Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steering wheel is made from a semi-circle of black or brown fondant . |
| 2 | When the banner of religion is raised as a banner of politics , blood will flow , just as it has done in Belfast , Beirut and Colombo . |
| 3 | Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility . |
| 4 | The way formal religion is incorporated into a way of life is not constant and must relate to the social experience particular to certain groups and even to individuals . |
| 5 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 6 | He was one of those blessed people who have an itch in their hands to make things which will not be denied and for whom a lack of formal training in the arts is compensated by a hyper-developed sense of ingenious invention . |
| 7 | The furnace is scheduled as an Ancient Monument in the care of the Department of the Environment , and can be seen at any time . |
| 8 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |
| 9 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 10 | To verify this the remedy is stopped for a week or two . |
| 11 | It has also been suggested that requiring recourse to an alternative remedy is used as a way of reducing the number of judicial review cases and the strain on the judicial resources available to hear such cases . |
| 12 | In this region the Kupferschiefer is underlain by a thick series ( several hundred to one thousand meters ) of Rotliegendes ( Lower Permian ) , often represented by volcanic rocks . |
| 13 | THE Road Haulage Association is warning about a team of bogus engineers who are contacting mobile phone users on the pretext of tracing and solving connection problems . |
| 14 | If this is the case , and long-term memory for the simple association is reflected in a widespread increase in numbers of synapses , it is difficult to argue that the memory is ‘ represented , by but a single set of synapses at a particular motor neuron ; thousands must be involved , distributed across many cells . |
| 15 | Colonic crypt cell proliferation is used as an indicator of risk of colorectal carcinoma . |
| 16 | ( ii ) If f ε Q[x] is neither the zero polynomial 0 nor a unit we say that f is irreducible iff , whenever f is expressed as a product , f = gh with g , h ε Q[x] , it follows that either g or h is a unit . |
| 17 | Critical thinking is replaced by a consensus that is illusory . |
| 18 | Certainly its thinking is complemented by a knowledge of the longer text which may be the reason for its appearing after both books of the Scale in the early printed editions . |
| 19 | It is only created if a QAO log entry is actioned by a process model for that module . |
| 20 | Give Way signs are not placed at all roundabouts , but the point of entry is marked by a single broken white line across the road to indicate the give way rule . |
| 21 | His uncle 's testy interruption is followed by a more dramatic one as Admiralty orders arrive for Septimus to join the frigate Althea as junior midshipman ; but , not to be diverted from his experiment , he uses a similar home-made bomb to good effect when the coach is held up by highwaymen on the Portsmouth road . |
| 22 | His mental rhythm is characterized by a demand for endless repetition of the same event or events , and change for him means essentially some abrupt transformation . |
| 23 | The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol . |
| 24 | In the former interpretation , the speaking persona is placed in an imagined situational context which is evoked by the text itself , so that the real and the fictional enunciations are once again rather neatly separated from each other . |
| 25 | The hardy perennial question of how an increase in the money stock is divided between a fall in velocity , an increase in output and an increase in prices gets short shrift in the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 26 | The card is shaped like a small pint of Guinness . |
| 27 | When a card is plugged into an expansion slot it accesses the main processor through a bus on the motherboard and external to the card . |
| 28 | Each card is used as an aid . |
| 29 | Circumstances may arise where a card is retained by an Abbeylink machine . |
| 30 | A Gold Highline Card is provided with a Gold Cheque Account only . |