Example sentences of "[noun] is [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A standard Land Rover wheel is 4.75 inches . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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% ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To date the author has collected over 250 photographs , mostly unpublished , and at present the script is 30000 words . |
| 6 | Six legs is six legs . |
| 7 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 8 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 9 | Not least in the neighbouring metropolitan areas , where urban regeneration is thirteen years old . |
| 10 | Perk is eight and Scout is nine years old , but the main similarity is their innocence . |
| 11 | Mrs. S. is 30 years of age . |
| 12 | Everything in football is 100 miles an hour . |
| 13 | So we say its average speed is fifty miles per hour . |
| 14 | If your speed is 176 steps per minute then it will take 15 minutes to cover one mile : Distance = Speed x Time = 176 steps/min x 15 mins = 2,640 steps |
| 15 | Bruce Tigwell says … the skill of it he says is being able to read the ground and go over bumps as quickly as you can … there are more skills in this than any other form of motoring … he says it 's fun motor sport and very friendly but the competition is still high … you can not buy the vehicles off the shelf you have to make them … top speed is 115 miles an hour but they rarely get the chance to go that fast |
| 16 | In the case of glass this crack speed is 4,000 miles an hour or 1,700 m/s , a velocity which has been confirmed experimentally . |
| 17 | Erm liaising with the operations manager route speed potential , since we know the route speed is twenty miles an hour , er I felt that probably was n't really a vital item . |
| 18 | IBM Japan Ltd , which restructured in January by creating two subsidiaries , one aimed at small and medium-sized companies and the other offering overall services including consultation and facilities management , has a new president , Kakutaro Kitashiro , who replaces Takeo Shiina , who was also a member of the IBM Corp main board , and is now non-executive chairman of IBM Japan : the new president is 48 years old , a 26-year veteran of IBM Japan , and possesses little of the charisma of the outgoing Shiina ; he rose rapidly through the ranks to a position of potential candidate for president in 1984 . |
| 19 | The two are not associated , since Castor is 46 light-years away and Pollux only 36 . |
| 20 | I must not be shocked , she told herself , I must remember that Eleanor is eighty-nine years old and that they are most kind in mental hospitals , these enlightened days . |
| 21 | two four now , the wind is ten knots , one zero kilometers , three thousand , temperature eight . |
| 22 | Clearly , it is good that the Israelis and the Palestinians are sitting around a table in Washington , and that each side is advancing ideas for the future of the occupied territories . |
| 23 | The run section is faced with small-meshed wire netting or with Twillweld , and the facing side is 3 feet ( 1 metre ) tall to ensure that a big area of wire mesh is available . |
| 24 | The result is two cultures clashing/like cymbals and a gloriously confused echo-chamber of signals , sound and sense . |
| 25 | In this example the end result is five layers , two containing salt fingers and three with isothermal concentration-driven convection . |
| 26 | ( The correct result is 583.92 days , to the second place of decimals . ) |
| 27 | The result is poetic texts about poems ; ironic essays about ironic texts ; satirical texts about satire , etc . |
| 28 | Moreover , when Special Hospital patients stay too long , places do not become available for others who might benefit from a place and the result is large numbers of seriously mentally ill long-term prisoners held in maximum security jails . |
| 29 | The result is local services that ignore many of the needs of women ( Lansley et al . |
| 30 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |