Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government .
2 This is shocking , but the effect is doubled when Helen finally appears .
3 Administration is ensuring that Gary and Tim get back-up supplies , are advised of scheduling changes and get paid on time .
4 The quality of the full product range is assured because Fluka assay every chemical and bio-chemical , and subject all products to exacting tests in their well equipped quality control laboratories .
5 This influence is acknowledged when Dustin meets Mia at the bar and overhears her discussing what is obviously ( though it is coyly not named ) , Jean-Luc Godard 's Weekend of 1967 .
6 In the Domesday Book the village is recorded as Schitebi , a berewick or manor cultivated by the monks or canons of Beverley .
7 DOMIS recognised Transportation 's flexibility to move staff sideways where help is needed and NALGO have lent support .
8 Then , of course , any critical function which natural law might be supposed to have in constraining the content of positive law is dissolved and Finnis 's natural law with a variable and changing content is revealed as serving the purely ideological function of justification and not an epistemological function in respect of what ought to be .
9 The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last .
10 Big , bearded and broad-shouldered , he is studying for the ministry , on a campus where black theology is preached and Christ is held to have advocated violence .
11 But the synthesis is fractured when Marcel recognises an external world that can confound this absolute complementarity : De Man calls this appeal to objects in their " natural state " , the " test of truth " ; it reintroduces an objective world to challenge the intratextual complementarity of inside and outside worlds : the totalised synthesis of subject and object .
12 This fantasy is shattered when Magwitch suddenly re-enters his life and announces himself as the mysterious benefactor .
13 When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) .
14 To experience joy in suffering is to realize that Jesus stands with the poor , the underprivileged , and those , like Francis of Assisi , rejected by their own people .
15 Taylor faces his FA bosses tomorrow fully aware that his minimum requirement is to ensure that England reach the finals in two years ’ time .
16 If the question is asked whether Gandhi is not aware of the dangers of contradiction in his use of personal and impersonal terms to describe God , the answer might be that it would depend whether the personal use of the term God refers to an entity , or being , in the form of an extra-mundane person , whether or not a contradiction is involved .
17 A baby 's cry is heard and MRS .
18 First job is to check that Tony , a boy who is brought to school by mini-cab is in .
19 You will have to pay an arrangement fee of 0.5% of the sum advanced on all mortgages , except where an endowment mortgage is agreed and Midland Life policies ( see insurance ) are taken out to cover the entire mortgage .
20 One of the country 's foremost experts on chemical warfare is warning that London could be attacked by Iraqi terrorists using the deadly weapons .
21 Graham warned his stars last week that he would not suffer overpaid under-achievers — and the suspicion is growing that Limpar was one of the main targets .
22 The aim is to ensure that Graseby Andersen has adequate resources to fund further growth , possibly by the acquisition of complementary companies or product lines .
23 One purpose of this article is to show that Britain is different , and different in ways that are important politically as well as in law .
24 His residence is shown as Newcastle , and a later hand-written note states : ‘ Newcastle on Tyne , 16 April 1845. 2nd Class .
25 The product is needed because Tuxedo is so hard to programme , and interfaces have previously had to be written using C. Accell/TP allows you to get to the functionality of Tuxedo using procedure calls .
26 The blessing is given when Jacob , and we , the hearers of the story , least expect it .
27 The stricture implicit in the parenthesis within that quotation is justified and Mr Wallace explains those implications in more detail in his introductory chapter when he criticises the draftsmanship of the contract in condign terms .
28 A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval .
29 Bénezet is saying that Tutilo is taken for murder .
30 Even after the king is killed and Macbeth is named king his ambition will not let him leave it at that .
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