Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 2 | The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate . |
| 3 | They ca n't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes does n't seem important to you . |
| 4 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 5 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 6 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 7 | The measure of ‘ other sources of income in employment ’ is calculated along the same lines as for unemployment income . |
| 8 | Here the oral pore although quite superficial is hidden by an opercular papillae , the distalmost in the oral series . |
| 9 | More generally , the effectiveness of the production system depends on the way the social system is adjusted to the technical requirements ( Emery and Trist , 1960 ) . |
| 10 | This confusion between providers is compounded by the different definitions used by departments and agencies to identify their clients . |
| 11 | An example of this is the basic flat bench press ; by performing the bench press with the bench inclined at an angle of 30°s ; , the emphasis of the exercise is placed on the upper pectorals . |
| 12 | Therefore great reliance in these studies is placed on the excavated sites of Pompeii , Herculaneum and Ostia where , due largely to natural causes , the site was abandoned , preserved , not rebuilt and excavated in more modern times . |
| 13 | All of this is a testimonial to the belief that when the emphasis is placed on the practical experiences of individuals and communities rather than on ideologies , and when the grassroots leadership of people is developed rather than theories and constitutions , then workable solutions can be developed which are adapted for both local and the national situation by those people who have to put these solutions into practice at the sharp end of the stick . |
| 14 | If the bench press is done on a decline , the emphasis is placed on the lower pectorals , giving men a strong outline to the lower chest , and women a muscular development which creates the impression of a larger bust . |
| 15 | The mirror is placed onto the fixed clips , pushed back against the wall , and the sliding clips are pushed in to hold it in place . |
| 16 | It is touching on the social sciences in the sense that Woodrow Wilson was an important political figure , and there is an historical dimension . |
| 17 | There is some evidence that the history of policing in England and Wales contains much more resort to the stick and fist than is recognized in the orthodox accounts . |
| 18 | The lively , contemporary quality of the stories is emphasized by the attractive illustrations . |
| 19 | Kuhn 's relativism is emphasized in the concluding sentences of the postscript to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . |
| 20 | He is fascinated by the different programmes , awed by the machine 's speed and complexity . |
| 21 | The discussion is biased towards the cognitive processes involved during reading , with spelling considered as an adjunct which uses ( and misuses some of the same processes . |
| 22 | Such application ( because the property is registered in the joint names of the husband and wife ) requires the signatures of both husband and wife and the submission of the land certificate to the registry . |
| 23 | It is situated on the Eastern outskirts of a large industrial city , with a fairly high level of children from different ethnic origins . |
| 24 | The Port of Leith is situated on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth in position 55°59 North , 3°10 West and approximately thirty miles from the open sea . |
| 25 | The Hotel de France is situated between the two resorts of Rimini and Riccione and is the only three-star hotel in Rimini featured by Citalia which stands right on the beach , but also has its own private swimming pool . |
| 26 | It is situated in the picturesque surroundings of Cosmeston Lakes Country Park , near Penarth and is only 15 minutes by car from the centre of Cardiff . |
| 27 | But this old world tranquillity of the hotel is broken by the frenetic demands of the rock star 's retinue of security guards and personal cooks . |
| 28 | Her progress is delayed by the 400 parents and friends who have all decided to move to the edge of the parade ground to ensure they get good seats for the parade . |
| 29 | ‘ Our best chance is to drive along the secondary roads in the Ardennes into Luxembourg . |
| 30 | Their prime responsibility is to attend to the political affairs of the nation : rightly understood , a task so important and exacting that they should be distracted from it as little as possible by the relatively trivial business generated in their surgeries . |