Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
2 | HE 'S DOING a few things differently this time ; he says the album was recorded in a shed and he 's used waste metal for percussion , but elsewhere he 's shuffled further down memory lane . |
3 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
4 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
5 | This is oral history project tape number two of Mr Jack of . |
6 | This is oral history project tape number two of Mr Melville , of eleven , Close , Ipswich in Suffolk . |
7 | Put it in the microwave for two minutes , and it 's liquid chocolate sauce . . |
8 | There is extensive charity legislation , the Charities Act 1960 and other scattered statutes and the Charities Act 1992 ( hopefully soon to be consolidated ) . |
9 | McGregor ( 1986 ) , for example , reports that in the upper Yallahs basin there is extensive sheetwash erosion , slope failures and extensive gullying . |
10 | There is extensive research evidence that disabled and elderly people who are living with someone else , particularly when this includes a non-elderly married female relative , are less likely to receive statutory services than are those living alone ( Qureshi and Walker , 1986 , 1989 ; Arber et al . , |
11 | If the hon. Gentleman believes otherwise , he is inviting electricity consumers to pay over the odds for their electricity . |
12 | There is little surface evidence of limestone in Barbondale . |
13 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
14 | Sadly there is little documentary evidence relating to early introductions to Britain , although it is claimed that the Romans brought the walnut and sweet chestnut while remains or myrtle , bay and rosemary have been found on the sites of Roman villas , suggesting that these Mediterranean shrubs were cultivated in their gardens . |
15 | The Wage Council provided a useful basis for pay determination , especially in industries where there is little collective bargaining . |
16 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
17 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
18 | There is little nutrient present naturally , because chemically the sand is unable to retain it , and there are no soil microorganisms or fauna . |
19 | There is little sequence homology between PLC- β , PLC- γ and PLC- , except for domains X ( 170 amino acids ) and Y ( 260 amino acids ) . |
20 | Here there is little site competition , little aggression , and a development of displays based on locomotion . |
21 | ‘ She has minimal response to pain and noise , there is little eye movement , she is unable to communicate , she ca n't move her limbs or eat on her own . ’ |
22 | In THE CITY THAT TIME FORGOT there is little hip hop , house or club culture . |
23 | There is little leaf litter , so when the trees are removed , the organic content of the remaining soil is low . |
24 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
25 | Very close to the wall is small and so there is little energy production ; far from it , is small with the same consequence . |
26 | Beyond such verbal subversion there is little Mr Gorbachev can do . |
27 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
28 | However , there is little time advantage to be gained from doing this . |
29 | If they omit the incomplete Sonata in G major , K357 , and the two fugues , that is not great loss ; and while they do not enjoy the fine modern recording accorded to the Teldec artists , the DG sound remains respectable , although sometimes dryish and slightly clattery in forte , and there is little tape hiss . |
30 | However , if there is little labour mobility , the result in Section 5.2 will hold : employment will move procyclically while wages and membership will be sticky . |