Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lease contained the normal covenants for the payment of rent , full repairing covenants , a user covenant confined to the business of ‘ home improvement contractors , ’ and the usual qualified covenant against assignment , to which is appended the following proviso : |
| 2 | Something which is called the best of and at the same time this barrier , so again be aware . |
| 3 | A second-rank tensor can easily be constructed by contraction : which is called the Ricci tensor . |
| 4 | Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ? |
| 5 | It passes under a bridge , on the reverse of which is written the ominous words ‘ YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR ’ . |
| 6 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 7 | 9 There hovers in Working Class Childhood the ghostly presence of more decent and upright children , serving their time in the restriction of poverty and family solidarity : " the old defensive culture of poverty gave working class children … a sense of security which is denied the present generation … " |
| 8 | The divergence of tissue lineages preceding implantation segregates three precursor populations : one that will give rise to the trophoblast , another that generates extra-embryonic endoderm and a third , the epiblast ( embryonic ectoderm ) , from which is derived the entire fetus and the extra-embryonic mesoderm ( 1 ) . |
| 9 | The latter could be related to the impairment , by NSAID , of the gastric nucus layer , which is considered the natural habitat of H pylori organisms . |
| 10 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |
| 11 | The Society produces a Journal " Conquest " , in which is published the annual Paget Lecture sponsored by the Society , and regular Newsletters which are sent to all members free of charge . |
| 12 | In the detailed examination of the spatial organization of Tyneside , use will be made of the idea of ‘ Northern Tyneside ’ , by which is meant the metropolitan districts of Newcastle and North Tyneside together with the adjacent county districts of Blyth Valley and Castle Morpeth . |
| 13 | They argued that the basis of the national assessment system should be essentially formative , that is designed to contribute to learning and not simply summative , by which is meant the simple recording of acquired knowledge or skill . |
| 14 | However , some authors suggest that governmental elites , by which is meant the permanent officials within a government bureaucracy . |
| 15 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 16 | The fact that the other child cries and you shout at her lets her know that it was naughty — and may stop her doing it again if you 're lucky — but it does n't mean she understands the pain she 's caused the other child . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't care if she 's called the Quacking Duck just as long as she 's steady , ’ Charlotte replied . |
| 18 | She 's kept the upper floor , turned it into a very nice flat for herself , and I — you also if you agree — could live downstairs . |
| 19 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 20 | So I suppose it 's what she wanted and she 's done the right thing . |
| 21 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's contaminated the whole house ! |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 24 | Sara paused a moment and then said , " She 's left the other half to Matthew Preston . " |
| 25 | She 's taken the old disc ? |
| 26 | But Cranog Jones says she 's invented the whole story to set him up . |
| 27 | A former SAS soldier who 's climbed the highest mountain in the world without oxygen has been describing how he struggled to breathe . |
| 28 | NICK HASTED meets the man who 's put the original western hero — in the shape of Daniel Day-Lewis — back on the big screen |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 30 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |