Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transperitoneal approach to the gall bladder is usually avoided because of the risk of intraperitoneal bile leakage or bowel perforation . |
| 2 | The Freight Transport Association is now wondering if the government will increase the car speed limit in line with Europe , as motoring organisations have been suggesting . |
| 3 | Hard thinking is indeed required because the kind of information which science is dealing with and seeking to extend is quite literally mind-boggling . |
| 4 | There are many results on reputation effects in this context , but these show that entry is always deterred if the time horizon is sufficiently long . |
| 5 | Borrowing and lending stock is officially regulated as there are both prudential and tax considerations : GEMMs are approved lenders and approved borrowers . |
| 6 | But because of the council 's incompetence , which has meant that her rent card is now marked as owing rent , and lacking a deposit , she would be dependent on a somewhat shady mortgage company for the mortgage to buy such a house ( rent cards are the easiest and most common means of checking on the credit-worthiness of a person on a low income ) . |
| 7 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 8 | So often the strength and meaning of a partnership is only revealed when one person is gravely ill or dies . |
| 9 | Fault-response rule reasoning is usually adopted when a ‘ shallow ’ representation of a system is adopted . |
| 10 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 11 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 12 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 13 | It is hard to decide whether the result is better seen as self-indulgent twaddle , or , as Robert Lowell said of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse : ‘ Maybe it 's the ultimate Larkin poem ’ , so maybe this is the supreme Ted Hughes fiction . |
| 14 | The use of an experienced Patent Agent is highly recommended if a patent application is being considered . |
| 15 | Confirmation is usually requested where the exporter is unsure of the standing of the foreign bank or is concerned about ‘ country risk ’ — will the country run out of foreign exchange and be unable to pay ? |
| 16 | Elsewhere , as in Australia , ‘ the half-trained pianist is often accepted as sufficient for the task ’ . |
| 17 | Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs . |
| 18 | We believe therefore , that inter-generational equity is best ensured though the adoption of a precautionary approach to developments such as quarrying and dredging . |
| 19 | We believe therefore , that inter-generational equity is best ensured though the adoption of a precautionary approach to developments such as quarrying and dredging . |
| 20 | The Social Services Department is now deciding whether or not to discipline them . |
| 21 | Your weight is evenly spread when you address the ball . |
| 22 | The aim of the study reported in this chapter is thus to see whether the results of the previous study are still obtained when subjects are not actually aware that the experiment is concerned with subjective risk . |
| 23 | Echocardiography is superficially appealing since the technique is non-invasive and relatively cheap . |
| 24 | Inside , in the original 1902 library , Morgan 's study is fully restored as is the newly lighted East Room with its vault murals by H. Siddons Mowbray and two-storey glass-and-wood cabinets shelving a hoard of rare volumes . |
| 25 | The parent 's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness . |
| 26 | S 159(2) ( C ) , ICTA 1988 is quite specific in stating that availability as a pool car is only granted if ‘ it was in that year not normally kept overnight on or in the vicinity of any residential premises where any of the employees was residing , except while being kept overnight on premises occupied by the person making the car available to them ’ . |
| 27 | The link with the University College is further strengthened because the present Principal of the College , Dr David Morris , also holds the appointment of Professor of Agriculture at University College , Aberystwyth . |
| 28 | Gameplay is naturally limited because of the very nature of the type of game . |
| 29 | On this analysis the medical-legal dilemma is properly identified as being one of determining whether , and if so , for how much longer , further treatment should be continued . |
| 30 | However , and to complicate the issue , it does not necessarily follow that all crime is always viewed as deviant . |