Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A further difference in style between the firms is whether the culture of the organisation is centred around one or two key people or is broadly based and spread across all the consultants .
2 Under TA 1988 , s677(10) there shall be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement any sum which is paid by them to a third party at the settlor 's direction or by virtue of the assignment by him of his right to receive it or is otherwise paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor and which would not otherwise be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor .
3 These are factors which decide whether the specimen is initially handled as a solid and disaggregated after fixation , or is immediately disaggregated and handled from the outset as a cell suspension .
4 A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange .
5 It is also often unclear whether it is being claimed that the bureaucracy is truly multifunctional or is merely recruiting and socializing its own members , articulating their interests , or acting as ‘ one of the main channels of political struggle in which and through which different interests are regulated and aggregated ’ ( Eisenstadt 1963 , p. 112 ) .
6 Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape ; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material .
7 This is a problem that is easily overlooked when viewing a property , and can be a genuine problem in the future .
8 5.20 Keyholders To ensure that at all times the Landlord has [ and the local Police force has ] written notice of the name home address and home telephone number of at least [ 2 ] key holder[s] of the Premises While this is not necessarily objectionable it is a provision that is easily overlooked and imposes an obligation on the tenant which may not be appropriate in the circumstances .
9 LTP is q phenomenon that is easily produced and manipulated by classical neurophysiological techniques , so its popularity as a potential memory model is scarcely surprising .
10 Well the money would be very welcome at a company that is again finding that computers are a gurgling cash drain , and a single outside investor is very different matter to a host of fractious small shareholders and institutional investors .
11 It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it .
12 The main contribution of CLE-I is substantial coverage of English constructions in both syntax and semantics that is well motivated and hence extensible ; in contrast to SPAR , it was not built mainly with anaphor resolution in mind .
13 It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm .
14 The communication between the members of the colony depends on a system of chemical exchange that is badly disrupted if the temperature rises too high .
15 But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected .
16 Boston 's solution is to look to the example of Cuba , where she recently found it ‘ exhilarating to see a third-world nation that is adequately fed and healthy ’ .
17 In the case of trends in tobacco smoking ( and by implication of trends in the diseases to which it contributes ) the sum of Australian experience supports the view that centrally coordinated action that is adequately funded and deliberately built on broad based support can speed the fall in smoking prevalence .
18 In such a situation it is possible for the parent 's self control to snap and in a moment of aberration he may strike the child in a manner that is instantly regretted and most unlikely ever to be repeated . ’
19 But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed .
20 That is to say , your study will provide you with the knowledge that is generally accepted as making up the subject .
21 As used here , it is also confined to a type of disorder that is normally described as ‘ functional ’ .
22 But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife .
23 Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background .
24 As it does with anything that is widely liked and appreciated , this modern money-mad world has made the rose big business , and the plant obeys all the ups and downs of fashion , high pressure competition and selling — even racketeering — as do pop records , clothes and motor cars .
25 We have the freedom to travel nearly anywhere in the world , English is a language that is widely spoken and understood , most of us have at least a basic secondary education and we have the training resources and ability to go , we do not take full advantage of it .
26 The Piaroa definition of ideal maturity for men is identical to that for women ; but the Shavante define ideal manhood as the achievement of a state that is both opposed and superior to the feminine .
27 Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage .
28 Each sufferer from addictive disease tends to have one favourite " drug of choice " that is particularly craved although some sufferers may have two or more " drugs of choice " that are equally craved .
29 Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach .
30 Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates .
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