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

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1 A turn-round time of 24 hours for 90 per cent of prescriptions is guaranteed and an extended range of frames offers a greater choice of fashionable designs and colours .
2 Experimentally , a series of concentrations is studied and the results treated according to one or other of the following virial expansions .
3 In phonological dysgraphia , the spelling of real words is preserved whilst the spelling of non-words is impaired .
4 I hope that the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh , and other hon. Members who represent Northern Ireland , will agree that one of the absolute keys is to ensure that the money we spend gets to the people who most deserve and need it as quickly as possible .
5 One area of normal animation that can cause some heartaches is backgrounding and the scrolling of scenery as action moves from one place to another .
6 If , following the issue of the reminder , the charging authority still does not receive payment , the right to pay by instalments is lost and the charge payer becomes liable to pay the authority the full amount of community charge outstanding for the remainder of the year .
7 For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage .
8 The set of three translational degrees of freedom for each of a set of N atoms is modified when the atoms make up a molecule .
9 A massive increase in the contribution currently made by renewable sources to Europe 's overall energy needs is required if the Community is to meet its goal of stabilising carbon dioxide output by the year 2000 , according to the European Commission .
10 To invoke the idea of an interest , as I have done , to resolve the dispute between holists and individualists is to allow that the canons of explanation in the social sciences are both pragmatic and normative .
11 If winter sports is involved that the appropriate premium has been paid .
12 In this way the conflict of interest between the classes is disguised and a degree of social stability produced , but the basic contradictions and conflicts of class societies remain unresolved .
13 The discourse of authority represented by customs is outwitted when the text escapes into the domain of personal relations through a semantic back-door in the word ‘ declaration ’ .
14 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ?
15 As can be seen from the table a significant reduction in the number of parses is achieved when the flag is ON .
16 If an order requiring taxation of costs is made and a bill is not lodged for taxation within three months or such further time as the court may allow , the right to costs is forfeited ( r 7.35 ) .
17 As a result one set of feelings is expressed while the other is repressed .
18 The chief executive of the health service in Scotland , Don Cruickshank , said yesterday that one of the unit 's aims is to ensure that the NHS attracts the best staff .
19 Then a list of possible new schemes dear to committee members ' hearts is added and a list of possible economies and cuts , 1 per cent , 5 per cent or 10 per cent in total .
20 The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language .
21 In such situations the ability to defend nature conservation resources is strengthened where the resource can earn at least a partial return from the market .
22 The lean period at the beginning of the dry season with few available fruit resources is tolerated as the marsupials store fat .
23 For this simplistic example , it can be assumed that these are readily available , and no adjustment of the resources is needed before the audit process can start .
24 Representation on special needs was also made to the Select Committee , by teachers ' associations and others , making the point that early identification of delay difficulties is facilitated when the provisions and structures are in place .
25 With this in mind the Ulster Unionist perception of British values and traditions , the empire , Ulster and southern Irish nationalists is examined and an assessment made of the compatibility of these views with British thinking on these issues .
26 What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained .
27 The theory is that the range of decisions open to managers and administrative agencies is limited because a set of criteria derived from their expert background and training governs their decisions .
28 The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’
29 Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long .
30 Adequate security for loans is required since the EIB itself borrows at commercial rates .
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