Example sentences of "is a [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lu-Fan is a completely hidden extraction system for toilet pans . |
| 2 | The frothy flower heads of Pyracantha coccinea are beautiful set against the cottage stone and the slightly stronger colour of Rosa ‘ Climbing Lady Hillingdon ’ is a well chosen companion plant . |
| 3 | Management by objectives is a well known management technique . |
| 4 | Groves , John & Westrup ( Underwriting ) Limited is a wholly owned specialist subsidiary of Sphere Drake Insurance Group plc , which has shareholders funds of just under £60 million . |
| 5 | There is a wonderfully positioned swimming pool with relaxing sunloungers , surrounded by well-kept gardens and a lovely loggia . |
| 6 | And to round off your top-to-toe beauty treatment , the Clairol Foot Spa , £39.95 , is a thermostatically controlled water massage treatment for tired and aching feet . |
| 7 | That is , where e t is a randomly distributed error term . |
| 8 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 9 | His first sale is a deliberately mixed bag affair of mainly Belgian provenance , including eighteenth-to nineteenth-century objets d'art , tapestries , tribal art and furniture with a number of Belgian items sent up from Paris and one hundred pieces of Far Eastern porcelain from a Belgian collection . |
| 10 | The highest estimate in this sale of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British drawings and watercolours is associated with a watercolour of Lake Albano in Italy by John Cozens , painted between late 1776 and early 1779 ( est. £30–40,000 ; $55–73,000 ) , but the greatest curiosity is a recently identified pencil sketch of Worcester Cathedral . |
| 11 | Each of these three places is a pleasantly sited holiday village , sharing between them nearly two hundred miles of sign-posted footpaths . |
| 12 | F117A is a fully featured flight simulator with excellent VGA graphics and joystick or keyboard control . |
| 13 | The final result is a permanently damaged knee joint . |
| 14 | Water vapour is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas but the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by human activities . |
| 15 | Start with Words and Pictures is a beautifully illustrated picture dictionary for young beginners which contains 470 headwords , arranged in alphabetical order and including important verbs and prepositions . |