Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [is] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 UnivEd Technologies Limited is the one-stop entry to the University of Edinburgh 's core industrial liaison activities .
2 How word meanings combine is a key question when attempting to account for the way discourse is understood .
3 Of course walking is the chief activity .
4 The last thing your sister wants is an unwilling husband . ’
5 About 5,000 pink flamingos in western Kenya have died of a bacterial infection in recent weeks , which veterinarians say is a natural reaction to over-population .
6 What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report .
7 What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report .
8 Theorem proving is a special case of monotonic search .
9 The last thing either side wants is a public trial of strength which would probably succeed only in damaging the long-term interests of each .
10 ‘ This week 's Asturias Rally is a European round and therefore worth more points than , say , Valencia .
11 Data checking is a particular instance , e.g. in a study of obstetric history , the machine can be made to check that , for each woman ,
12 If you are in a dealing situation and each deal made is a sound one then momentum may be enough .
13 Validity refers to the problem of whether the data collected is a true picture of what is being studied .
14 The bronze medallion incorporated is the highest award of the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund on whose illuminated roll the Heroic act is recorded . ’
15 Comparing one- and two-phase-on excitation schemes it is perhaps surprising to and that the exact analysis shows that the torque produced is the same , whereas the approximate result indicates that the two-phases-on scheme should produce twice as much torque as one-phase-on excitation .
16 Two of the different angles of bend that are available : 90° and 135° shown is an offset elbow
17 The only kind of storage that can cope with the sheer volume of data involved is an optical disc and the only practical format that can be used is the compact disc ( CD ) .
18 Another excellent chapter deals with the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion , which Brennan admits is a personal hobbyhorse .
19 What Freud provides is a workable and , on the whole , convincing hypothesis or model that enables us at least to describe , if not to explain , the workings of the mind — that is , people 's behaviour and people 's creations , such as visual art and literature .
20 The only maintenance required is an occasional wipe over with a mild detergent .
21 The roast fillet of lamb with herb crust to follow is a classic dish , presented by Clayton with great finesse .
22 The size and volume of the contracts secured is the best safeguard for the future of the coal industry .
23 There we are , sir , that 's erm er er a very brief history erm of erm er of the new settlement strategy , erm it 's one clear that the County Council thinks is the appropriate way erm er for the Greater York area er to proceed .
24 The way the Sun looks is an integral part of its violent approach to almost everything : its anti-humanism .
25 Mike Teague says he was amazed at how many people turned out to watch … and it just goes to show how much Gloucester people enjoy their rugby … he says his comeback is going well but there 's a lot of pressure to keep winning and England want is a third grand slam …
26 What Mr Alexander establishes is the vital contrast between external sanctity and order and the lust , violence , madness and panic that fuel the characters ' actions .
27 In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) .
28 We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress .
29 The fragment used is a 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragment encoding deoP2 sequences from -118 to +16 .
30 Zuccarelli will not discuss what is inside his ‘ Ringo ’ recording head instead expounding a psycho-acoustic theory to disguise what engineers suspect is a simple advance in old-fashioned binaural recording .
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