Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no remarkable buildings in the town ; there are banks , churches , very many general merchants , and a few bakers , butchers , curing yards , ship-building yards and suchlike , while in the harbour there is some shipping life . |
| 2 | I think the most interesting point here is the tax charge which is two percentage points down on the year before and that really is prior year adjustments , there are other pluses and minuses but that 's a significant reason . |
| 3 | ‘ The trial shows that by careful choice and timing of cultivations and herbicide applications it is possible blackgrass control even in areas where the yield-robbing weed is out of control , ’ explains Ciba-Geigy 's Andy Pigott . |
| 4 | Of note this time round are cosmic headhunters Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band and Praise Space Electric , the twisted 14th Wray who invite you to a ‘ Yuppie Deadhead Party ’ and the mutilated shriek of Boris And His Bolshie Balalaika which is bad drug craziness at its frothing , wild-eyed best . |
| 5 | In research into effective managers it is this background theme which correlates positively with success , not the recognition theme . |
| 6 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 7 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 8 | Of course there is one job specification that would n't appear in the ads for these particular vacancies . |
| 9 | Unless of course there is some evening event . |
| 10 | If that oxygen to the brain should cease for just ten seconds the result is a coma ; after three minutes there is irreversible brain damage . |
| 11 | At present , with Walker circulation flowing west to east at low level there is warm surface water in the eastern Pacific and cool surface water in the west . |
| 12 | Nomura maintains from this level there is more upside potential in Tesco for investors . |
| 13 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |
| 14 | There is an elegant lounge-bar , piano bar and a TV room and in high season there is occasional evening entertainment , sometimes in the panoramic roof garden bar . |
| 15 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 16 | I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens . |
| 17 | This means information which is outside LIFESPAN control such as listings , letters and manuals . |
| 18 | This means information which is outside LIFESPAN control such as listings , letters and manuals . |
| 19 | About halfway between Venice and the modern city of Trieste there is another island lagoon formation at Grado , where settlements were established at the same time as those in the Venetian lagoon . |
| 20 | It 's how we 've , on the actual er vehicles there is actual metal fastenings that 's holding the whole trailer together . |
| 21 | When Neill and Buchanan challenge what is many boxing fans ' most cherished theory , it is worth delving into the social backgrounds of all the world champions and many leading contenders . |
| 22 | No doubt there is other nature present in our garden , but … |
| 23 | As we go to press there is good snow coverage in Verbier — Ed . |
| 24 | Yeah , you 've got three doors which is more storage space than the other one , cos the other one only had a cupboard down had no drawers , what 's the matter ? |
| 25 | The highest part rises to 500 ft on the Wolds which is thin chalk land , the low land is heavy clay with a little sandy gravel . |
| 26 | Last in line for channel one is another pull pot , labelled ‘ Master ’ , with the dual function of reverb level and volume control for this channel . |
| 27 | By which time there is general panic right upstage . |
| 28 | At the garage there is MICRO CHIP WHEEL BALANCING and at the bookshop MICRO FICHE book information . |
| 29 | McGregor ( 1986 ) , for example , reports that in the upper Yallahs basin there is extensive sheetwash erosion , slope failures and extensive gullying . |
| 30 | Throughout the house there is monogrammed kitchen linen , table-cloths , bathroom towels , sheets , pillowcases and all the usual items required in any house . |