Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] is [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a debt or liability is deemed valuable consideration whether the bill is payable on demand or at a future time . |
| 2 | The subjective threat perceived in rejection by a spouse or lawyer is given cultural expression and concrete content in the concept of sasoo , which refers to a malevolent mara ’ called a ‘ sasoo woman ’ or ‘ sasoo man ’ , that may attack the rejected party . |
| 3 | Coal mining or farming is using natural resources . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the task for the teacher or therapist is to examine all aspects of the child 's language , using whatever devices are available , with the objective of generating an assessment which reflects both strengths and weaknesses in the three areas , and indicates the extent to which difficulties identified in each of these areas may or may not be interrelated . |
| 5 | Under the porticoed frontage , where music is played most evenings , you can sip a drink and watch the world go y . |
| 6 | Where two join , the larger stream or river is called 2nd Order . |
| 7 | The main aim of Franz Coetzee 's intriguing study For Party or Country is to explain this phenomenon through an examination of the outlook and activities of three of the larger groups : the Navy League ( NL ) , the Tariff Reform League ( TRL ) , and the Anti-Socialist Union ( ASU ) . |
| 8 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 9 | Any mental picture will require interpretation , and this interpretation will be another mental operation , which , on the view that thinking is having mental pictures , will be another picture , which itself will require interpretation , and so on and so on . |
| 10 | As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything . |
| 11 | The fine weather enjoyed by the island ensures that cricket is played all year round . |
| 12 | Thus the process is extremely complex and will require a great deal of scientific endeavour , though a recent breakthrough ( Díaz et al. 1989 ) regarding the role of root lectins , which are carbohydrate-binding proteins , in determining host specificity suggests that science is making considerable progress on this problem . |
| 13 | It also serves to reinforce the idea that if accounting is to reflect economic reality it is unlikely to be able to do so using only one cost/value measure . |
| 14 | In addition to their list of French phrases and advice , National Tyre and Autocare is offering free holiday safety checks at all of their branches . |
| 15 | A major programme of renewal and modernisation is transforming public transport in London — including the biggest expansion of London 's rail network since the 1930s . |
| 16 | The purpose of the exhibition and station is to increase public awareness of the role played by radio in war-time operations and , hopefully , to make contact with many people , whether radio amateurs or not , who can help in achieving the aims of the Society either from personal experience and knowledge of historic equipment or from a special interest in the subject . |
| 17 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 18 | Mitigation can be provided for the defendant if evidence is given that bits of string or sticky tape showed where ‘ L ’ plates had been fitted . |
| 19 | People in London and Stockholm may get better suntans , but in Africa the likelihood of drought and famine is magnified many times ; and , as icecaps melt , the sea level will rise , flooding many low-lying areas . |
| 20 | Thoo 'll pay t'full price — nowt knocked off , even if thoo is wed ti' oor Tamar . ’ |
| 21 | If stratification is having little effect on the dynamics of the turbulence , we know that the velocity gradient in the region under consideration is given by eqn ( 21.17 ) , t |
| 22 | Clearly if AI is to have some role within avionics fault diagnostics it must provide systems with a wide range of capabilities . |
| 23 | This 17th-century farmhouse and watermill is situated 1,100 feet up in the beautiful and rugged mountain countryside of the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 24 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 25 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 26 | On 28 February , the President of the College Art Association sent a letter to the NEA chairman expressing concern with ‘ allegations that a conservative staff with ties to the White House and Congress is asserting bureaucratic control of policy and process in contravention of NEA mandate ’ . |
| 27 | Almost every high street building society and bank is offering fixed-rate deals in the ten to eleven per cent band ( the APR is slightly higher ) which offer borrowers anything from five years to 25 years of stability . |
| 28 | If geomorphology is to achieve full stature as a branch of geology operating upon the frontier of research into fundamental principles and laws of earth science , it must turn to the physical and engineering sciences and mathematics for the vitality it now lacks . |
| 29 | Attempts by the party leadership to stall the demands for greater autonomy until its review of organisation and structure is completed next year will be keenly fought on the floor of the conference hall . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |