Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of a corporate culture which deals appropriately with risks is most important . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 3 | A French scientist said ‘ Most of the work to be done in science and the useful arts is precisely that which needs the knowledge and co-operation of many scientists that is why it is necessary for scientists and technologists to meet — even in those branches of knowledge which seem to have least relation and connection with one another . ’ |
| 4 | The kind of criticism that is appropriate in the performing arts is quite different from that in technology , which again differs from the nature of criticism in philosophy . |
| 5 | Not that the crowd at Le Palais noticed , of course : British audiences ' antipathy to homegrown rappers is as legendary as it is ignorant , but the real surprise was the startlingly similar response for Pete Rock & CL Smooth . |
| 6 | Macedo 's vision of preservation for the forest and its peoples is very different from the Utopian fantasies of many in the developed world who profess a passionate concern for Amazonia . |
| 7 | Feedback is given , and a ‘ help ’ section with examples of the categories and their combinations is always available . |
| 8 | The record of hemichordates is moderately good ; the organic tubes of rhabdopleurid pterobranchs have a fair preservation potential , and the Burgess Shale ‘ Ottoia ’ tenuis may be an enteropneust similar to the extant acorn-worm Balanoglossus ( unpublished observations by S.C.M. ) . |
| 9 | A rounded picture of later life over the past two or three centuries is thus impossible . |
| 10 | The most striking aspect of prison reform over the last two centuries is how little of it there has been . |
| 11 | The slightly artificial air of the settings is entirely apt to the theme of façades maintained over emotional chasms or rushing torrents of erotic feeling . |
| 12 | The turning to the legs is particularly attractive here . |
| 13 | The skin covering the backbone and the ends of the legs is more difficult to detach . |
| 14 | THE DEVELOPMENT of arms and legs is very important in its own right , and it provides one of the best model systems for analysing how an organ develops once the body plan has been laid down . |
| 15 | The inclusion of birth weight as one of the enrolment characteristics is probably inappropriate . |
| 16 | The approach to leadership purely in terms of individual characteristics is also deficient in that it does not take into account the relationship between the leader and the followers . |
| 17 | So let's put an apostrophe on the s of teachers and then husbands is clearly plural because the teachers were plural , and we th , we talking in plurals , so after the s in husbands . |
| 18 | We are bound to see certain hot spots where the mixing of large numbers of bikes and large numbers of walkers is not tenable and that is where some form of management is necessary . |
| 19 | This has the effect that high concentrations of carbonic acid can be attained in cold regions even though the rate of production of carbon dioxide by organic activity in such environments is relatively low . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the timing of the injections is very important . |
| 21 | At the 1987 election Mrs Thatcher stressed that she favoured radical policies : a Conservative leader proclaiming the case for radical solutions is somewhat unusual . |
| 22 | The difference between the two methods is most obvious , when the precision of the point estimate is allowed to include a 95% ( SD ) confidence interval of ( 2.5 ) % . |
| 23 | The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research , but here is shown to be most valuable . |
| 24 | A wide variety of safe and effective methods is now available for obtaining a cytological diagnosis in patients with biliary strictures . |
| 25 | However , the choice of rule based or corpus based methods is still contentious . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , dating by such methods is still rare . |
| 27 | A 0–60mph time of 9.0secs is slightly disappointing but 0–100mph in 22.0secs gives a better clue to its ground-covering potential . |
| 28 | Optimism about the prospects for European equities is also high , although the level of interest lags behind the United Kingdom , while the slide in Tokyo has significantly reduced interest in Japanese equities . |
| 29 | Decorating your Christmas tree with chains made up of red chillies is just one of the original ideas in the company 's seasonal title Malcolm Hillier 's Christmas ( Price : £12.99 ) . |
| 30 | Particularly if the year intended in the lists is indeed 833 — these actual death dates may be an indication that this entry should , however , be dated a year earlier , i.e. 832 -but in any case in view of the general chronological uncertainty , Rajab 834 appears to fall within an allowable margin of error ; and one would therefore be reluctant to dismiss the circumstantial account of a contemporary biographical source in favour of a too-strict adherence to what seems to be the slightly uncertain evidence of the chronological lists . |