Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , although we generally refer to ‘ Orcs and Goblins ’ you can perfectly well field a force that is all Orcs or all Goblins . |
| 2 | But there is an additional tax burden or deadweight loss that is pure waste . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for his thesis , women , who are normally thought to be more intuitive than men , have on average less spatial ability , while spatial ability is more important for scientific thinking than is verbal ability . |
| 4 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 5 | If your microhabitat is on a window-sill that is twenty floors up a high-rise block , the animals will need to fly to reach it . |
| 6 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 7 | In Northern Ireland , such spending is estimated to be in the region of £3m and it is this figure that is three times the Agency 's £1m a year budget . |
| 8 | It is not just the sense that this is a partisan administration that is worrying Washington . |
| 9 | He vets every script and is checking-out scripts for the new series at the moment . |
| 10 | We have been warning ever since the company was formed of the accident at the heart of the company waiting to happen : now IBM 's signalling of the death of the mainframe coincides with the German economy heading into the same kind of structural — rather than cyclical — recession that is busy laying waste to IBM itself . |
| 11 | Disqualified from normal employment due to maverick intellect and sartorial eccentricity , I stepped off the dole into the Bacchanalian orgy of unbridled depravity that is contemporary rock'n'roll in late 1988 . |
| 12 | By zig-zagging up the slope the strain can be lessened , but the foot that is front pointing must still be placed at right angles to the slope ( Fig 7 ) . |
| 13 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 14 | They may be former bankers or miners , students , nurses or printers but there is nothing in their previous experience that is much help in running your own show . |
| 15 | But one speaker 's attempt at the patois may be closer to the standard end of the spectrum than is another speaker 's attempt at the standard . |
| 16 | It does not require much imagination on the part of a person contemplating , on the one hand the evolutionary product that is the marvellous human body , and on the other hand the mess that is religious history , to bring his agreement with this . |
| 17 | Given that series of gaffes , will he now compound his confusion and tell us that he bears no personal responsibility for the appalling slump that is devastating Britain today ? |
| 18 | All the information in my book is approved by the Princess and is common knowledge anyway . |
| 19 | The top one is Celtic in origin and is solid bronze . |
| 20 | Our house is made of wood and is dark green . |
| 21 | Our house is made of wood and is dark green , we have a four windows and four doors . |
| 22 | The alternative Falconet launch method , from a fixed stand using rocket motors ( Zero-Length Launch ) has the advantage of mobility but is many times more expensive per launch . |
| 23 | The pulpit was marvellously restored restored to its former glory and is further evidence that the powers of creation can surmount even the most destructive forces of mankind . |
| 24 | Built on a scale of 1 to 12 , the house is 102 inches long on the main north and south fronts , 58½ inches from east to west at ground floor level and is five feet high at parapet level . |
| 25 | A reminder that if you are going to the game , of course if is all tickets , so you must get your tickets from Oxford United before setting off on Tuesday evening . |
| 26 | At 63 , he works at the Open University and is another member of the local council . |
| 27 | And is and is a continuation of business or is this referrals ? |
| 28 | The recommendations of the Warnock Report and the legislation of the 1981 Education Act are significant in the educational placement of visually handicapped pupils , especially since the presence of visual impairments is no longer considered to be sufficient reason for special school placement nor is special school placement an inevitable consequence of the ascertainment of visual impairment . |
| 29 | There , illegal immigration contributes to a labour surplus that is depressing farm wages and making working conditions worse . |
| 30 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |