Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle- or upper-class grief is hidden under controlled facial muscles or even under a black veil , as with members of the royal family . |
| 2 | Their weakness is explained by two major factors . |
| 3 | This difficulty is compounded by three further factors : the slightness of the symptoms in the majority of cases , the length of treatment , and the difficulty in assessing cure . |
| 4 | During her training , a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks . |
| 5 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 6 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 7 | It is intended for long-term unemployed adults ( and other adults with particular difficulties in finding work , such as disabilities ) and aims to help them acquire skills and return to employment . |
| 8 | The lightweight 155g Nike Duellist , for example , is designed for distances up to the half-marathon , whereas the 280g Brooks GFS105 is intended for those heavier runners . |
| 9 | If we are to establish how and to what extent routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's divisions , it would be useless to base our research where there is only militarized political policing ( even though there are at least formal attempts to try to normalize policing in areas of high tension ) , for it is necessary to explore the extent to which policing in so-called ‘ soft ’ areas is contaminated by wider societal conflicts . |
| 10 | However , if the shock is delayed until some ten minutes after training , memory is not disrupted , and the chicks will avoid the bead . |
| 11 | Next , we shall consider a more complicated problem where the space between the plates is filled by two different dielectrics , as shown in Fig. 2.17 . |
| 12 | Each book is prefaced with simple parental guidelines explaining the skills each exercise aims to develop . |
| 13 | An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate . |
| 14 | Much of the relevant theory is developed in these early chapters , but not with sufficient care . |
| 15 | The Finnish government is to appeal to other Western countries to give aid to East European countries in the form of technical , industrial and scientific expertise rather than direct financial help . |
| 16 | — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest . |
| 17 | It is distinguished from all other pigs in that , instead of building a nest of leaves and grass , it lives in holes originally dug by another animal , the aardvark . |
| 18 | An exchange 's rulebook , and the exchange 's function generally , is distinguished from most commercial contracts by its multilateral nature . |
| 19 | The Berlin period is distinguished by two major paintings of cabaret dancers ( 1911 and 1913 ) and his great pastel of ‘ Two streetwalkers ’ ( 1914 ) as well as a fine impression of the celebrated woodcut ‘ Five tarts ’ ( 1914 ) printed on a sheet of blotting paper . |
| 20 | The reasonable man is distinguished by three fundamental characteristics : he behaves in a reasonably prudent manner , he acts with fair regard to others , and conduct which does not match up to his behaviour is subnormal or deviant . |
| 21 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 22 | A pool of light is formed from several smaller pools of personal light , but the source of each single light must be acknowledged too . |
| 23 | This in itself is , of course , highly problematic since the concept of race is regarded by contemporary social scientists as , at best , misleading and , at worst , viciously destructive to understanding . |
| 24 | Juniper is regarded by many intuitive aromatherapists as having the power to cleanse on a psychic as well as a physical level . |
| 25 | The meditator is simply bidden to remember Peter although the identification with him is implicit in the way the incident is juxtaposed to the injunctions to pray : Although the formal prayer structure in the long version operates more rigidly and systematically , it is punctuated by lengthy emotive meditations . |
| 26 | Every room is painted in lovely pastel pinks and blues , and I do n't have any toilets , because going to the toilet is horrible and unromantic . |
| 27 | These founders also took their genes , virtually unchanged , on to South America , where their DNA is immortalised in 3000-year-old Chilean mummies . |
| 28 | The toddler is to remain with temporary foster parents in Wirral pending a court hearing next week . |
| 29 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 30 | In the meantime , Sunny is treated to regular weekly massages , hairdos and other beautician treatments . |