Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One essential requirement , before attempting to fly a model equipped with a gyro for the first time , is to ensure that the gyro is working in the correct sense . |
| 2 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 3 | Entry is achieved in the same way as any other type of module via a package and an active DC . |
| 4 | Judicial policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is examined in the third section . |
| 5 | The basic pull-out torque/speed characteristic in this region can be deduced from the static torque/rotor position characteristic and the relationship between the two characteristics is discussed in the next section . |
| 6 | This type of partnership is described in the 1990 Act as a ‘ multi-national partnership ’ ( ‘ MNP ’ ) . |
| 7 | White Spot Icthyopthyirius multifiliis is less common in ponds than in aquaria , but once the parasite is encysted in the familiar pinhead ‘ Ich ’ spot the fish is headed for death unless treated . |
| 8 | For STH the least significant half of the specified accumulator is deposited in the specified half-word location in store . |
| 9 | But it would prevent the press from publishing calumnies which can not be answered , as in the Beck case , sometimes until weeks or even months after the allegation is made in the public arena of a court . |
| 10 | Molar loss in the kestrel and hen harrier samples and the mammalian carnivores are all lower than expected , although still high , but the most extreme molar loss is seen in the little owl and short-eared owl assemblages . |
| 11 | The outlook in the UK is still gloomy , McAlpine says , borrowings short-term will rise , and a small loss is anticipated in the first half ; but site costs are down , and site visits are up sharply . |
| 12 | The musical analogy is one to which she herself alludes : her interest in jazz is displayed in the constant movement of forms which allow the viewer 's eye no rest and in her references to urban popular culture , particularly in the ‘ Coney Island ’ series . |
| 13 | The battery compartment is located in the same place , so you wo n't have to shred your hand through the soundhole to effect a changeover . |
| 14 | Here the agent is investing in the small artist , trusting the manager 's judgement that this act should go on to be the next big thing . |
| 15 | BELLE EPOQUE : the fin-de-siècle charm of nineteenth-century Brussels is preserved in the glittering halls and clanging lifts of the Métropole ( Lower Town , 31 Place de Brouckère , telephone 02/2172300 , cost : 6,000fr ) . |
| 16 | Fraud is defined in the New Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus as ‘ deliberate deception , trickery , or cheating intended to gain an advantage . ’ |
| 17 | The silver is stored in the strong room . |
| 18 | The context , rather than phonological evidence , tells us that silver is given in the above example and that the new element therefore starts at needs . |
| 19 | The final stitch is finished in the usual way , by pulling the yarn end through it and pulling tight . |
| 20 | The Music Department is housed in the elegant 19th-century Dalriada House , adjoining the modern and well-equipped headquarters of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education . |
| 21 | The Music Department is housed in the elegant 19th-century Dalriada House , adjoining the modern and well-equipped headquarters of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education . |
| 22 | The car 's pointing in the right direction . ’ |
| 23 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 24 | Matt said with satisfaction , ‘ At least the billy tea is made in the approved fashion . |
| 25 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |
| 26 | Where amounts are included in debt representing instruments in respect of which the claim that would arise on a winding up is significantly different from that at which the instrument is stated in the financial statements , the amount of the claim that would arise on a winding up should be stated . |
| 27 | It will be assumed in this book that a ( relatively ) closed set of lexical units is stored in the mental lexicon , together with rules or principles of some kind which permit the production of a possibly unlimited number of new ( i.e. not specifically stored ) units . |
| 28 | The price of the units is quoted in the Financial Times . |
| 29 | But narration is seen in The Dear Deceit as the original and persistent obstacle to ‘ truth ’ because the process of constructing a story inevitably leads to falsification . |
| 30 | Most of the research is produced in the major industrialised nations , which have huge university systems , active research laboratories and which spend large amounts on research and development . |