Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Clearly this is most difficult to achieve when people 's objectives are in conflict , but even then , with skill , a win-win can be secured .
2 In short , enhancing pupil achievement is seen to spring from a more coherent approach to curriculum , assessment and teaching method , seen as an integral whole , and that this is most likely to arise when a school has developed more sophisticated self-monitoring that leads to holistic forward planning , of which INSET is an inherent feature .
3 It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous .
4 This is most likely to happen where the wife has not worked outside the home .
5 This is most likely to happen where the host is a hole nester , like a robin , and where the eggs or chicks are difficult to eject .
6 If a man is to infect a women with Trichomonas vaginalis , this is most likely to occur if he has intercourse with her fairly soon after he himself has acquired the infection .
7 This is most likely to occur if the patient develops a supportive relationship with a partner , close friend , or voluntary worker .
8 However much we may criticize the details of the explanation they offer ( above , pp. 86–9 ) , the clear fact that latent inhibition shows context-specificity ( i.e. is most likely to occur when the context predicts the occurrence of the target stimulus ) constitutes good support for theories that emphasize the role of stimulus predictability .
9 That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility .
10 It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way .
11 The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude .
12 Personal and social development is most likely to occur when students take responsibility for their own learning and seek consciously to develop PSD competences through practice and reflection on their own experience .
13 Relapse in the absence of a precipitating event is most likely to occur when the patient is living in a situation characterised by high expressed emotion between himself and a relative with whom he has a high degree of contact .
14 This is most likely to occur where he agrees with his seller that property shall not pass to him until he has paid for them .
15 It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds .
16 it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form .
17 Well , it 's only polite to say whether if you
18 This is fine if they have an agreement with a large maintenance company , but it 's less likely to happen if the service is provided by the company itself .
19 It 's perhaps fair to say as well that if if er er a member of the public knows that P C Smith or P C Jones is his local policeman , he would prefer to see P C Smith or P C Jones .
20 Frequently a horse that habitually rears when it is mounted is also likely to rear every time it feels anxious , such as when it is passed by a truck on the road or it sees a monster ; but it is especially likely to rear when it is asked to stand still .
21 It is merely concerned to ascertain if there is a material distortion of trade in the EC by reason of differing royalty laws and , accordingly , under Article 101 of the Treaty of Rome , it is then to take steps to eliminate the distortion .
22 These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one .
23 The internalization of the system as a communicative resource is only likely to happen when there is a concentration on symbol to index conversion , when the potential value of symbols is actualized indexically in the process of discovering new meaning ; that is to say , when there is a recurrent association of new schematic knowledge with new systemic knowledge .
24 These applications are not regarded as a mere formality by most courts which may require the originating application to state the grounds in proper detail , for example that the lessor may require to occupy at the expiration of the lease ; that the premises are temporarily surplus to the needs of the lessor ; that the lessee has indicated that he only requires the premises for a limited period ; that there is to be development at the expiration of the term ; that the lessor is only prepared to grant if the section is excluded ; that exclusion of the section has been taken into consideration in negotiations for the rent , or possibly that the premises form part of other premises which brings the provisions of management of the whole into question if the section is not excluded .
25 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
26 It is this strong contrast between the two parts which is so important to maintain whether the dances are in demi-caractère or character ( authentic ) style .
27 The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines .
28 It is extremely simple to make as everything is mixed together all at once , with no special beating or whisking involved .
29 This being said , it is extremely difficult to assess whether net environmental quality is being maintained or improved , since it is difficult to know what value future generations will place on the environments that will be damaged under MPG6 in order to feed development demands .
30 This being said , it is extremely difficult to assess whether net environmental quality is being maintained or improved , since it is difficult to know what value future generations will place on the environments that will be damaged under MPG6 in order to feed development demands .
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