while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea . |
| 29 | It is easily seen that these conditions are identical and reduce to just , the condition governing the critical frequencies of the constant-k prototype . |
| 30 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |