Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more impressive than occasional pronouncements of Jesus about the Old Testament is his constant appeal to it in a wide variety of different situations . |
| 2 | Centre forward is my best position . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps , the most appealing factor of a duvet is its apparent lightness which also retains a great deal of warmth . |
| 4 | Team briefing is our main vehicle for communicating information about the company and for obtaining feed-back through the organisation . |
| 5 | Clearly only Mrs Guzzard can resolve the mystery , and arrives on stage to reveal that Colby is her own son and that his father , like Colby himself , was a " disappointed musician " . |
| 6 | Orme 's output totalled some 700 illustrations , but his monument is his British Field Sports of 1807 , described by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt ( 1928 ) as ‘ the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries ’ . |
| 7 | And the sense of speed is something deaf-blind people can really appreciate . ’ |
| 8 | However , in many horses , but not all , the best barometer of its degree of rising emotion is its top lip . |
| 9 | the juniper is her holy bush |
| 10 | As the old Stock Exchange saying goes : ‘ Your first loss is your best loss . ’ |
| 11 | Egypt 's best recent result is their 1-0 win over Bulgaria in Cairo in March last year . |
| 12 | The result is her five-month-old daughter . |
| 13 | One of the attractions of a national testing programme is its supposed potential to help decision makers with policy formation , for example with how to allocate resources . |
| 14 | Coaching is his big strength and that 's why he made such a phenomenal start , taking a bad side all the way to Wembley . |
| 15 | ‘ The mind is its own place , and in its self |
| 16 | Do you see the people in your mind 's eye-their facial expressions ? the colour of their clothes ? |
| 17 | Optimism is my middle name because , unable to agree on a name , my parents stuck a pin in a dictionary . |
| 18 | The analogy is his Chinese room , in which two Chinese-speaking people pass Chinese symbols backwards and forwards , in appropriate ways , watched by a non-Chinese speaking Westerner . |
| 19 | Such in-depth research is what Sunday-morning collecting should evolve into but seldom does . |
| 20 | These programmes must emphasise that scientific research is our highest priority , and they should be developed to convey knowledge derived from plant science research in interesting and innovative ways . |
| 21 | For year-round interest , firs like Abies lasiocarpa appreciate heavy , moist soil , although A. koreana is my personal favourite because it produces cones at an early age . |
| 22 | The chief architect of the subsequent dock system built in the nineteenth century was Jesse Hartley , and Albert Dock is his greatest monument . |
| 23 | ‘ The offer of the car is our last hope . ’ |
| 24 | Rob 's car is his only base and he finds the sense of homelessness hard to cope with at times . |
| 25 | No , this pay-off is our last chance , and one that I was n't prepared to let slip . ’ |
| 26 | I think a course of electroconvulsive therapy is what young Byrne needs . ’ |
| 27 | Theseus is no doubt right ( the double axe is his distinguishing weapon ) , but the other must be Peirithous . |
| 28 | The demand for labour is its marginal product ( derived from the aggregate production function in part ( b ) ) . |
| 29 | Yes when you go up there you 'll have to register but if you I mean I presume the university term 's what ten weeks ? |
| 30 | What makes them different to other chemicals containing chlorine is their molecular make-up . |