Example sentences of "[conj] is [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently it either accumulates in the trench or is scraped off the downgoing plate and forms wedges of sediment on the inner ( arc side ) of the trench . |
| 2 | The NI has always been sceptical about the value of government-to-government overseas aid , which too easily finds its way into the pockets of an elite or is wasted on the wrong kind of project . |
| 3 | Some of them must be : for children to see their parents on their knees in the privacy of their own room ; a spiritually disciplined life that is accepted as the daily norm ; the absence of prolonged marital discord coupled with complete honesty with each other , a deep awareness of personal loyalty to God and to each other . |
| 4 | Very anxious to promote the Wales in Europe scheme because it 's been very important to us , including the links that er we have been able to build up with other regions of Europe in Catalonia , , Lombardy and Battenberkaburg above all er which our our sort of strong erm er neighbours which can teach us a lot about industry and these are the areas that we will want to link up with by having this extra seat in the European parliament , er and obviously I mean there are sorts of areas where we have some sympathy with the occasional point that is made by the anti-Europe speakers on the other side . |
| 5 | This method avoids the full demands upon parliamentary time that is made by the better known procedure for considering general , or public , legislation . |
| 6 | Lastly we want to sort of clear up some of the mess that is made by the previous conservative registration . |
| 7 | But it is an assumption that is made throughout the developing world , where current energy plans would cost $100 billion per year . |
| 8 | There is up and down this country a crisis in the regions that is exacerbated by the British Government over additionality . |
| 9 | The Seya-Namioka type monochromator contains an anastigmatic concave diffraction grating and line spectra produced using this monochromator do not exhibit the characteristic shoulder on the side of each peak that is caused by the coma-type aberration . |
| 10 | With regard to the public interest , the important figure is the sum that is realised for the Scottish Bus Group as a whole . |
| 11 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 12 | This is the view that is echoed by the communitarian critics who argue that the agency of reflection of liberal theories is that of the ‘ unencumbered self ’ and that this model fails to appreciate the constitutive character of the self . |
| 13 | The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) . |
| 14 | Ideally , it will reflect the characteristics of the model , eg comprise a series of interrelated subsystems , have resources for its own use , an expectation of continuity , and be part of a wider system that is influenced by the surrounding environment . |
| 15 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 16 | The shells power all the Exchange 's plant , and also provides a small surplus that is fed into the local grid . |
| 17 | The urinary output of 5-ASA reflects the fraction that is absorbed in the small intestine , and that is not therefore available for the topical effect ; the faecal concentrations represent the residual 5-ASA present in the bowel lumen . |
| 18 | The lower pool holds the main body of water that is pumped to the top one to return via the fall . |
| 19 | Indeed , this may be an example of popular expression of those worries that arise from the criticism that is engendered by the public choice approach . |
| 20 | In some cases it may be the consumer 's conduct that is regarded as the sole cause of the damage : e.g. the poodle in the microwave oven . |
| 21 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 22 | It is this basic equation that is presented in the familiar Keynesian cross-diagram in Fig. 10-l(a) . |
| 23 | It is this kind of situation that is indicated in the first objective in the examples above . |
| 24 | Also , the open D that is played at the last 16th of bar 1 may have been accidental , and if you agree with this you might wish to play the B on the 9th fret of the D string instead … |
| 25 | The guiding principle of that research has been the idea that the personality differences partly reflect underlying physiological differences in the brain , each person having a characteristic temperamental make-up that is represented at the biological level as a ‘ type of nervous system ’ . |
| 26 | The extreme reductionist approach that is represented in the above quotation , and is apparent again and again in his writings , not only in The Origin of Species but in many of his later books , is conspicuous by its absence from early plant ecological texts and is barely represented in the ecological literature until towards the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | It is one of the 12 excellent pictures by this artist that is featured in the 1992 RAF Museum Calendar . |
| 28 | However , it loses the contrast that is developed in the fourth and fifth paragraphs in English : ‘ There are others … |
| 29 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |
| 30 | Zebrafish pax[b] ( pax[zf-b] ) is a member of the Pax gene family that is expressed in the presumptive posterior midbrain from the end of gastrulation and , at later stages , in other localized regions of the developing embryo . |