Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [coord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the very essence of nature it is eternal and underlies all forms — all qualities — all activity and all things return into it . |
| 2 | Radio is booming and offers excellent potential for the PR operator . |
| 3 | Shaun Skelhorn , who is autistic and has behavioural problems , has been accepted at the Higashi Institute in Boston in September . |
| 4 | Shaun Skelhorn , who is autistic and has behavioural problems , has been accepted at the Higashi Institute in Boston in September . |
| 5 | The Sunwing Club Hotel is Scandinavian-managed and offers high standards of accommodation and a magnificent pool right on the sea 's edge . |
| 6 | The life cycle is direct and given optimal conditions the eggs may hatch and develop to L3 in as little as five days . |
| 7 | Rob is 22 and does voluntary work with young offenders in Sudbury , Nr Colchester . |
| 8 | An abundance of white marble may suggest luxury , but marble is porous and needs careful cleaning to avoid dinginess , while marble floors are icy to bare feet . |
| 9 | Once the investigation of processes embraces such high-magnitude events it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish what is timeless and timebound physical geography . |
| 10 | In contrast with patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis , and to HIV-infected patients in general , increasing age was protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; this paradoxical effect is unexplained but has wide confidence limits and a type I error ( of small numbers ) can not be absolutely excluded . |
| 11 | Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending . |
| 12 | HE oozes self-confidence , is well-spoken and has impeccable manners — an archetypal product of the British public school system . |
| 13 | Books like these contain much music which is transitory but include insufficient hymnody from the traditional repertoire . |
| 14 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 15 | She is chocolate-brown but has fair-coloured highlights ( the poodle was champagne-colour ) , and you 'll also see she has a white beard and a tiny dab of white on one of her back paws . |
| 16 | Pointing to one picture , he will say : " That picture has a good sense of pattern , " another , a good sense of form ; this picture has fine movement ; that picture is lively and expresses much humour , and so on . |
| 17 | The handwriting perhaps prejudices the reader against it , and misspellings like acused , juge , sentencet , can so easily make a teacher feel that the piece is incompetent and deserves low marks . |
| 18 | Before you study how to make notes , you must decide on a system of storage that is simple and gives ready access to what has been written . |
| 19 | In general , the more directly political approach argues that the manner in which the state may compensate for the misery of the periphery is crucial and warrants serious investigation since under certain circumstances it may be possible for state intervention to operate with beneficial , net long-term effects . |
| 20 | The success of Windows has legitimized faxing from a PC — it 's cheap , it 's easy and has many advantages over the conventional fax machine . |
| 21 | The problem has been identified as a floating piece of cartilage in his right knee , which is protruding and causing considerable discomfort . |
| 22 | For example it may not be possible to design a car that is heavier and uses less fuel . |
| 23 | He says he 's delighted and hopes more people will come to see the window . |
| 24 | Add more capability to a software program and you inevitably end up with something that 's bigger and has more machine instructions for the CPU to execute . |
| 25 | In this sense , the English-speaking world can be divided into two broad speech-communities : one in which [ h ] -dropping is widespread and has social significance , and one in which it is so rare ( if it happens at all ) that it is socially irrelevant . |
| 26 | It is commonly assumed that this is widespread and costs enormous sums of money , and that it is a more serious offence than tax-evasion , which in fact costs the exchequer billions of pounds , far in excess of the cost of social security fiddling . |
| 27 | But then they also see exactly what is entailed in having a newborn baby to care for , who does not sleep all day , but cries and is sick and needs constant attention . |
| 28 | Its speciality is rapid and repeated upward scales or arpeggios . |
| 29 | The church is basilican and has three apses at the east end ( 343 and 344 ) . |
| 30 | There is only one tower ( recently restored ) at the southwest corner ; the façade is arcaded and has three doorways , the central one finely sculptured . |