Example sentences of "[pers pn] is now [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | It is now critical that investment begins again in both people and equipment , otherwise smaller UK manufacturers will not remain competitive in international markets and capture the business which is necessary to increase the country 's employment and wealth . ’ |
2 | The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained . |
3 | It is now apparent that too much weight has been attached to tool using . |
4 | It is now apparent that poor readers can be meaningfully divided into two groups . |
5 | Moreover , following a study that failed to show superiority of intravenous nutrition over polymeric feeding or oral food with parenteral supplementation , it is now apparent that complete bowel rest is not essential for achieving remission in acute Crohn 's disease with nutritional treatment . |
6 | I hope it is now apparent that soft conventionalism is not really a form of conventionalism at all in the spirit of the tripartite distinction among conceptions we are now using . |
7 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
8 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
9 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
10 | For it is now certain that she left Shrewsbury on the cart that was returning with gifts from the devout to our needy and afflicted abbey . |
11 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
12 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
13 | It is now certain that Malta 's coach , Pippo Psaila , could not predict what Scotland 's team will be , for the simple reason that even Roxburgh does not know the answer to that one yet . |
14 | It is now probable that despite conservation measures — China budgeted $895 million on this in 1981 — there will be shortages until 1985/6 . |
15 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
16 | It is now essential that an output model is adopted with the student achievements being expressed in competency terms . |
17 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
18 | LATE NOTE : It is now possible that this will have to be switched to the Public Hall . |
19 | It is now dear that Waite 's involvement was peripheral and that he was used by North as a cover to conceal the true reason for Jacobsen 's release . |
20 | It is now elementary that the tort of negligence involves three factors : a duty of care , a breach of that duty and consequent damage . |
21 | Ernest Gowers , a very far-sighted man , had no hesitation in suggesting a separate council for Scotland and this is what happened ; it is now inconceivable that there could be any other arrangements . |
22 | It is now clear that hominoids emerged in East Africa , presumably showing behaviour similar to but diverging from that of other ape-like creatures . |
23 | It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view . |
24 | It can be said in conclusion that these developments have become central to the future of the ‘ GIS revolution ’ of the late 1980s , since it is now clear that the massive ( and desirable ) growth of the use of GIS can not be supported without improvements to the use environment experienced by the user . |
25 | It is now clear that dinosaurs were supreme for 130 million years , and that mammals co-existed with them , albeit small and insignificant through most of that time . |
26 | Such criticism was premature , as it is now clear that in many parts of the world long dead-straight trackways were laid out and , in several cases , are still used . |
27 | It is now clear that the counsellor is doing more than listening . |
28 | Although it is now clear that Sutherland 's attempt to fit , indeed squash , corporate crime into his theory of differential association has not proved comfortable , and that his concentration on the economic as opposed to the physical and social effects of corporate crime made his study too one-sided , it none the less did , at the time , constitute a rich legacy to bequeath to criminology . |
29 | It is now clear that if the scheme had been adopted it would have had disastrous results . |
30 | So far as demand management is concerned , however , it is now clear that from the 1950s to the mid 1960s budgets were substantially in surplus and hence deflationary [ Matthews , 1968 ] . |