Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet all this time the front wheel is pointing dead ahead and the bike is driving hard towards the next , faster left .
2 This curse will reverberate through the whole play and will not cease in wreaking havoc on the whole of Lear 's family until , with death as a result , ‘ The wheel is come full circle ’ .
3 The residents of these four townships constitute 12 per cent of Wirral 's total population , yet between them they contain 38 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users .
4 Although the unemployment rate in Wirral in 1985 stood at 20 per cent , 87 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users were unemployed , and strong correlations were found throughout the borough between level of opioid use , unemployment and social deprivation .
5 The only effective remedy is to install hardened valve seats or a replacement cylinder head , both expensive options .
6 Messerschmitt is developing another bogie , with controlled slip and with wheel profiles designed for high speeds , which it hopes to test on a new inter-city experimental train at 350 km/h .
7 North Housing Association is building 24 flats on a former play area in Miers Avenue .
8 The Family Heart Association is urging more people to have their cholesterol level checked and act on doctors ' advice .
9 Meanwhile , the Association is demanding written proof of Barnes ' status both in this country and New Zealand .
10 The aim of the association is to acquire greater access to the countryside in areas where it feels the public is unreasonably excluded .
11 At their recent meeting the parish council asked me to find out whether the Ramblers ' Association is contemplating appealing against this decision .
12 While the Semiconductor Industry Association is making mollifying noises on the issue of penetration of the Japanese chip market , but the new US administration is showing no such reticence , and US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor says he is ‘ resolute and determined ’ to pry open Japan 's semiconductor market to more US chips — ‘ We have every intention of creating a new framework of shared responsibility with our trading partners , ’ Kantor said in remarks prepared for the Semiconductor Industry Association .
13 THE World 's Poultry Science Association is offering 10 free places ( accommodation and registration ) at the 9th European Poultry Conference in Glasgow later this year .
14 In New South Wales , for example , 1992 is Country Yarn and the Association is giving free workshops for members in areas which request this .
15 Any mental picture will require interpretation , and this interpretation will be another mental operation , which , on the view that thinking is having mental pictures , will be another picture , which itself will require interpretation , and so on and so on .
16 But her silky skirt 's climbing high , and so 's his respiration .
17 In this situation the next-of-kin really is in a state of total shock and incapable of cogent thought and should therefore be given every opportunity to express whatever grief is felt that will help to assuage their loss .
18 The aim of Fast Forward is to provide mature students with an approach and a range of subjects which they can respond to as adults .
19 While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more .
20 Ahead of the desert water bag slung on the turret side the brigade 's painted red jerboa sign can be made out .
21 You 're outrageous you are , you 've got to have the gift of the gab in the first place , that 's just to walk into a shop or office and , my girlfriend 's think that 's what chain
22 TORY Euro-rebel Teresa Gorman has warned that the EC budget deal is funding poorer countries at the expense of the rich .
23 The key experiment is to take early limb buds , remove the covering jacket , separate the cells , mix them up , and then pack them back into the jacket which is then grafted to the flank of an embryo .
24 The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets .
25 The children probably appear as a source from which to develop new relationships and the immediate perception is to translate this experience into scholastic terms .
26 The intense threat of further isolation is given cultural formulation in the concept of sasoo possession , and individual expression in withdrawal and even suicide .
27 For example , suppose that a partnership is holding three low cards in the same suit .
28 If it feels like the penis is getting soft during sex , try holding on to the base of the condom .
29 To print a penis is one thing ; to print an erect penis is to invite legal action , and For Women certainly wo n't be doing it .
30 This admittedly circuitous line of reasoning is made necessary first by the undoubted presence of anachronisms in the Kanunname , as demonstrated by Dilger , and second by the fact that one does not meet the terms and in Taskopruzade , who is , of course , the principal , and indeed almost the only , source of information about the learned hierarchy before roughly 1550 .
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