Example sentences of "[verb] is a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society ; it serves basic social functions and it signals the ability to store information and to learn from it . |
| 2 | Drag and drop launching is a new feature , and part of the Windows 3.1 ethos . |
| 3 | The appointment of McDonald , who was still an interviewer with Trinidadian TV when News At Ten first went on the air , fits in with what sources suggest is a new reliance on star names . |
| 4 | Children are swept along by waves of enthusiasm and some teachers are so expert at whipping up energy and commitment that they can even persuade children that a tables test is a great reward for good behaviour . |
| 5 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |
| 6 | What she might need is a good fright . |
| 7 | What you do need is a basic ability in English and maths , a pride in your work , and most important of all an interest in cookery . |
| 8 | A better , put a fibrous pad over it , so a pad , pressure directly over the wound initially , that 's the first treatment done , see to casualty put pressure immediately over the wound and raise the limb higher than the heart , then the first aid equipment that you 'll need is a fibrous pad to bind over it , to keep the pressure on . |
| 9 | Using or taking as representing is a mental act , and it presupposes that the mind has the power of seeing generality in things , by seeing the class ( or form ) in the particular . |
| 10 | Smiling and laughing is a terrific tonic for everyone . |
| 11 | Also expected is a hand-held CD-Rom player developed by Apple and Toshiba . |
| 12 | Over-bleaching is a real hair-destroyer so do not embark on it lightly if you have dark hair . |
| 13 | Sulking is a common occurrence , but it may sometimes be carried to an anti-social extreme . |
| 14 | Something that a lot of other open systems vendors propose is a big bang approach to evolving to that type of architecture away from proprietary systems . |
| 15 | In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point . |
| 16 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |
| 17 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 18 | Not wishing to think about dying is a natural response for those who wish to direct their care and attention to the living . |
| 19 | Equally revealing is a rare autobiography by an impoverished Norfolk farm labourer 's son , who had turned professional poacher and been disowned by his harsh father . |
| 20 | Church ‘ D' is a black church , now seventeen years old . |
| 21 | you may even and this is a bit I mean Saturday lunchtime is a bit I 'm almost almost er oh the producer 's going , Careful careful , which he should know is a red flag to a bull and I might say no but I wo n't . |
| 22 | The group make use of Farnham 's musical facilities , including the Warehouse , which they say is a great place to rehearse in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Adjoining is a thrilling Go Kart circuit ( separate admission ) |
| 25 | Notching is a good way of checking that your stringer is doing a good job . |
| 26 | It is thought that the mechanism whereby all the genes in the chromosome are inactivated is a chemical modification of the DNA . |
| 27 | The least one expects to find is a well-appointed house with interesting decorative features . |
| 28 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 29 | But just a few miles away from where Jilly Cooper lives is a REAL hamlet called Paradise , and villagers there are worried that readers might think the book is based on them . |
| 30 | The dry anus suffers pain ; the penetrated is a humiliated man . |