Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child is disabled if he is blind , deaf or dumb or suffers from mental disorder of any kind or is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness , injury or congenital deformity ( s17(11) ) . |
| 2 | To the mind that is morally and intellectually healthy this positive value of doubt can work to its advantage . |
| 3 | Their important quality is that they present a rate of change that is clearly and definitely structured . |
| 4 | There is a notion abroad that if there is a response that is more or less uniformly nice it will suddenly transform the image of the industry for the better . |
| 5 | Here , we need to distinguish the sort of information management that is more or less synonymous with the overall management of a firm 's information technology ( IT ) -based resources from that which has a wider remit . |
| 6 | Members of parliament are not , therefore , individually responsible to the electorate since they are members of a party team that is collectively and directly responsible to the electorate as a whole . |
| 7 | But of the winners only 2 per cent are shown to be better off by £2 a week , whereas 39 per cent of losers will be asked to pay a local poll tax that is more than £2 above their then current rate contribution ( Poll Tax Facts , no. 9 , Local Government Information Unit , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 9 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 10 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 11 | First , if the foregoing appears to ignore questions of democracy within the enterprise that is only because of the order of exposition . |
| 12 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 13 | Public service broadcasting ought to provide a ‘ daily service that is continuously and throughout infused with a sense of its public function ’ . |
| 14 | Where Pamela eagerly restores the chapel in the house in Lincolnshire , the one at Sotherton in Mansfield Park signifies an age that is past and irrecoverable . |
| 15 | What constitutes a procession that is commonly or customarily held ? |
| 16 | The Glass Menagerie is relevant to all young people chafing under the yoke of parental control and is therefore as suitable for young as it id for older audiences ’ |
| 17 | What is noteworthy is that this legislation is not part of the set of legislation that is explicitly and exclusively concerned with censorship . |
| 18 | Listen to almost any modern performance of troubadour or trouvère song … and you will find yourself in a sound-world of instrumental accompaniment that is more or less make-believe . |
| 19 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 20 | Most deaths are caused not by catastrophic accidents but by fouling from oil that is illegally but routinely discharged from ships . |
| 21 | 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement . |
| 22 | She raises expectations by wondering whether drugs might actually embody ‘ the structure that is philosophically and metaphysically at the basis of our culture ’ . |
| 23 | BrdUrd is a thymidine analogue that is readily and specifically incorporated into DNA during the S phase of the cell cycle . |
| 24 | Infants whose parents smoke run an increased risk of bronchitis and pneumonia , which is doubled in the first year and is highest when both parents smoke . |
| 25 | Brown says NT exhibits a superior memory management scheme and is almost but not quite the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 26 | v. We also need to increase the number of Medau classes being taught and if anyone thinks they might like an additional class or is already considering opening one and would like help to promote it , needs an introduction to pave the way with a new Institute , Leisure Centre or other official body or would just like to talk over the possibilities , please get in touch with me — I shall be delighted to hear from you . |
| 27 | However , adoption studies where children of alcoholic parents have been brought up in non-alcoholic families show that genetic inheritance is a stronger predictor of addiction than is home or social background . |
| 28 | In our copy of Roget it is listed as follows You can be quite sure that if you examine all these numbered sections you will find every word in the English language that is remotely or closely equivalent to " jargon " . |
| 29 | And for the biologists again if er if you look at the capillaries in the body , there is no cell in the body requiring a blood supply that is more than one fortieth of a millimetre away from a capillary . |
| 30 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |