Example sentences of "is [adj] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important class of surnames is that based on the pursuit of occupations or the holding of various civil or ecclesiastical offices . |
| 2 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 3 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 4 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 5 | A useful minimal definition is that given by the World Health Organization that ‘ Health is a state of complete mental , physical and social well-being , and not merely the absence of disease . ’ |
| 6 | And is that done in the work ? |
| 7 | The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 8 | A typical legend is that attached to the Hole of Horcum , a great natural hollow , and Blakey Topping , a prominent cone-shaped hill , both in the Yorkshire Moors . |
| 9 | Is that approved by the assembly that that is then given to the panel as a new responsibility ? |
| 10 | If the green is weak compared with the red , trouble is afoot . |
| 11 | The location of the environment is immaterial compared with the language environment , the breadth of knowledge of teaching staff and the peer group , and the fluency of communication . |
| 12 | How is this affected by the ratio of key range to address range ? |
| 13 | Rarely is this expressed in the statute . |
| 14 | However , the cost of these trips is minimal compared with the cost of an executive 's failure in an overseas assignment . |
| 15 | The demand to paint rolling hills is vast compared to the wish to paint flowing curves . |
| 16 | Much of the information can be derived from studies of dilute solutions ; an absolute measurement of polymer chain size can be obtained from light scattering , when the polymer is large compared with the wavelength of the incident light . |
| 17 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |
| 18 | Oh you 're daddy 's is all stained at the back and at the arm . |
| 19 | What the utterer commits himself to is all encoded in the language-system . |
| 20 | Forward and down to either side , the maximum clear viewing area is available outlined with the cream of the 207 's primary colour . |
| 21 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 22 | Since Charles figured in later medieval tales as the killer of Bernard to avenge his mother 's honour , or , alternatively , as Bernard 's bastard son , it is worth stressing that the charge of adultery against Judith is mentioned only in 830 ( Bernard is first documented at the palace in 824 ) and that no contemporary source ever cast doubt on Charles 's paternity . |
| 23 | The claim is biologically nonsensical , but it seems to have had political significance since it is first recorded in the context of a diplomatic initiative of the emperor Valentinian I , intended to secure Burgundian support against Macrianus , king of the Alamans . |
| 24 | Freames Mill is first recorded around the middle of the 17th century , when it consisted of a fulling mill and possibly a corn mill . |
| 25 | The frequency with which such copies are taken will be determined by each individual lexicographer , but in any event the system will copy the entry when it is first called from the Working-Set . |
| 26 | ( ii ) Expose the body wall by grasping the skin of the abdomen immediately above and below the midline with fingers and thumb and pulling simultaneously towards the head and feet ( this procedure can be made easier if a small midline knick is first made in the skin with a pair of scissors ) . |
| 27 | The energy that is lost during an exothermic reaction is first transferred to the reaction mixture . |
| 28 | Note that when power is first applied to the circuit , there will be a slight delay before the amplifier begins to work . |
| 29 | The household linen hang-ing on the clothes-line stretched across the backyard is certainly clean and white when it is first put on the line to dry . |
| 30 | His name is first found in the watermark of a postage stamp for Barbados as early as 1840 . |