Example sentences of "is [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , in Scotland , James 's widow Margaret , the mother of one infant , is pregnant again when she hears the news of her husband 's defeat and death . |
| 3 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 4 | The animals need more energy to propel themselves if the water around them is turbulent rather than laminar and Blake predicts that dolphins are able to reach crossover speeds even if surrounded by a turbulent layer of water . |
| 5 | In particular , the floating charge is practicable only if created by a body corporate , there is a separate system for the registration of company charges , there are distinct statutory procedures for the enforcement of the floating charge , certain provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 affecting company charges are unique to corporate insolvency , and the floating charge can be used tactically in order to veto the making of an administration order . |
| 6 | St Lucia is volcanic rather than coral , so the terrain is much more rugged than that of Barbados . |
| 7 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 8 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 9 | And we may well agree that there is little else that one can imagine existing alone and being of any great value . |
| 10 | So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views . |
| 11 | Whatever the noise , though , the average speed is little more than 40mph . |
| 12 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 13 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 14 | In particular , the relationship between the Panel and the court is historic rather than contemporaneous ( per Lord Donaldson in Datafin at 840 ) . |
| 15 | But they warn that any virus is undesirable even if not destructive . |
| 16 | ‘ At least it is dry now so we are aiming for a real performance . ’ |
| 17 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 18 | Mr. Howell then argues backwards from this that if a school is over-subscribed so that section 6(3) ( a ) is in point , there is a duty not to have regard to preserving the school 's character in deciding priorities because the only permissible way of taking that into account is by section 6(3) ( b ) . |
| 19 | He was salvaged from this desperate scrape by his chauffeur-valet , Livsey , thus proving that truth is stranger even than the fiction of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves . |
| 20 | The stress distribution in any ( except thin-walled cylindrical ) specimens is non-uniform so that torsion tests share with bend tests all the problems associated with non-uniform stresses and non-linear viscoelastic effects . |
| 21 | Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial . |
| 22 | It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical . |
| 23 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
| 24 | They lubricate it with a saliva that is sticky so that the ants adhere to it , and alkaline so that the formic acid of their stings is neutralised . |
| 25 | Such an assumption is strong enough that when one comes across a response that is apparently irrelevant ( as ( ii ) overtly appears to be ) , an inference is triggered that would preserve the assumption of relevance . |
| 26 | The law , she thinks , is strong enough as it stands . |
| 27 | For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it . |
| 28 | Either the union is strong enough and can stand it , or it can t , and hard luck . |
| 29 | Much of this success is due directly and indirectly to Griffith . |
| 30 | It does allow that some religious beliefs could be defended by more rational arguments and by experience , as some people have tried to do , yet the appeal of religions for most people is emotional rather than rational and intellectual . |