Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst this is expecting a great deal for such groups , a measure of personal ministry to the individual plus group ministry to one another would seem to preserve the right balance . |
| 2 | What you do with this is take a big breath , |
| 3 | This is taking a long time . |
| 4 | This is taking a long time . |
| 5 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |
| 6 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 7 | In the absence of adequate police action , this is producing a growing number of self-defence and monitoring groups among black minorities ( Gordon , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | This is creating a vital staging post between expensive hotels and permanent rehousing for the homeless . |
| 9 | The only solution for this is to use a soldering iron to lengthen them ! |
| 10 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 11 | This is called a labelled graph . |
| 12 | This is called a cloud-point curve . |
| 13 | This is called a Preferred Point Geometry . |
| 14 | My worst dive was when on descending a sudden shock of cold water hit my tooth sending a shock wave up my nerve the nerve ran through a sinus causing extreme pain this is called a dental trauma I had to abandon the dive immediately . |
| 15 | This is called a lateral eruption . |
| 16 | This is called a coronary thrombosis or just ‘ a coronary ’ . |
| 17 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 18 | In some cases the effects of the blockage can be so severe that the heart stops beating altogether and this is called a cardiac arrest . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly this is called a low-angle thrust fault . |
| 20 | Gon na go on now to talk about a severe condition which may start out that with a minor skin rash like this , this is called a petechial skin rash they later progress to rather more generalised rash and in it 's most severe form it 's mucrotic |
| 21 | This is called a data-bank system and a good example is the pupil record system which is kept in a secretary 's office . |
| 22 | This is called a lunar month . |
| 23 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 24 | This is called a vertical micro-instruction format : some examples ( from the Burroughs B1700 computer , taken from Burroughs 1972 ) are given in Figure 3.22(b) . |
| 25 | This is called a scientific novelty . |
| 26 | When the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun it is seen from the Earth to move across the Sun , and this is called a solar eclipse . |
| 27 | In military parlance this is called a fast retreat . |
| 28 | Figure 5.17(b) was produced by replacing each pixel value in Figure 5.17(a) by the average of the pixel values in a 7 pixel by 5 line box centred on that pixel ; this is called a moving average filter . |
| 29 | This is proving a vintage year for Cumbrian trainer , Gordon Richards , whose Clever Folly was winning for the fourth time . |
| 30 | As we have seen , this optimism is already justified on the theoretical side , and this is providing a fruitful stimulus to the experimentalists . |