Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] [verb] [coord] " 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it .
10 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 .
11 But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed .
16 Clearly we are dealing here with a feline phenomenon that is not isolated and accidental , but more a regular , typical feature of cat behaviour .
17 But this does not apply to the " second " report — the one that is not published but kept in your files .
18 But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept .
25 The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature .
26 Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level .
27 Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict .
28 It has to be a genuine partnership at Cabinet level and all levels of coalition government of the sort that is absolutely established and highly stable on the continent . ’
29 Send a letter that is then lost or damaged ;
30 Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year .
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