Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The farmer , Colin French , who 's received more than sixty convictions for cruelty to his animals , has started a three month jail sentence .
2 This Act embraces a vast number of persons holding public office of a specified sort ; it is amended regularly as new offices are created and persons appointed to them .
3 Normally the program counter holds the store address of the next instruction to be executed , and is incremented appropriately as each instruction is executed .
4 Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) .
5 The reward is given only if a desirable behaviour occurs and the punisher is given only if undesirable behaviour occurs .
6 No offence is committed even though this notice will have no effect ( see section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , paragraph 9–03 above ) .
7 It is modified continuously as external data is received and transformed into information .
8 However , the exemption might not apply , for example , if an offer is modified so that overseas shareholders in the target are not offered consideration securities because of overseas securities laws which prohibit the offer document being posted to them ( or permit the offer to be made but subject to onerous filing requirements ) .
9 In a photoionization process , on the other hand , any energy from the incoming photon over and above that needed to ionize the molecule is carried away as kinetic energy of the electron ejected from the molecule ; conservation of linear momentum is generally accomplished by recoil of the ion formed .
10 If a confirmed reservation is cancelled less than 4 weeks before the course starts , the fee is forfeited .
11 EXCESS — This Clause is designed so that variable excesses can be shown on the Policy Schedule .
12 Each program is designed so that most students complete it in 45 to 50 mins , ie. the average tutorial hour .
13 It 's expected more than 1,000 soldiers will move in next year .
14 Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light .
15 Unfortunately they may also prove a hindrance if BSL is presented only as manual English , through the tutor 's adherence to English or through the other necessity of providing English syntax for deaf people one is in contact with , since ‘ it will help their English ’ .
16 If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs .
17 The request is made so that each question can be marked throughout the whole pile of scripts in one operation , before the next question is examined .
18 Where an application is made more than 24 months after starting Approved Practical Experience , they are also required to confirm that they have satisfied these guidelines in the period to date .
19 When , for example , a subject fitted with scalp electrodes over the auditory cortex is played a series of brief clicks through headphones and the EEG following each click is averaged so that random fluctuations cancel each other out , what is left is a systematic but complex pattern of electrical waves which is caused by the click in the same way that the waves on the surface of a pond are caused by dropping a pebble into it .
20 So , whether we look purely to the way in which a corpus sustains itself internally , or to the production of new perspectives for the corpus , or to the intermingling of different corpuses , or finally to standing outside a corpus altogether and developing a critique of it , we can see that reason is exhibited within and given sense by a framework with its own tacit rules .
21 It is argued here that economic autonomy is still a long way off for most British women .
22 In the last 6 months , it 's suffered more than 500 job losses .
23 A general degree is rated lower than any specialist degree , however dismal .
24 Imagination is needed here and brainstorming sessions before each round of negotiation can be used to consider problems from new angles and to generate new ideas for introduction into a negotiation .
25 In a speech in Donegal before the by-election in November 1980 , Garrett FitzGerald of Fine Gael said , ‘ Until and unless it is shown conclusively that this danger can be effectively-controlled , which appears not to be the case , we oppose exploration ’ .
26 A beating system is employed so that some rabbits , especially those that escape behind the beaters , are shot while others are flushed forward to be killed by carefully-positioned waiting guns .
27 The game is played again until one team reaches twenty five points .
28 ‘ Thoo 's played fast and loose wiv 'im , ’ he stated .
29 The nucleotide sequence of AChRα is numbered forward and reverse starting with ATG ( 5 ) .
30 ‘ At the end of the session the whole class is debriefed so that important points can be clarified and re-emphasised . ’
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