Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unconditioned reflex is one which appears without previous experience ; for example , if food is placed in a dog 's mouth , it salivates . |
| 2 | The managing director of one of the biggest of such organisations attached to this place is registered as a Member 's secretary or research assistant . |
| 3 | ‘ The land is poisoned for a day 's march in every direction . ’ |
| 4 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
| 5 | If there is , the case goes to the Crown Court ( sitting with a jury and in many different places ) , where it is heard by a Queen 's Bench or Circuit judge or by a Recorder ( in certain circumstances joined by two to four Justices of the Peace ) . |
| 6 | She understands the world through trivial fictions , and is trapped within a child 's view of history and society . |
| 7 | If there is insufficient funds available to meet one instalment , the individual 's name is included on a violator 's blacklist at the Federation of Bankers ' Associations . |
| 8 | For instance , if an amount is included in a person 's income by virtue of TA 1988 , s421 ( assessment in respect of loan from close company ) in respect of any loan or advance , there is to be a corresponding reduction in the amount which can be included and taxable under TA 1988 , s677 ( TA 1988 , s677(3) ) . |
| 9 | It would ensure that correspondence is included in an individual 's electronic in-tray quickly and issues dealt with promptly . |
| 10 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 11 | Watch the Iraqi strongman slump to the ground as he is felled by a sniper 's bullet . |
| 12 | The south portal of the old Woodhead tunnel at Dunford Bridge is approached by a class B7 in about 1947 . |
| 13 | Coil L2 has an inductance of about 170µH and is wound on a Ferroxcube FX3720 bobbin which is supplied with two E-cores in grade 3C8 material . |
| 14 | Then it is time for Frank to give a sample of his act , which is built around a ventriloquist 's dummy called Marvin the Monkey . |
| 15 | Every decision is made of a person 's free will , and is voluntary , unless it is effected by compulsion . |
| 16 | They object to a little cotton apron on the mice which is made from a baby 's dress — it was suitable for a baby but not for a stuffed mouse to wear ! ’ |
| 17 | It is indeed very much akin to the famous Greek speciality , except that true taramasalata is made from a cod 's roe much more salty , more pungent , and less smoked than our own . |
| 18 | An example from the late-18th century is shaped like a fox 's head but with a swan 's or duck 's head as the handle . |
| 19 | The iron knocker is shaped like a lion 's head . |
| 20 | Such ‘ anti-social ’ behaviour is related to a horse 's great need for sensory and mental stimulation . |
| 21 | The second erm is is and perhaps is related in a way er in the air to air weapons where erm in older missiles have had what is known as sort of bore sight capability where they go in the direction of the aircraft . |
| 22 | ‘ Cobra ’ , as the £14000 system is known , is connected to a Ferranti CO2 laser . |
| 23 | There are also bound to be variations with age , which in terms of family relationships is reflected in a person 's position in the structure of generations ( for a discussion of age and generation , see Finch , 1986a ) . |
| 24 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 25 | On Saturdays , hungry customers queue along the pavement beneath Manze 's green awning that is sandwiched between a dry-cleaner 's and a men 's clothing store . |
| 26 | Agism , like other forms of discrimination at work , is rooted in a society 's culture . |
| 27 | The amount of information that is needed for a company 's marketing information system will depend on the extent of its current involvement or potential interest in an overseas market . |
| 28 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 29 | Gastric acid secretion is mediated by a H + , K + ATPase on the apical membrane of the partietal cell which extrudes H + in exchange for K + . |
| 30 | This is exemplified by a children 's toy called the tippe-top . |