Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They say that no need has been proven or is ever likely to be . |
| 2 | Dealers are confident that the market has stabilised or is even on the up-turn . |
| 3 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 4 | If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem . |
| 5 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 6 | The necessity to offline may arise when the storage disks are becoming full , or if a certain package/package structure does not need to be stored online because it has been superseded or is no longer part of a live project . |
| 7 | Slowly add the 1:1 nitric acid to the mercuric nitrate with constant stirring until the milky precipitate just dissolves or is just about to — approximately 8 drops of acid is usually sufficient . |
| 8 | Inside , the triforium is often omitted or is just a decorative band , while the nave arcade is of great importance . |
| 9 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 10 | Indeed , if the system has been well designed and is well run , it should stimulate demand for more and different types of information . |
| 11 | If the top of the egg is exposed to a sufficient dose of ultraviolet irradiation the nucleus is inactivated and is functionally useless while the cytoplasm is unaffected . |
| 12 | The airframe , apparently in excellent shape , is complete with 1–16 engines installed and is currently displayed in the Pioneer Village Museum located in Nebraska . |
| 13 | A new Petrie and McNaught stainless steel scouring machine costing £430,000 has been installed and is almost operational with test runs being undertaken . |
| 14 | Owing to the crescendo , the 2nd clarinet , when once it has entered , can not be dropped and is therefore carried on . |
| 15 | Difficulty with breathing , wheezy ; must sit up to breath and is much worse ( < ) for any exertion . |
| 16 | Although it is generally true that increasing age exerts an unfavourable effect on outcome of diseases and medical interventions , this influence is weaker than is generally supposed and is mainly due to age-associated disorders . |
| 17 | There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium . |
| 18 | Whereas I teach my dogs to disregard game birds and deer , the lurcher is very competent at acquiring the skills of poaching and is usually the animal to accompany deer and game-stealing gangs wherever they operate . |
| 19 | In addition to the ‘ A ’ signal box from Crewe Station which has been rebuilt on site , the centre has acquired the 131-level Exeter West box which has been rebuilt and is currently being refitted . |
| 20 | One has disappeared , but its ash house remains ; another has been rebuilt and is now the main farm . |
| 21 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 22 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 23 | The Hindus believe also that the universe periodically dissolves and is then recreated . |
| 24 | Aldus ' PageMaker , the doyen of the Macintosh desktop publishing world , took rather longer to migrate onto the PC that had been expected but is now very firmly established . |
| 25 | But if the reality is allowed to stand but is also understood as a metaphor for the experience of all women , then I believe Mary can speak to our condition . |
| 26 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 27 | You see , four of us going up and down twice a day , morning and evening , makes sixteen times altogether , and Mr Evans thinks that 's quite enough traipsing . |
| 28 | Perhaps the Prime Minister thinks that is too modest . |
| 29 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 30 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |