Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transperitoneal approach to the gall bladder is usually avoided because of the risk of intraperitoneal bile leakage or bowel perforation . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps we 're all wrong about Mons. Perhaps Napoleon is just swinging open the front doors and ignoring the back gate . ’ |
| 3 | Would-be delinquents in Saltash during most of the Nineteenth century had to face up to the threat of a short , sharp punishment ; a visit to the ‘ Black Hole ’ under the escort of one of the ancient borough 's best known characters , ‘ Nandie ’ Keast . |
| 4 | As Stephen Parrish points out in discussing the very earliest ‘ complete ’ draft ( Ms JJ ) , the embryonic Prelude is best understood as an extension of the structure of Tintern Abbey : ‘ The last poem Wordsworth wrote before leaving England was Tintern Abbey , completed in mid July , and the affinities between Tintern Abbey and the autobiographical verse he began to write in Germany three months later help to point up The Prelude 's earliest design ’ ( Introduction to the Cornell edition ) . |
| 5 | They are not caused by individual neurosis , but it is being asserted that religion is best understood as if it were a symptom of a neurosis of humanity as a whole . |
| 6 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 7 | Morality may not be the same as religion — although in many of the great religions this distinction is not clearly perceived — but sincerity in pursuing religion is normally expected to carry with it sincerity in pursuing a high moral code . |
| 8 | Religion is thus allowed to speak for itself . |
| 9 | Religion is often castigated for encouraging an attitude of dependence upon authority or tradition , which is at loggerheads with the attitude of taking responsibility for oneself . |
| 10 | A deeper analysis of religion is therefore needed — one which can affirm , instead of being rather dismissive of , the intuitions behind the confessional approach which has the merit of taking religious claims to truth seriously . |
| 11 | The widespread presence of secularism does not mean that religion is totally eclipsed or reduced to the status of a literally insignificant minority interest . |
| 12 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 13 | At a time in their lives when self-image is intricately interwoven with feelings about sexuality and identity , young women talk about how they feel when they look in the mirror , and what they feel from the inside , looking out . |
| 14 | The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility . |
| 15 | The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility . |
| 16 | Research in the Arts is mostly conducted on an individual basis and it is not possible to do full justice to this activity here . |
| 17 | The International Association of Women in the Arts is also planning a series of events in Madrid in September , as well as its AGM and conference which will take place from the 28 September to the 2 October . |
| 18 | Without these criticism lacks intellectual rigour , and is unable to justify itself adequately in a world in which the personal and social utility of the arts is increasingly called into question . |
| 19 | Student involvement in the arts is especially encouraged and as well as the theatre being used regularly by the Department of English , Media and Theatre Studies for productions and teaching , the University Drama Group and the Ballet and Contemporary Dance Society regularly use the Riverside for their own public presentations . |
| 20 | Student involvement in the arts is especially encouraged and as well as the theatre being used regularly by the Department of English , Media and Theatre Studies for productions and teaching , the University Drama Group and the Ballet and Contemporary Dance Society regularly use the Riverside for their own public presentations . |
| 21 | Now ethnic arts is really playing for a very small number of people . |
| 22 | Although Cal Arts is now associated with a distinctive West Coast style , Baldessari was influential in bringing in East Coast and European artists — Joseph Kosuth , Robert Smithson , Lawrence Weiner , Daniel Buren , Hans Haacke , Sol LeWitt . |
| 23 | Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers . |
| 24 | The information inherent in the crude remedy is thus transmitted to the diluting fluid by means of the energy contained in the succussion process . |
| 25 | It is particularly important when using this scale that your remedy is well selected . |
| 26 | The remedy is not to leave me . ’ |
| 27 | However , in two important respects the Misrepresentation Act 1967 has removed some bars to rescission so that s1 provides that , whether or not the representation has become a term of the contract , or that the contract has been fully performed , the right to the rescission remedy is not lost . |
| 28 | If the remedy is not indicated it will be ignored by the body and will have no effect , and if it is indicated it can only be beneficial . |
| 29 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 30 | In the early stages if no other remedy is clearly indicated or if Aconite seems to be indicated but does not help at all . |