Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
| 2 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 3 | Leaving out nuclear power and the renewables , the most favoured low carbon dioxide fuel is natural gas ( which is largely methane , another greenhouse gas ) . |
| 4 | We drive there on an empty street which is barely rubble , strewn with rusty cans that look like tankers , sweet wrappers , empty beer bottles and hordes of children shouting by the side of the road . |
| 5 | in Ludlow , we 've to the er , the Whitchurch initiative , there 's something going on in , in Lud in Ludlow at present which is particularly education , social service linked at , but at the end of the day that 's also about jobs , two jobs of training , and perhaps one of the ways in which we solve er , land issues erm , and , and of course Craven Arms is now , is now coming up in each profile as needing something done , and I 'm also being approached about the East Water Block Coking where there are particular problems in those areas . |
| 6 | It is perhaps fortunate that such events are in fact rare and it would clearly not be ethical to increase their frequency , instead , the ascending portion of the curve which is clearly present will be considered in more detail . |
| 7 | At the moment of consummation , Philip shouts aloud the word ‘ Joy ’ , which is both exclamation and apostrophe . |
| 8 | It tends to be a time-consuming transformation process which is both management and resource intensive , and is more expensive than invention . |
| 9 | One , the British gay director Richard Kwietniowski , has taken the simple reading a stage further by making the prize-winning short film , Flames of Passion ( 1990 ) , which is both pastiche of and homage to the Coward original , reworking its iconography into an updated story of gay romance that begins with hurried glances on a station platform and , times having changed , ends with intertwined consummation on the train . |
| 10 | The Council tax is a hybrid tax , which is both part property or household tax and part personal tax . |
| 11 | The problem for the teacher is to provide a source of language for their classes which is both language enhancing and has potential for communication . |
| 12 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 13 | If you 're buying a car stereo , try to get one which is either security coded or can be easily removed and taken with you when the car is parked . |
| 14 | er which is immediately west of Manor Court . |
| 15 | However , against this statutory backdrop , the professional bodies have developed a policy-making role and , following the example set in the USA , with the introduction of the Accounting Standards Board in 1990 we have seen the establishment of a standard-setting body which is neither government nor the accounting profession . |
| 16 | The atoms are all ‘ frozen ’ into the random positions they occupied in the liquid , producing a material which is neither crystal nor liquid : not crystal because it does n't have an ordered structure , not liquid because it does n't flow . |
| 17 | It comes as an extension to SCO 's Unix V ( which is also part of the Open Desktop suite ) for systems based on Intel 's 80386 and i486 processors . |
| 18 | This dual role , which is also part of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) 's work , contains glaring contradictions . |
| 19 | A common problem is a clash between two people modifying modules ; that is , one person is unable to activate a DC because it refers to a module which is also part of a DC activated by someone else on another package . |
| 20 | Where the defendant has no intention to commit any of these acts , the sexual assault falls into Category 4 which is also gender neutral . |
| 21 | the height of a letter excluding the ascenders and descenders ; eg ‘ x ’ , which is also height of the main body . |
| 22 | Either way , in this masculine imaginary the vagina signifies a most disturbing absence , a hole which is also privation , deficiency , lack , a negativity which engulfs and vitiates what is full . |
| 23 | so I 've decided I 'm going to do erm something called Sunshine Chicken , which is just chicken e , chicken casserole , a bit different , she does n't drink alcohol so I ca n't do anything in wine , erm so I 'm doing that , I 'm doing four portions of chicken of that cos the daughter eats chicken , erm |
| 24 | And there is the leg-bye law , which is utterly cuckoo . |
| 25 | These apatite crystals are embedded in an organic matrix which is mostly collagen . |
| 26 | There is some doubt about Droitwich , where recent excavations have uncovered buildings of a large establishment which is probably part of the salt-extraction industry . |
| 27 | The general point in this case is something like ‘ the effect of restoring old buildings ’ which is already part of the topic framework established by the preceding discourse . |
| 28 | Which is already flesh , fur and faeces , |
| 29 | In a tree which is already moribund the remaining healthy crown may be suppressed , but the loss of the individual tree is far outweighed by the conservation benefits . |
| 30 | The hard part of both enamel and dentine consists of elongated crystals of a substance which is nominally hydroxyapatite , , although the exact chemical composition varies widely , reflecting the environment in which it was formed , and carbonoapatite , fluorapatite , calcium fluoride , calcium carbonate and so on may be present . |