Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Pahdra and I require is unquestioning encouragement and support . |
| 2 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
| 3 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
| 4 | The language of urban people , to the extent that it is ‘ modified ’ , is modified vernacular : it can not be adequately explained in terms of modifications to the ‘ standard ’ ( in which many speakers show no interest at all ) . |
| 5 | But if the work is oral history , it is literature too — a disclosure of predicament and bereavement . |
| 6 | This is oral history project tape number two of Mr Jack of . |
| 7 | This is oral history project tape number two of Mr Melville , of eleven , Close , Ipswich in Suffolk . |
| 8 | An alternative approach to reducing phenylalanine accumulation is oral treatment with the enzyme phenylalanine ammonia lyase . |
| 9 | As these features are not found together in any group of cocoa varieties already in cultivation , this is definite evidence that we have added some new genes to the ‘ gene pool ’ of cultivated cocoa . |
| 10 | There is PCB-burning capacity in Sweden , Finland , Germany and France , of which only the last is , like Britain , prepared to import such waste . |
| 11 | In Indomalesia , there is concentrated interest in fewer than 100 species with exports of 12 or so . |
| 12 | She explained that animals in the wild do n't get enough energy , and sugar is concentrated energy . |
| 13 | The sun is never visible ; it is eternal twilight . |
| 14 | The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 15 | Coming back to handwriting , the price of safety in autograph collecting , like that of freedom , is eternal vigilance . |
| 16 | The price of solitude in the modern world is eternal vigilance . |
| 17 | But this disagreeable , though trivial , episode was a reminder that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance . |
| 18 | ‘ If any part of nature excites our pity , it is for ourselves we grieve , for there is eternal health and beauty . |
| 19 | How reliable is monetary policy in controlling monetary variables ? |
| 20 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 21 | Its subject coverage is mainstream geology , and its geographical interests are world-wide . |
| 22 | Its subject coverage is mainstream geology , and its geographical interests are world-wide . |
| 23 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 24 | Well , the insurance company seem to have got it into their heads that If Greg Martin is alive Mom might be too . |
| 25 | Despite considerable urban development , particularly on the coast , most of this plain is agricultural land of the highest quality and intensively cultivated . |
| 26 | This is agricultural land leased to a local farmer and is out of bounds . ’ |
| 27 | Before actual fracture occurs , in the sense that the specimen separates into two pieces , there is extensive flow , something like a viscous liquid , in the body of the material . |
| 28 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 29 | There is extensive charity legislation , the Charities Act 1960 and other scattered statutes and the Charities Act 1992 ( hopefully soon to be consolidated ) . |
| 30 | Of course , there is extensive dislocation at headquarters , but our branches will be functioning as normal . |