Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal and quashing the order , that the judge had failed to specify the fees to be disallowed and had adopted an inappropriate procedure ; and that , in any event , there had been no unreasonable act or omission capable of founding an order under section 19A of the Act ( post , pp. 665G — 666B , G ) . |
| 3 | But that 's been the pattern of our lives , we often get offered the same part and I can honestly say there 's been no professional jealousy or rivalry at all . |
| 4 | She felt as happy about the news as she would have done if the baby had been a future niece or nephew . |
| 5 | Very likely there would have been a further coolness or misunderstanding and they would have parted . |
| 6 | I am no great lover or defender of the legal profession . |
| 7 | Unless you are a great actor or orator avoid any verse over four lines long . |
| 8 | are a diagnosed diabetic or glaucoma patient |
| 9 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 10 | Non-members may use unbooked courts or play a game with a member on payment of the day membership ( guest ) fee ; unless you are an early bird or night owl where the guest fee is waived for players vacating courts before 09.00 or on court after 22.30 . |
| 11 | Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text . |
| 12 | That will undoubtedly be the political battlefield or frontier in the months ahead . |
| 13 | Challenging though the course is , the lessons are laid out well for the beginner and the tests can be the fill-in type or multi-choice . |
| 14 | Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press . |
| 15 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 16 | There may be no moral turpitude or manipulation as such . |
| 17 | There would be no further debate or referendum — just a headlong plunge into something of disastrous consequence . |
| 18 | It follows from his identification of body and extension that there can be no empty space or vacuum , no Epicurean ‘ void ’ in which the atoms move . |
| 19 | This can be a shallow glass or plastic dish 10 cm × 10 cm or bigger , with a sheet of glass to cover it . |
| 20 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 21 | Two applications in respect of the same premises may be heard together , even if one is by a new applicant and the other is not , Such a situation arises , for example , when the present licence-holder and a person claiming , with the owner 's consent , to be a new tenant or occupant , both lodge conflicting claims for renewal . |
| 22 | Eventually the state came to be a repressive tool or instrument serving the interests of a new ruling class based upon the ownership of capital not land . |
| 23 | Experience teaches.a lot as to whether or not a phenomenon is likely to be a genuine signal or background noise , but there is still a twilight zone , the tantalising occurrences which are probably noise but might possibly be signal . |
| 24 | A central feature in improved access via natural language may be a computer-based thesaurus or lexicon that is not used in indexing , but which shows all the word variants and relationships between terms that the searcher might encounter in natural language searching , and is available both for display and to expand and develop search strategies . |
| 25 | A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern . |
| 26 | We wo n't stop shipping Open Network Computing ( its own distributed solution ) , ONC is recommended , and we do n't have an answer on whether DCE will be a third party or Sun offering . ’ |
| 27 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 28 | The notion that consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal presents a serious problem for doctors . |
| 29 | Underneath the name was what seemed to be a short biography or curriculum vitae . |
| 30 | This may be a particular segment or sector of the environment or it may be as intensely focused as the search for a particular piece of information . |