Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [is] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drainage of peatbogs for forestry and agriculture is making a significant net contribution to greenhouse gas emissions , the report concludes . |
| 2 | One of the functions of the marketing expert in commerce and industry is to develop a clear idea of the target market and also to identify and axe both unprofitable product lines and unprofitable customers . |
| 3 | Re-usable trees with roots are growing in popularity and packaging is becoming a serious selling point . |
| 4 | Nowadays , in developed countries , we live in times of plenty , and every supermarket and greengrocer is offering an ever-increasing choice of food products . |
| 5 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 6 | However , the point of radical art and culture is to create a political poetic of the self and the group . |