Example sentences of "[noun] is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former belief that the Prime Minister was prim us inter pares ( first among equals ) has given way to the realisation that the office-holder is primum mobile ( the first mover ) . |
| 2 | A standard Land Rover wheel is 4.75 inches . |
| 3 | Another difference between Dr Tipler 's story and traditional religion is that man leads to God , not vice versa . |
| 4 | Religion is another variable of limited importance . |
| 5 | Involvement in the visual arts is one way in for many young people today . |
| 6 | Buxton is all lime — limestone , ground lime , hydrated lime and cement ; sales £45 million . |
| 7 | The coastal resort of Morecambe is twenty minutes away and has all the amenities of a seaside resort including an open-air leisure park and Oceanarium . |
| 8 | Airmen Anonymous ( Merlin Books , 45pp , sbk , £3.95 ) by Trevor Holman is one man 's story of life in the RAF as a member of the groundcrew . |
| 9 | Both the long and short meditations are presented as prayers in which Rolle counterpoints awareness of the suffering caused by sin in the events of the Passion with a growth in horrified consciousness of the death blows of sin in the self , for which the only remedy is that love manifested in the death of Christ working in man : what Julian will call " the werkyng of mercy " , which lasts as long as sin pursues man , and of grace which works our " dredful faylyng " into solace and our " shamefull " " falling " to resurrection . |
| 10 | With ball-valves the best remedy is complete replacement of the old valve with an equilibrium type ; this is designed so the valve can not be forced open by the incoming water pressure , only by movement of the float arm . |
| 11 | The remedy is adequate information feed-back and continuous checking but the need for this may not be obvious from the chart because the areas of overlap are difficult to illustrate . |
| 12 | Under the frontispiece is another note concerning a new wall built and a plantation of cedar of Lebanon and pines made along it in 1761 . |
| 13 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 14 | To illustrate this point let us postulate a hypothetical , though possibly unattainable , unemployment rate U F which is the true full-employment unemployment rate : U F is that unemployment rate where at w * ; . |
| 15 | The thinking is that Conner , or some of his key crew , could join one of Koch 's boats . |
| 16 | Positive thinking is another cause Pearce has always tried to promote . |
| 17 | If the average age at school entry is 4.5 years this gives an outward migration rate of 12.5% a year ( 95% confidence interval 10.8% to 14.4% ) . |
| 18 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 19 | During the session the demands that the child makes on the parents for help and how they respond to deal with the interruption is useful information . |
| 20 | Hot on Rigby 's heels is Little Budworth 's Mike Barber who in turn has to keep an eye on Dingle 's Tony Collins , just a few points behind . |
| 21 | ACT Group Plc 's London-based finance system division ACT Financial Systems Ltd is supplying its Quasar investment management system to two major Slovakian banks , the IRB — or Investment and Development Bank , and VUB Invest , the investment service division of the VUB Bank ; on both projects , the prime contractor is Digital Equipment Corp with ACT providing the software and support . |
| 22 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 23 | Grief is another emotion — or rather , set of emotions — which often creates problems . |
| 24 | Normally my stock is 3 in. wide but the maximum depends on the capacity of the saw and the angles . |
| 25 | lets hope old Syd is back bowling very soon … we 're off on the trail to South America now for one of the most demanding and torturous sporting trials of all … |
| 26 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 27 | ‘ People 's perception is that education is cheap if not free , ’ says David Gleave . |
| 28 | To date the author has collected over 250 photographs , mostly unpublished , and at present the script is 30000 words . |
| 29 | Isolation is basic cult tactics , especially isolation from any of your old friends . |
| 30 | Six legs is six legs . |