Example sentences of "[adj] be [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were allowed a relative degree of freedom , but others , like the Dutch East Indies , were kept under direct military rule , largely due to the importance of their natural resources . |
| 2 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 3 | This is called a labelled graph . |
| 4 | This is called a cloud-point curve . |
| 5 | This is called a Preferred Point Geometry . |
| 6 | My worst dive was when on descending a sudden shock of cold water hit my tooth sending a shock wave up my nerve the nerve ran through a sinus causing extreme pain this is called a dental trauma I had to abandon the dive immediately . |
| 7 | This is called a lateral eruption . |
| 8 | This is called a coronary thrombosis or just ‘ a coronary ’ . |
| 9 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 10 | In some cases the effects of the blockage can be so severe that the heart stops beating altogether and this is called a cardiac arrest . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly this is called a low-angle thrust fault . |
| 12 | Gon na go on now to talk about a severe condition which may start out that with a minor skin rash like this , this is called a petechial skin rash they later progress to rather more generalised rash and in it 's most severe form it 's mucrotic |
| 13 | This is called a data-bank system and a good example is the pupil record system which is kept in a secretary 's office . |
| 14 | This is called a lunar month . |
| 15 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 16 | This is called a vertical micro-instruction format : some examples ( from the Burroughs B1700 computer , taken from Burroughs 1972 ) are given in Figure 3.22(b) . |
| 17 | This is called a scientific novelty . |
| 18 | When the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun it is seen from the Earth to move across the Sun , and this is called a solar eclipse . |
| 19 | In military parlance this is called a fast retreat . |
| 20 | This is considered a healthy state of affairs , and encourages free debate within the privacy of the boardroom . ’ |
| 21 | However , we know very little in a systematic way about the circumstances under which this is considered a desirable option , or the terms under which young people live in a relative 's household . |
| 22 | By this is meant a severe inferiority complex . |
| 23 | This is termed a direct effect of sex on absenteeism . |
| 24 | More important , lest this be thought a linguistic quibble , without them a system of government lacks the legitimacy a constitution gives and a political system the protection it offers . |
| 25 | This was called a branching programme as distinct from a linear programme which contained no loops . |
| 26 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 27 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 28 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 29 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 30 | The second is given a light touch , so that banality is skilfully kept at arm 's length , and an elegantly phrased Andante precedes a finale which has a confident , dignified , uplifting quality . |