Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Faerie Queene , though , ostensibly emphasises personal development : ‘ The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ’ . |
| 2 | Each borough is allowed a squad of 10 players , two of whom must be female , and these females must be involved in every game of the round robin competition sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok . |
| 3 | The remedy is to take a juicy example and pull it to bits yourself . |
| 4 | The first management remedy is to import a more docile labour force from another country or from a less developed part of the same country . |
| 5 | A quick remedy is to tie a light handkerchief to the end of the existing tail . |
| 6 | The remedy is to keep a clear head and remain in control . |
| 7 | In the case of the overhead power lines , unless we think in terms of screening power lines , which seem uneconomic , or using normal closely wound cable forms , as used underground , the most appropriate , but drastic , remedy is to adopt a new standard frequency for power generation and supply , such as 100Hz . |
| 8 | THE British Association is organising a great day in London for young scientists on Saturday , 5 March . |
| 9 | THE BioIndustry Association is holding a seminar in London on April 28 to highlight the opportunities in the Japanese market for British companies . |
| 10 | From 22 to 30 May , the Hellenic Art Galleries Association is holding a contemporary art fair entitled Art Athens 1 ‘ 93 in the Athens Exhibition Centre , a 3000 square-metre space . |
| 11 | Hurworth Community Association is holding a village gala day on Saturday June 20 . |
| 12 | Cockfield Community Association is holding a craft fair and table top sale twice a month starting on Sunday . |
| 13 | Cockfield Community Association is holding a craft fair and table top sale every second and fourth Sunday with the first one this week from 10am to 4pm in the community hall . |
| 14 | Cockfield Community Association is holding a craft fair and table top sale every second and fourth Sunday with the first one this week from 10am to 4pm in the community hall . |
| 15 | Durham County Carpet Bowls Association is holding a competition on March 1 . |
| 16 | Keep fit : Liverpool Keep Fit Association is to hold a sponsored keep fit for the Sunshine Bus Appeal at New Heys Comprehensive School , Heath Road , Allerton on November 14 . |
| 17 | The Peat Producers ' Association is discussing a peatlands strategy with English Nature , the government advisory body for England . |
| 18 | Now the Civil and Public Servants Association is to co-ordinate a campaign to protect Welsh jobs threatened by planned changes at DVLA drivers ' licence centre in Swansea . |
| 19 | The Hartlepool Youth Choir parents association is staging a spring fair in St George 's Hall , Park Road , today from 10am-noon . |
| 20 | The Walton Street Association is to throw a three-hour party , starting at 6pm , and Christmas shoppers should heed the early warning blizzard reports . |
| 21 | On October 26 the Historic Aircraft Association is convening a conference at Middle Wallop to discuss the operation of historic aircraft , particularly in the light of the losses during 1991 . |
| 22 | It tends to depreciate the role of purpose and to maintain , explicitly or implicitly , that the function of thinking is to study a sequence of events which it is powerless to influence or to alter . |
| 23 | Whenever a new entry is created a row is inserted in this table and whenever an entry is discarded the appropriate row is deleted and a new row inserted in the Redundant Lemma table . |
| 24 | Since the environmental rhythm is giving a time-cue to the organism it is called a zeitgeber ( from the German , Zeit — time ; geber — to give ) . |
| 25 | That of the contractor is to ensure a profit in doing so . |
| 26 | ‘ Underfunding is having a detrimental effect on the adequacy of policing services , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The focus-puller 's girlfriend is having a baby and he wanted to call headquarters in Caracas to see if there was any news but Vic said no . |
| 28 | To summarize : the purpose of the experiment is to create a standardized situation for the researcher to study , in which all variables are under the control of the experimenter , and in which the results of manipulating variables can be studied and measured . |
| 29 | But what I do suggest is , a useful experiment is to pick a subject , start a stopwatch , talk for what you think is thirty seconds , stop the stopwatch and then see . |
| 30 | Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant . |