Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , a full point score is likely to be awarded if someone is floored by a strong mid-section attack . |
| 2 | If someone is registered as an independent financial adviser , it is his or her duty to give independent advice and that adviser is regulated by the appropriate body to do that . |
| 3 | And if we can learn more about their sensitivity to ultrasonic sounds , we may finally grasp how they can ‘ know ’ that someone is approaching from a great distance . |
| 4 | Motives , at their simplest , are the underlying reasons why someone is behaving in a particular way . |
| 5 | The tram rail is carried on trailer 751 , which is fitted with a hydraulic crane for loading and unloading . |
| 6 | The microscope used was the ISI60A at the British Museum ( Natural History ) , which is fitted with an environmental chamber . |
| 7 | I am the owner of a 1977 109 Hard Top which is fitted with the original 2,25 litre petrol engine . |
| 8 | The mains output socket SK1 is a Euro-style snap-in type which is fitted into a suitable cutout on the rear panel . |
| 9 | The opulent lounge , with monumental wooden fireplace , the bar , with tasteful vaulted ceiling , and the luminous dining-room are housed in the old mansion which is connected to a larger , modern building which houses the bedrooms . |
| 10 | Around 30 or so of the larger lakes remain , mostly composed of heavy crude oil which is solidifying into a sticky , semi-viscous non-porous layer . |
| 11 | The planning principle of converting the barrack-like main blocks of these buildings into flats has been the exploitation of the 4.2m ( 14ft ) standard height of each classroom by siting a mezzanine ‘ sleeping gallery ’ on the internally located kitchenette/bathroom areas , overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room which is lit by the large and lofty classroom windows . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not Leavis 's goal to produce " national intellectuals " to serve as state missionaries , but rather a free.floating and critical educated class , membership of which is characterized by a particular kind of mental orientation : " It is an intelligence so trained that is best fitted to develop into the central kind of mind , the co-ordinating consciousness , capable of performing the function assigned to the class of the educate . " |
| 14 | The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person . |
| 15 | Titian 's ‘ Tribute Money ’ , which is displayed in a free-standing case , is almost invisible behind the reflection from the windows . |
| 16 | It is the lens which completes the refraction of the rays of light as they pass through the posterior chamber ( which is filled with a jelloid substance , the vitreous humour ) . |
| 17 | It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle . |
| 18 | Using an electronic sampling method which is locked to the same frequency as the supply voltage it is possible to derive a direct relationship between the voltage detected and the position of the stylus on the sheet . |
| 19 | Using an electronic sampling method which is locked to the same frequency as the supply voltage it is possible to derive a direct relationship between the voltage detected and the position of the stylus on the sheet . |
| 20 | This is where the market research which is analysed in the first three parts of the planning cycle can help . |
| 21 | The world becomes a community , which is influenced by the small elite who control the media . |
| 22 | Applications of the technology include individual houses in Germany and Switzerland that generate power during the day which is fed into the national grid , from which power is drawn at night . |
| 23 | It comprises a tractor-mounted injection unit in the field which is fed through an umbilical hose running from the storage point . |
| 24 | Basically what happens is that lava and other material is ejected from a hole in the ground , or crater , which is fed by a single pipe-like supply channel extending deep down below ground . |
| 25 | Females have two equal sex chromosomes , called ‘ X ’ , but males have only one X chromosome , which is partnered by a smaller one , the Y chromosome . |
| 26 | The type of doubt which is generated by a weak sense of personal conviction is not always immediately apparent . |
| 27 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 28 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 29 | Consider for example the case of the avoidance of brother-sister incest , which is based to a substantial degree on an inhibition developed during close domestic association in the first six years of life . |
| 30 | The study , which is based on a fictitious less developed country , illustrates that , although the GNP of some countries may appear to be growing , their " real " economies may be in decline . |