Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have argued for the view that law is differentiated rather than monolithic , we have to stress that there do exist common factors and interrelations , both within specific arenas and within the legal system as a whole , that have to be considered . |
| 2 | But the more independent cat is catching up because so many people are desperate to have pets even though they are out at work all day . |
| 3 | This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it . |
| 4 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 5 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 6 | We need a decision on whether this Million Sterling Tournament is to go ahead or not . |
| 7 | If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead . |
| 8 | Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation . |
| 9 | How much are you smoking ? ’ and I said ‘ About a gram ’ and he said : ‘ Well , all I can advise you is to go out and buy a gram of heroin and just wean yourself off . ’ |
| 10 | The most obvious way of discovering archaeological sites is to go out and look for them — but this is not quite as simple as it might seem . |
| 11 | But for some reason they feel that they 're not as hot on employer work or something like that , so one of the targets might be to get them more used to dealing with employers is to go out and see more , and to set time |
| 12 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 13 | Some of this noise turns up unexpectedly when cruising around the motorway limit , and the only answer is to go faster or slower . |
| 14 | ‘ to grant equitable relief to the defendants in respect of the son 's acts alone without [ the plaintiff 's ] authority or knowledge , is to go further than any decided case has yet gone . |
| 15 | Many would-be newspaper lensmen might assume that before each job the photographer gets a very precise brief from someone like Dermot O'Shea , and that all they have to do is to go off and get the shot . |
| 16 | ‘ Our aim is to go there and make sure United stay at the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 17 | Dressler and Wodak ( 1982 ) argue from experimental evidence that the operation of CSPs is dependent on ‘ attention ’ factors — that is , whether the speaker is articulating slowly and carefully ( see further 8.2.2 ) . |
| 18 | The interest on a fixed-rate CD is calculated exactly as in ( 4.1 ) above , where d is called the coupon rate on the CD . |
| 19 | Your interest is calculated daily and then paid back into your Multipoint Account every year on 1st July . |
| 20 | This is calculated daily and paid into your account every quarter . |
| 21 | Interest on your money is calculated daily and is added to your account at the end of March , June , September and December . |
| 22 | And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it . |
| 23 | It can also act as a dilution guide , when the level of foam is related to concentration and as an activity indicator , whereby the formulation is adjusted so that when detergency is exhausted the foam collapses . |
| 24 | Yes , it is unsaleable at this price of £4914.91 but can be made saleable if the price is adjusted so that a return at the new , higher , current rate of return can be earned . |
| 25 | Well then er there is the documentation which is er entitled part B and part B which is also er contained in three files one , two and three , comprises what are essentially all the relevant documentary er evidence , which is arranged chronologically and events run , as your Lordship will see in due course , from approximately nineteen , mid nineteen eighty five through to the end of nineteen eighty six , beginning of nineteen eighty seven in the . |
| 26 | The detailed arrangements vary according to the type of living accommodation the patient is in , but , if possible , everything is arranged so that the patient , carer , relatives , professional staff and visiting friends all move around without danger to themselves or the household furniture and decorations . |
| 27 | The serial usage is arranged so that in the first half , the ‘ O ’ , ‘ I ’ , ‘ R ’ , and ‘ RI ’ versions are all used at once , as follows : Violin 1 — ‘ O ’ beginning on C ; Violin 2 — ‘ R ’ of the same series as that of Violin 1 ; Viola — ‘ RI ’ of the series beginning on B♭ ; Cello — ‘ I ’ of the series beginning on B♭ . |
| 28 | In the Technosyn equipment , the gun is arranged so that the beam fires obliquely down on to the specimen ( Fig. 6.2 ) and these magnets are not needed . |
| 29 | It 's fantastic ; the lighting is arranged so that you 'd think it was daylight down there . |
| 30 | The hierarchy is arranged so that groups of strong and weak elements at the lowest level themselves form strong or weak elements at the next level up and so on throughout the hierarchy , somewhat in the manner of the hierarchical structure of syntax . |