Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 4 | It is important both in long term or " corporate " ( company wide ) planning , and in the budgetary planning and control process which is carried out on an annual basis . |
| 5 | While the police are clearly involved with formal social control , it is apparent that much of their work is carried out in an informal manner . |
| 6 | The aim is to leap around in an inflated suit and push your opponent off the mat . |
| 7 | She is admired by business , which is looking forward to an industrial policy for France : something it has lacked for years . |
| 8 | He is looking forward to an active retirement thanks to his association with the boy scout movement . |
| 9 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 10 | It is made up of an outer sheet of cells which forms a particularly thick structure — the apical ridge — at the tip , with an inner mass of loosely packed and rather dull looking cells . |
| 11 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 12 | Darwinian evolutionary thinking influenced him too , and his work on society is shot through with an evolutionary perspective , from the primal horde , a notion he derived from Darwin , to complex technological societies . |
| 13 | Cole continues : Socialism is seen here as an alternative and exclusive economic system , among the identifying characteristics of which two must be present : consumers ' control and the elimination of private profit . |
| 14 | the reproduction now functions as the original , the live performance is measured against the recording , and technical equipment is seen not as an external aid to reproduction but as a characteristic of the musical original , employed as part of the artistic conception ( ibid : 236 ) . |
| 15 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 16 | The second is where the pipe is fitted to a back inlet gully ; and the third is where the pipe is connected directly to an untrapped bend . |
| 17 | In fact it is practically illegal to be an authentic Christian , because the world which surrounds us is founded radically on an established disorder before which the mere proclamation of the gospel is subversive . ’ |
| 18 | Manchester at first lost out very badly on rail investment , but now it has some compensation in the Windsor Link and is going ahead with an advanced tram system that will take over a number of heavy rail routes . |
| 19 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 20 | ‘ Tennis came back to the Olympics for the first time in Seoul , and maybe now that it is recognised again as an Olympic sport , it will become more important in East Germany . |
| 21 | In Braque 's Still Life with Musical Instruments , painted in the autumn of 1908 , the neck of the mandolin is bent round to an exaggerated degree , so that the top and underneath of it are visible simultaneously . |
| 22 | Classical physics is played out before an all-seeing eye . |
| 23 | Before proceeding with an elaboration of the two strategies invoked by company law to legitimate the power of corporate managers , I will give an overview of the traditional model of the company with the object of showing how its development is characterized both by an increasing centralization of the authority to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company and by a concern to justify this vesting of broad discretionary power in corporate management . |
| 24 | The generally utilitarian function , if not rationale of medieval universities ( Cobban 1975 ) , is acknowledged even by those such as Veblen ( 1957 , p. 3 ) , who argued that the best principles for academic endeavour are ‘ an Idle curiosity , and the Instinct of Workmanship ’ , and provides ammunition for Bell ( 1971 ) and others who contend that the liberal tradition is based largely on an historical myth . |
| 25 | The Bill is based partly on an internal review of Her Majesty 's inspectorate which the Secretary of State has refused to publish . |
| 26 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 27 | One track in each cylinder is set aside as an embedded overflow area . |
| 28 | Make sure the food is set out in an attractive way so that its appearance makes the children excited . |
| 29 | Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles . |
| 30 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |