Example sentences of "[verb] is a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society ; it serves basic social functions and it signals the ability to store information and to learn from it . |
| 2 | Drag and drop launching is a new feature , and part of the Windows 3.1 ethos . |
| 3 | The appointment of McDonald , who was still an interviewer with Trinidadian TV when News At Ten first went on the air , fits in with what sources suggest is a new reliance on star names . |
| 4 | Children are swept along by waves of enthusiasm and some teachers are so expert at whipping up energy and commitment that they can even persuade children that a tables test is a great reward for good behaviour . |
| 5 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |
| 6 | What she might need is a good fright . |
| 7 | What you do need is a basic ability in English and maths , a pride in your work , and most important of all an interest in cookery . |
| 8 | All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way . |
| 9 | A better , put a fibrous pad over it , so a pad , pressure directly over the wound initially , that 's the first treatment done , see to casualty put pressure immediately over the wound and raise the limb higher than the heart , then the first aid equipment that you 'll need is a fibrous pad to bind over it , to keep the pressure on . |
| 10 | All I recollect is a grey , sombre sky and the dark Seine rushing under the bridges ; tall , sharp-gabled houses which sprang up from the cobbles and leaned crazily together , storey thrust out above storey ; the narrow , winding streets of the Latin Quarter ; the pell-mell of ascending gables and tinted roof tiles , the gables of their lower storeys sculpted into fantastic shapes of warriors or exotic animals . |
| 11 | Using or taking as representing is a mental act , and it presupposes that the mind has the power of seeing generality in things , by seeing the class ( or form ) in the particular . |
| 12 | Smiling and laughing is a terrific tonic for everyone . |
| 13 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 14 | Also expected is a hand-held CD-Rom player developed by Apple and Toshiba . |
| 15 | Over-bleaching is a real hair-destroyer so do not embark on it lightly if you have dark hair . |
| 16 | Sulking is a common occurrence , but it may sometimes be carried to an anti-social extreme . |
| 17 | Something that a lot of other open systems vendors propose is a big bang approach to evolving to that type of architecture away from proprietary systems . |
| 18 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |
| 19 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |
| 20 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 21 | Not wishing to think about dying is a natural response for those who wish to direct their care and attention to the living . |
| 22 | Equally revealing is a rare autobiography by an impoverished Norfolk farm labourer 's son , who had turned professional poacher and been disowned by his harsh father . |
| 23 | Church ‘ D' is a black church , now seventeen years old . |
| 24 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 25 | you may even and this is a bit I mean Saturday lunchtime is a bit I 'm almost almost er oh the producer 's going , Careful careful , which he should know is a red flag to a bull and I might say no but I wo n't . |
| 26 | If you are working on an angled drawing board , the best kit we supply is a 150-4-PK dual action airbrush , which comes in a wooden box and has all three head and needle assemblies : fine , medium , and heavy-duty , to suit all the media you are likely to use . |
| 27 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 28 | Fans of the great British sausage have formed an appreciation society to protect what they say is a healthy and nutritious food . |
| 29 | The group make use of Farnham 's musical facilities , including the Warehouse , which they say is a great place to rehearse in . |
| 30 | About 5,000 pink flamingos in western Kenya have died of a bacterial infection in recent weeks , which veterinarians say is a natural reaction to over-population . |