Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To insist that on the contrary it is a fact of nature is to fall straight into the classic folklinguistic trap . |
| 32 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |
| 33 | In each the primitive , sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated . |
| 34 | The mould is broken away from the hardened bronze , the ends of the tie-rods sawn off , faults patched and the surface cleaned ; and though much fine detail was completed in the model , more can be chiselled on the cold bronze . |
| 35 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 36 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 37 | Soon the great awards of knighthoods give way to the decorations reserved for the civil and military services , and the shuffle of office workers is broken only by the occasional clink of a cavalryman 's spur . |
| 38 | The ensuing silence is broken only by the quick rustle of Anya surrepitiously scratching her knee through a layer of denim . |
| 39 | Here is spring and summertime the quiet is broken only by the soothing sound of wood pigeons , which somehow creates an aura of timelessness . |
| 40 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 41 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 42 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 43 | That diary is filled in on every single day throughout that year — 1940 . |
| 44 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |
| 45 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 46 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 47 | This programme is taught jointly by the Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Department , with the Hebrew and Old Testament , and New Testament Departments , and comprises a study of Biblical and Theological Ethics . |
| 48 | As we have already explained , such a change in angle of attack is formed naturally by the conical sailform on a delta , but it needs to be held in place on sharply tapered types . |
| 49 | ‘ The old adage is to promote harder during the difficult times , ’ admits Mr Bacon . |
| 50 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 51 | Textured bob-length hair with full fringe is smoothed out into a chic wrap as an alternative . |
| 52 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 53 | Each activity is listed discretely in the National Certificate Catalogue for certification purposes . |
| 54 | The silence is punctuated only by the light banter among the four ops room members and radio babble with the captain on the bridge . |
| 55 | Hence , to the extent that consent is justified non-instrumentally as a constitutive element in a relationship between a citizen and his society , it is valid only if it exists between a citizen and a reasonably just society . |
| 56 | Given that these ‘ older ’ users are more likely to have worked and to inject heroin , rather than smoke it , the sample is skewed away from the archetypal ‘ young unemployed heroin chaser ’ profiled in our prevalence surveys . |
| 57 | So of course it is proving already with the National Curriculum . |
| 58 | A further debilitating gloss on section 58(1) is tucked away in the inner recesses of the police codes . |
| 59 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 60 | The Bible is treated primarily as a human product ; the world is explored by human investigation , and only what can be established rationally and scientifically is to be believed ; religion itself must be validated by reference to human experience , human values and human reason . |