Example sentences of "[noun] and [is] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going through this book the reader is put firmly into the cockpit of this awesome aircraft and is given a fascinating insight into an SR-71 sortie . |
| 2 | Kathleen Walker-Shaw is that officer in Brussels and is doing a magnificent job on your behalf . |
| 3 | Indeed , this is often referred to as waffle stitch and is used a great deal in garment pattern production , either alone or in combination with other tuck patterns . |
| 4 | Lloyd 's Register , which carries out structural surveys of ships to enable them to be insured , believes that structural failure was to blame for many of the losses and is mounting an urgent investigation to establish whether this is the case . |
| 5 | The INLA has also revamped in the past two months and is posing a new threat in North Belfast , where 80 RUC officers have been drafted in to halt the escalating spiral of violence . |
| 6 | Gradient Technology , Hudson , Massachusetts , author of an Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) product for Windows 3.1 , is negotiating with Novell Inc and Apple Computer Inc to develop DCE products in their environments and is considering a DCE-Lite version for MS-DOS , according to Computer Reseller News . |
| 7 | It serves in the adaptation of home products abroad , makes use of local talent and is considered an effective public relations tool . |
| 8 | Springfields is supporting several events including a Lancashire Industry exhibition and illuminations in a local park and is providing a mobile play facility to Preston neighbourhood unit . |
| 9 | On the same site , the air to water scrubber is a successful first stage in the planned control of odour emissions and is making a noticeable impact . |
| 10 | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts in San Francisco is known for such reprints and is offering an impressive range in 1993 . |
| 11 | The organisation , formerly known as Operation Raleigh , has a new logo and is considering an above-the-line campaign to boost its image revamp next month . |
| 12 | It bears all the characteristics of a tax and is called a social security tax in other countries . |
| 13 | If a man lies on the ball and is given a good rucking he will think twice about doing it next time . |
| 14 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 15 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |
| 16 | THE equine star of BBC 's Trainer has been sold at Ascot Sales and is to have a new career as a three-day eventer . |
| 17 | The Government is to amend the Environment Protection Bill and is expecting a rough passage through the Lords where a select committee is already examining the NCC 's scientific base . |
| 18 | ‘ The ITO movement is the invisible giant of training and is playing a major role in establishing the new national vocational qualifications . |
| 19 | The buyer of the estate has now taken over some 2,700 Black Face and North Country Cheviot ewes and is adding a small herd of Charolais cattle . |
| 20 | And Britain is once again a country that has found its pride , regained a high reputation in the world and is playing a leading role on the international stage — both in Europe and beyond . |
| 21 | ‘ Britain is once again a country that has found its pride , regained a high reputation in the world and is playing a leading role on the international stage — both in Europe and beyond . ’ |
| 22 | Each of the solutions found for the Schrödinger equation ( quantum mechanical wave equation ) for a one-electron atom can be regarded as relating to one of a set of orbitals , which is characterized by a unique combination of quantum numbers and is given a corresponding symbol , such as 1s , 2p , etc . |
| 23 | A research team in Edinburgh has discovered a substance previously undetected in young babies and is beginning a three-year study which may prevent future cot deaths . |
| 24 | A research team from Edinburgh has discovered a previously undetected substance in young babies and is launching a three-year study which might prevent future deaths . |
| 25 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
| 26 | Germany received 256,112 asylum-seekers last year and is expecting an estimated 400,000 this year . |
| 27 | Various factors could prevent the tenant from commencing to trade within a specified period and where a tenant has fitted out the premises and is paying a full rent ( or using up a rent free period ) the tenant would hopefully only delay opening for trade for a good reason . |
| 28 | The chef that evening , Nigel Alexander , originally from Stockton , has returned to the north after four years as a chef in London and is given a free rein with the menu . |