Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is this that one is seeking to transmit and show , and it is this which is the key to the wholehearted and free contribution of the individual .
2 It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it .
3 Reaction to the latest rise makes it clear that everyone is watching out for another eruption of internal discord on the exchange rate between Sir Alan Walters in Downing Street , and Mr Lawson in the Treasury .
4 Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue .
5 Here are some sentences in which two consonant sounds are identical to look at but sound slightly different because one is voiced ( the vocal cords vibrate ) and the other is unvoiced .
6 Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief .
7 Regional studies seem more appropriate if one is to assess colonic permeability .
8 ( One can of course question whether or not the axioms are appropriate if one is trying to model a concrete example . )
9 In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else .
10 The clothes themselves are for children aged nought to six and everything is made in this country , 80 per cent exclusively for Young England .
11 Although this seems clever when one is told about it , a few minutes-hands-on experience demonstrates that it is not AI at all — it is a parlour trick .
12 But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more .
13 It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate .
14 Well I mean , everybody goes to Robert does their off shore survival which takes you into helicopter survival and l launching lifeboats off the platform and life rafts ev and er that done I mean you get your certificates and what not for that and everybody is to get refresher courses every two or three years , I 'm not really sure which .
15 In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town .
16 At present little or nothing is known about these patients .
17 Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed .
18 Complex problems can arise where one of the purposes is lawful and one is regarded as unlawful .
19 ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth .
20 Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid .
21 The basic principles in deciding what to grow remain unchanged whether one is growing one , a hundred , or a thousand .
22 If this is to be a spinnaker leg , hold onto the hoist until you are sure that no-one is going to luff you , but be ready for a quick hoist .
23 4 Draw up the rules with the legal requirements in mind and make sure that everything is covered .
24 Also for the audio tour and generally for making sure that everything is kept on an even keel historically and that people keep on the right lines .
25 Er we we have we just make sure that everything is told to the prospect on the phone .
26 ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK .
27 Only by a careful understanding of the market place can one be sure that one is thinking in the appropriate dimension and take full advantage of scale economies .
28 To be really sure that one is dealing with a fossil fern it should be possible to see the spore cases , because other kinds of plants can produce fern-like foliage .
29 So we 've got to the situation then where erm we are making sure that nobody is gon na put us in a position whereby they can cause us problems .
30 Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming .
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