Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say the human brain is at its most receptive when it is young . |
| 2 | family that we know and th , they 're , one of their sons is fo erm in London I suppose erm adapt here and he 's rather upset because she is now coming over to Britain to work for Telecom ! |
| 3 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 4 | The curve is , however , something altogether different since it is the effective , as opposed to the notional , demand for labour function : its position is determined by the effective demand for goods which will , in turn , depend upon the magnitude of . |
| 5 | It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident . |
| 6 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 7 | This view appears disarmingly general but widely acceptable when it is stated as the idea that any economy has to be seen as only one part of a structured world system . |
| 8 | Children were to be subsumed within the dwelling to this notion of order : " Teach your children that a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air , and when the floors and walls are clear . |
| 9 | Now imagine we lift a marble above the table ( Fig. 1b ) we can call the raised-up position state A and table level , state B. Here , the object is only stable when it is on the table . |
| 10 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 11 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 12 | In other words , a successful multimedia system must offer an interface with its user , so friendly that it is effectively transparent . |
| 13 | I trust I have provided enough reasons to show that the use of the phrase ‘ pain in animals ’ is so indefinable that it is meaningless to animals and to those who have the well-being of animals at heart . |
| 14 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 15 | Easter Island , where the traverse starts , is entirely volcanic but it is really only an insignificant scrap of land in the vast Pacific . |
| 16 | Now I do n't stand here in any sense of defending these salaries , in fact I think our policy is entirely right and it is not inflationary . |
| 17 | The lack of clarity may be so total that it is comparatively meaningless to seek to identify a policy or to study its implementation . |
| 18 | Marking here is somewhat subjective and it is hard to give general guidelines beyond the obvious one that the aim of the marker is to help the student do ( even ) better next time . |
| 19 | Indeed , the research evidence is so strong that it is now reflected in the high incidence of work teams , ‘ away days ’ for functional groups and courses in team-building . |
| 20 | Another milestone was passed in 1989/90 with more than 200,000 candidates registering for one or more modules for that year ; indeed the growth in the number of candidates has been so strong that it is likely to pass 225,000 this year , a rise of more than 15% . |
| 21 | NEWCASTLE United yesterday sent a written offer to Celtic for Roy Aitken reportedly so low that it is likely to be returned to St James ' Park unopened . |
| 22 | The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them . |
| 23 | One vet on his or her own almost inevitably gets absorbed into a larger one , or fees must be kept so low that it is n't profitable . ’ |
| 24 | Equally , science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities . |
| 25 | Eliminating between these equations gives or on separately equating the real and imaginary parts The second of these two relations simplifies to and substitution of this condition into the first yields Equations ( 8.34 ) and ( 8.35 ) , representing the conditions that must be satisfied to procure total rejection , become much simpler if it is assumed that , for they then reduce to Evidently , if and , total rejection occurs at a frequency close to . |
| 26 | The legislation is not only unnecessary but it is , it could set industrial relations back years in this country . |
| 27 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 28 | It is especially weak when it is pulling against the expectations of firms and consumers , and when it is implemented too late . |
| 29 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 30 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |