Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde . |
| 2 | THE hunt for a missing Essex teenager who disappeared after visiting a three-day pop festival at Bramshott Common last year is to go nationwide in an attempt to find her . |
| 3 | That batch , the most intriguing of all , has included in recent months five members of the Grand Slam squad — Leonard , who is recovering well from a neck operation but must rest , Morris , Pears , Rodber and Heslop . |
| 4 | I point it out because it is hidden away in a lot of business about freedom of information and other issues about which he is so keen . |
| 5 | This order may be obtained whether the courts are sitting or not , if a ‘ prima facie ’ case is make out to a judge of the High Court . |
| 6 | If such a tube is placed vertically into a tank of water the level of the water in the tube will rise above that in the tank . |
| 7 | Each prospective members is checked out by a KSA officer , and the standard of its installations in monitored . |
| 8 | The landscape is broken only by a string of wine villages . |
| 9 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 10 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 11 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 12 | The only giggle ( not a niggle , this time ) I 've had is that , in common with most of the new GST range , the BoP box is filled mostly with a chunk of pink polystyrene — a case of more is less ? |
| 13 | His apparent personality as an ungeneralized individual is a literary illusion ; he is regarded instead as an object of a form of general moral evaluation and judgement that probes the mores of medieval commercial and commercialized life from a conventional standpoint that is , paradoxically , radical and fundamentalist . |
| 14 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 16 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 17 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
| 18 | MARTINA Navratilova is courted tonight in A Celebration of 100 Women at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | The stage is tucked away like a box in the wall . |
| 20 | Now she 's stepping blithely through a door |
| 21 | Its position as the Epic of the Romantic Age is still not beyond question , firstly because it is treated simply as a verse autobiography , and secondly because it combines poetry and philosophy . |
| 22 | Lyotard 's notion of the figural is formulated partly as a critique of Lacan 's dictum that the unconscious is structured like a language . |
| 23 | Target profiling is undertaken initially as an overview and subsequently in greater detail , by which time ideally the following information and assessments should be provided about each possible target subject to availability : |
| 24 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 25 | American search is examined here as an introduction to the arrival of this phenomenon in Britain ; this analysis owes much to research published by John Byrne in The Headhunters . |
| 26 | If a complaint is received directly from a member of the public , or if further information about the complaint is needed , the matter will be taken up in correspondence . |
| 27 | All the information on one general subject is gathered together into a FILE . |
| 28 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |
| 29 | The allowance is given either as a trading expense or as a deduction from patent licence income ( see s528 ) . |
| 30 | A list is given here as a reminder : |