Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ozberk has now been moved to Pentonville Prison which is nearer the airport . |
| 2 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 3 | Before the op I was on 1,000 milligrams of the Dopramine drug a day , which is what the brain is lacking , which is substitute the drug for , which is . |
| 4 | This cyclical fluctuation in volume is due to-the operation of the camcorder 's automatic gain control which is all the time trying to maintain a constant sound level irrespective of the natural level of the incoming signal , an effect which makes it impossible to reproduce true audio perspectives . |
| 5 | Which is unfortunate the way we 've got it numbered but that 'll do . |
| 6 | erm , so if I move on then , now to eight D which is forty the fund , we have written into the resolution , huh , let's be clear about that . |
| 7 | I do n't think he 's a very good people manager , but he admits to that , which is half the battle . ’ |
| 8 | Although dealing with a much smaller area confined to Insula XIV , an Insula which is half the size of most of the others , nevertheless , as many as 1293 well stratified vessels of coarse ware are published . |
| 9 | The geometric no-arbitrage condition contains an extra term ( y ) which is half the difference between the average of the variances of the instantaneous returns on the shares in the index ( ) and the variance of the instantaneous return on the index ( ) , that is , y = ( ) /2 . |
| 10 | Mike Barr , from the Borrowby Group , said the figure which is half the height of the proposed pylons would be visible miles away . |
| 11 | One further variation is to operate the motor with alternate one and two-phase-on excitation , i.e. A , AB , B BC , C , CA , A , --- Each excitation change produces an incremental movement which is half the length of a normal step and therefore this excitation is known as the " half-stepping " mode of operation . |
| 12 | Then if there is a half-page or table , we have to pay a whole page for it , which is double the price of a half-page of ordinary type . |
| 13 | The corresponding rate of fall of the output signal power is 20 dB per decade or very close to 6 dB per octave ( an octave is the musical term for two notes , one of which is double the frequency of the other ) . |
| 14 | Is the Minister aware that one third of the country 's bus fleet is now more than 12 years old , which is double the proportion before deregulation ? |
| 15 | If he or she is married the sentence is death by stoning , beheading or shooting . |
| 16 | If she is wrong the person who has the ball becomes queenie , and so on . |
| 17 | Frequently that person says he/she knows who is suitable the moment that person walks through the door . |
| 18 | I have elsewhere tried to show ( Dignan , 1983 ) that as far as the peace-tax issue itself is concerned the principle of equal concern and respect does generate a right to divert an appropriate amount of income tax from military to peaceful expenditure . |
| 19 | 1956 : after years of writing about nothing much happening 'cos everything is crap THE BEAST IS BORN … |
| 20 | Quote with mild disapproval his gallant remark to a self-conscious girl : ‘ When the chest is flat , one is nearer the heart . ’ |
| 21 | Sun 's director of advanced development , Dave Ditzel , says he for one is glad the specification was n't disclosed before DEC/Alpha and MIPS wheeled out their 64-bit architectures , which he dismisses as pretty traditional technology . |
| 22 | If only one is positive the chemical is tested on the sex chromosomes of fruit flies . |
| 23 | There is first the problem of plea-bargaining . |
| 24 | There is first the admission of cravings , sexual and other , felt as unspeakably ignoble , and there is the unappeased fear that the very gifts on whose existence all rescue depends might be mere fantasy , delusion . |
| 25 | There is first the idea that parliamentary regimes strengthen the resources of governmental power . |
| 26 | There is first the point that it is the earliest source . |
| 27 | And there is all the critique we need of the notion of empire . |
| 28 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 29 | But there is all the difference in the world between people created as equal before God , having equal access to the law , and the way in which equality is used so frequently today : not as equality of opportunity but as equality of outcome . |
| 30 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |