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 only effective remedy is to install hardened valve seats or a replacement cylinder head , both expensive options . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Association is demanding written proof of Barnes ' status both in this country and New Zealand . |
| 5 | At their recent meeting the parish council asked me to find out whether the Ramblers ' Association is contemplating appealing against this decision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In New South Wales , for example , 1992 is Country Yarn and the Association is giving free workshops for members in areas which request this . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 12 | The intense threat of further isolation is given cultural formulation in the concept of sasoo possession , and individual expression in withdrawal and even suicide . |
| 13 | If it feels like the penis is getting soft during sex , try holding on to the base of the condom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Janet 's bedroom is painted pink , which she says is ‘ how it 's always been , I ca n't be bothered to repaint it ’ . |
| 17 | FOOTBALL is reaching dangerous levels of decline . |
| 18 | Exactly what this natural ligand is remains undiscovered , but inorganic chemists have made several ligands that can complex metals in this way . |
| 19 | The company says the strike 's unofficial although the union 's national president is lending personal support . |
| 20 | To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles . |
| 21 | Under strict liability , the defendant is held liable , even in the absence of negligence , because the enterprise is judged to involve unusual dangers which can not be eliminated even by the utmost care . |
| 22 | The children are in role as islanders who have decided to abandon their homes because a volcano is becoming active . |
| 23 | Dirty wind is disturbed turbulent air behind obstacles ( such as trees , buildings and other boards ' sails ) that greatly reduces a board 's speed . |
| 24 | These little leaves are like tongues or hands to sing or conduct the wind music , for of all trees , the beeches have the supreme choir and orchestra and to hear them in a high wind is to know divine music . |
| 25 | An animal shelter threatened with closure is to stay open . |
| 26 | The net result is to deter part-time employment among unemployed people and to increase women 's economic reliance on their partners . |
| 27 | That level is then divided by a ‘ safety factor ’ for humans , usually 1000 , and the result is considered safe . |
| 28 | The result is to reify popular music , treating songs solely as objects , neglecting their role in cultural practice or ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 29 | Reference resolution accepts these QLFs one at a time , inserts possible referents , and backtracks to another set of referents if the result is deemed implausible . |
| 30 | The Inland Revenue is seeking competitive tenders to assess whether a strategic contract with a major private sector computing supplier would be beneficial . |