Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Difficulty with breathing , wheezy ; must sit up to breath and is much worse ( < ) for any exertion .
2 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 .
3 The feeling of comfort is basic to a sense of well-being , but it is difficult to define and is often most notable in its absence .
4 Staff time taken with such enquiries is difficult to evaluate and is probably underestimated in many Job Descriptions in Annual Staff Reports .
5 Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back .
6 A statement from the new pressure group says clubs throughout the Foyle area feel that even with the continuing decline both in Irish stocks and water quality , the Commission has allowed over-fishing by netting to continue and is not adequately funded to deter or prevent poaching and the continued degradation of water quality throughout the system .
7 So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed .
8 The nature of the right hemisphere 's contribution has yet to be determined precisely , but it may turn out that this half of the brain has a more elevated role to play than is customarily believed .
9 It comes from a third-party source DG declines to identify and is already used in high-end sites .
10 This utility has too many features to list and is definitely worth getting .
11 The Antarctic ozone ‘ hole ’ in the stratosphere that splashed across the headlines in 1988 , has continued to grow and is now the size of the USA .
12 In this larger social setting each adolescent has a particular role to play and is usually aware of their own status within the group .
13 But is not the Prime Minister 's decision to opt out of the social charter — — ’ opt out ’ were the words that he used — an admission that , after 12 years of Tory rule , the economy is not as sound , robust and healthy as the Government try to claim but is so fragile that it can not support the most basic workers ' rights that will be enjoyed in the rest of Europe ?
14 Although the previous scale had the advantage of corresponding to actual measured accident statistics it proved relatively awkward for subjects to use and is clearly subject to what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms logarithmic response bias .
15 Ensure that the oven is simple to use and is not a pilot 's cockpit
16 It is delightfully easy to use and is particularly suitable for large classes .
17 Are they clear and easy to understand or is too much going on ?
18 When the negative feedback is large enough to satisfy as is usually the case at least over the intended , operational frequency range , the closed-loop gain is and .
19 He 's obviously neglected his job and let the club go to pot and is generally a frightful old bugger and an excrescence .
20 Unlike novation , assignment involves the transfer of property namely the rights in relation to a contract which continues to exist and is not extinguished .
21 I I do n't wish to , to quibble but is actually a cost minus basis industry is not being paid its full costs for this programme , they 've been paid a percentage less than the cost they actually incur .
22 Professionally-based community care is here to stay and is increasingly needed , backed by access to respite and long stay hospice beds and acute ward facilities .
23 Fund raising , as we know , is here to stay and is now a way of life .
24 Trust takes time to develop and is not always possible in the short time available for pre-operative preparation .
25 Contrasted with the large-scale effects in some other areas , such as office work , warehousing and process control , the impact on R&D type activities has been slower to develop and is still a fairly new phenomenon other than in its basic role as an aid to designers .
26 It is hard not to emphasize the negative aspects when you consider what Hong Kong still has to offer and is fast losing .
27 She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money .
28 He 's urging them all to act and is n't worried that the politicians will accuse the church of interfering .
29 The liquor is left to cool and is eventually turned into harmless glass blocks .
30 This is a way of giving employees more cash as an incentive to move and is particularly common in the banking sector .
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