Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former is the only feasible method where the farm stock is primarily sheep while the latter can be used where cattle and sheep are both present in reasonable proportions . |
| 2 | E-mail is automatically date stamped on receipt so the order of responses or interaction between accounts on the network is indisputable . |
| 3 | The most successful agent in Scottish football is undoubtedly Bill McMurdo , the man who rocked Scotland when he master-minded Mo Johnston 's transfer to Rangers . |
| 4 | Gary Speed is now top of the list for the number of letters sent in asking for signed photos since batty left , closely followed by Macca , Strach and Deane . |
| 5 | The head of state is the executive President , currently Didier Ratsiraka ; elected for seven years by universal adult suffrage , the President is also chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council , which is defined in the Constitution as " the guardian of the Malagasy Socialist Revolution " . |
| 6 | The President is also chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council , which is defined in the Constitution as " the guardian of the Malagasy Socialist Revolution " . |
| 7 | The President is both head of state and head of government and appoints a Cabinet . |
| 8 | The president is both head of state and head of government and in that capacity serves to some extent as a symbol of the nation , a focus for loyalty and Americans have a curious capacity for er im imputing to whoever wins the presidential election a set of er outstanding qualities . |
| 9 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 10 | For a widow or for a chronically sick parent with three children , the total loss is almost £20 or £1,030 per annum . |
| 11 | The building materials side is primarily issues held by the er , the private sector and issue of the waste by factories is something which is the subject of er new er regulations which are often advice which is expected shortly from the Department of Trade and Industry and and we are awaiting obviously for that to come out to see what should happen and therefore our advice to you is that we should contin continue to keep these issues under review through the waste er advisory matter the waste er Planning and Policy panel . |
| 12 | Those who , wittingly or not , use the concept of ‘ human rights ’ to attack societies from within or without find in the end that the result is neither health nor well-being . |
| 13 | The result is only representative on those variables selected for the quota , and may be quite unrepresentative on other factors . |
| 14 | The result is often cannibalism , especially in chickens and turkeys , which are debeaked and often have their toes cut by the same hot-knife machine as a preventative . |
| 15 | However , I did make a slip , which Mr Summers points out : total government revenue is about £40m , of which fisheries licence revenue is £25m . |
| 16 | Subsoil East and north-east of Sézanne the subsoil is substantially chalk , both Belemnite and Micraster . |
| 17 | Even in wartime , murder is still murder . ’ |
| 18 | To them murder is now part of their lives , a piece in the fabric of their souls . |
| 19 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 20 | In this expansion lies the freedom that comes with it ; for this journey and enlargement of the mind is also part of man 's endless quest for growth and self-fulfilment . |
| 21 | The water level in the additional pond is about 4″ below the capping stones and the water depth is 25″ which , for me , is ideal . |
| 22 | The neck is also mahogany , with a thickish rosewood fingerboard harbouring twenty frets . |
| 23 | A demonstration is only part of the teaching process ; the rest , such as the presentation and analysis of the theoretical knowledge on which the procedures are based , the teaching and practice of necessary skills , the evaluation of the procedures , and extension work such as the construction of contingency plans for related but different emergencies , must take place in follow-up sessions . |
| 24 | The progress department is sometimes part of the production department and sometimes a separate entity . |
| 25 | Total research income for the department is around £1.5m pa from a wide variety of sources . |
| 26 | The average weight is about 980kg/m 3 ( 61 lb/ft 3 ) seasoned . |
| 27 | Yeah but look at where the weight is though darling . |
| 28 | There are tiny algae within corals , for example ( see pp 56–57 ) ; yet life on the coral reef is predominantly animal . |
| 29 | This is important to those involved with it , for whom that engagement is only part of a continuing career pattern . |
| 30 | Warnie said that there was room only for a clear cut division of opinion — if one is a Catholic , the aumbry contains Our Lord and of course even prostration is hardly reverence enough : but if one is Church of England , it contains but a wafer and a little wine , and why in front of that should one show any greater reverence than in any other part of the church ? … |