Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the end of a glass rod is heated in a flame the glass softens and tends to round off into a blob because surface tension remains active long after permanent mechanical resistance to deformation has disappeared . |
| 2 | When a course is developed by a consortium the work is shared and each centre gets the benefit of its partners ' experience . |
| 3 | Brianchon 's Theorem ( circa 1820 ) states : If a hexagon is circumscribed about a circle the lines joining opposite vertices meet in one point . |
| 4 | If the applicant is added as a defendant the court sends the order to all parties , annexing to it a copy of the application ( Ord 15 , r 3 ) . |
| 5 | When a cubic curve is added to a parabola the resultant curve will depend upon which order is higher , odd or even . |
| 6 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 7 | If the building is turned into a pub the distinctive glass canopy , which dates back to the days when it was a garage , will be retained . |
| 8 | ‘ Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 9 | Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 10 | In recent years , it has become common for local political party caucuses to threaten to withdraw endorsement as candidates from Members who voice views unacceptable to them and there seems to be no reason in principle why this should not be treated by the House as a contempt the essence of which , in this respect , is to deny to a Member the freedom to exercise his power as a Member in the manner dictated by his own personal judgment . |
| 11 | It makes no difference whether the current is distributed within a radius a or concentrated at the axis ( only the enclosed current counts ) . |
| 12 | Where the applicant is represented by a non-lawyer , and the respondent is represented by a lawyer the probability of the applicant succeeding is 18% . |
| 13 | The first development as Ra is increased from a value a little above critical is a change in the geometry of steady convection . |
| 14 | When hydroxyapatite is sprayed onto a surface the coating is principally still hydroxyapatite , although a range of other phases are also usually present , including calcium phosphate glasses . |
| 15 | When a high head is followed by a rise the stressed syllables tend to move downwards , as one would expect , towards the beginning pitch of the tone : |
| 16 | We have seen how when the tonic syllable is followed by a tail the tone is carried by the tonic plus tail together in such a way that in some cases practically no pitch movement is detectable on the tonic syllable itself . |
| 17 | The best insurance is to have on a window a sticker of the Shahs great enemy , the turbulent , intransigent priest , Ayatollah Khomeini or , even better , to play one of the tapes on which , from his exile near paris , he exhorts the Shahs overthrow . |
| 18 | If the chair is taken by a woman the same phrase can be used or alternatively " Madam Chairman " . |
| 19 | Thus if an instance of a Part-number is pasted into a hyperdocument the hyperdocument 's context-table is automatically augmented by a specification of Part-number . |
| 20 | In reality , it is to introduce as a solution a concept which itself poses a theoretical problem , for as it is adopted and understood it is an uncriticized concept , a concept which , like all ‘ obvious ’ concepts , threatens to have for theoretical content no more than the function that the existing or dominant ideology defines for it . |
| 21 | The marketing campaign unveiled yesterday is aimed at a raising the profile of the event among the general public in the United States , where football lags far behind many other sports in popularity . |
| 22 | If the bulb is attached to a capillary the change in polymer volume can be traced by noting the overall change in volume registered by the movement of the mercury level in the capillary . |