Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more valuable model which is widely used is the three-element model termed the standard linear solid — consisting of two springs and one viscous element ( dash-pot ) or two viscous elements and one spring . |
| 2 | What is most needed is rational dialogue based on a liberal education . |
| 3 | What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case . |
| 4 | A vote is not a coin which , tendered to make a purchase , retains its full value even though what is eventually bought is the purchaser 's second or third or fourth or fifth choice . |
| 5 | It is implied here that however destructive they may be , the actions of a noble man can not involve sin and that the apparent passivity to which the hero is eventually reduced is actually his highest activity . |
| 6 | Whether it is thereby improved is , of course , a matter of opinion . |
| 7 | That this is rarely understood is a direct consequence of the combined influence of the state-centrist idea and the dependency thesis , both of which consistently confuse the power of the First World with the power of the TNCs , and the weakness of the Third World with the presumed weakness of its economic institutions . |
| 8 | One of the important aspects of country house building that is rarely demonstrated is the basic structure — your photograph shows , in admirable clarity , the arrangement of load-bearing walls ( and , incidentally , a precarious water tank in the roof ) which are the bones on which the skin and organs are built . |
| 9 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 10 | Another major demand on woodland which is rarely discussed is the fuel requirement for cremating bodies , especially in eastern England where many thousands of cremations may be represented at a single cemetery . |
| 11 | The emphasis on medium , form and aesthetic grammar would suggest that , whatever their ‘ content ’ or ‘ effect ’ , they are somehow different ; at the simplest level , saying that a history or sociology book is badly written is different from saying that a novel is badly written . |
| 12 | What is badly needed is a pan-European initiative for an economically and ecologically meaningful transport system and corresponding infrastructure . |
| 13 | One family tradition which is rigorously upheld is the big soul-food blow out which they all enjoy whenever Sheila returns from a tour , or when a TV project is over . |
| 14 | An indication of whether this change is successfully negotiated is the size and composition of the secretariat . |
| 15 | In the context of schooling one significant issue that is paradoxically neglected is the ‘ rationality ’ of the working-class students ' resistance to antiracist curricula and classroom discussions in so far as this resistance is bound up with a more generalized opposition to the degrees of surveillance , discipline , authoritarianism and class domination involved in conventional forms of schooling . |
| 16 | All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it . |
| 17 | number six er what this is basically saying is we want to do two point history structural maintenance erm fire drill but anything that 's been taken out of this budget in that area , we should replace by from that . |
| 18 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 19 | The usual rule of thumb is that a model may be hit if half or more its base area is covered by the template , while a model whose base is only grazed is not hit . |
| 20 | What is perhaps missing is that element of spontaneity which serves to project Haydn 's originality in a more vivid manner . |
| 21 | What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa . |
| 22 | What is less known is the extraordinary diaspora of Goan professionals . |
| 23 | Although the ban is sufficiently wide to be capable of applying to the officer who conducts the suspect to the parade , the mischief at which the provision is obviously aimed is the risk of contact between the identifying witness and the officer involved in the investigation . |
| 24 | … the paradigm of development as it is generally understood is not suited to explaining change in mature organisms . |
| 25 | Americas Watch stated that ‘ As best we can determine , torture as that term is generally understood is not practised in Nicaragua as a means of eliciting information or confessions , nor as a form of punishment ’ ( Americas Watch 1984 ) but its report goes on to detail cases where harsh interrogation techniques were used ( see also Amnesty International 1982 ) . |
| 26 | However , that the strain on some families , especially female members , is thus increased is indisputable and makes the case for complementary support , through organised local endeavour , all the more compelling . |
| 27 | The complex which is thus formed is doomed to early repression ; but it continues to exercise a great and lasting influence from the unconscious . |
| 28 | Only a Russian would find all that surprising , or fail to understand that freedom which is not misused is not freedom at all . |
| 29 | What is not recorded is the tom-cats ' attitude to this helpful form of health care . |
| 30 | In England everything that is not prohibited is permitted . |