Example sentences of "[vb pp] is the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 2 | Molar loss is the number of places in the mandible where a tooth should be present but is not ; and molars expected is the total number of teeth that should be present in the available sample of mandibles ( mostly this is 3 per mandible ) . |
| 3 | Included is the actual program code for a finished application called Databox . |
| 4 | Oh , this is actually from varieties , this extract and erm , I 'm giving it to you , cos varieties here , but because the other element which we have n't considered is the actual appearance on the page of erm , middle English well this is actually early modern English . |
| 5 | What has been rudely shattered is the cosy depiction of British history as the progressive ‘ conquest of violence ’ ( Critchley , 1970 ) which is celebrated in the conventional accounts of the British police ( Reith , 1938 , 1943 , 1956 ; Critchley , 1967 ; Ascoli , 1979 ; Stead , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | One family tradition which is rigorously upheld is the big soul-food blow out which they all enjoy whenever Sheila returns from a tour , or when a TV project is over . |
| 7 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 8 | The datums to which any pitch attitude is related is the level flight cruise datums , the wings of the aircraft symbol covering the Horizon Bar . |
| 9 | what we 've , what we 've done is the said job where , where |
| 10 | One of the best major centres I have worked or seen is the International Congress Centre in Berlin , which has two auditoria with a stage in the middle . |
| 11 | The refuge has been more revealing about people and poverty than I 'd expected , because what it 's revealed is the hard edge of the sex differential . |
| 12 | Not to be missed is the spectacular flower carpet 1200m x 60m made up of millions of bulbs which will be replaced twice during the exhibition by late spring and summer flowers . |
| 13 | What is not to be granted is the pessimistic conviction that points of agreement can not be found . |
| 14 | Implicit in what has already been said is the inescapable fact that many old people have , by reason of physical frailty , a degree of enforced dependence which is unwelcome . |
| 15 | One is inclined to ask here just how well argued is the frequent claim that ‘ the unit of communication is the sentence ’ ( Armstrong 1971 : 428 ) . |
| 16 | Where the matter is one of European Community law the ultimate court to which an appeal may be made is the European Court . |
| 17 | What is needed is the right training and retraining and the government therefore makes available a wide range of training schemes and courses . |
| 18 | Strength is not important ; what is needed is the correct technique . |
| 19 | But one insider who believes more radical changes will be needed is the erstwhile engineering director , Michael Dunn , who resigned this week to join an engineering consultancy group . |
| 20 | What is needed is the urgent introduction of single tier training schemes of shortened duration with wastage rates of around 10% . |
| 21 | No convincing answer has been given to this criticism ; all that is offered is the general argument in favour of a specialized division of the profession which is free from hour to hour to engage in advocacy and other specialist work . |
| 22 | To be preferred is the Scottish king-list , which claims that he was captured and blinded by King Edgar , dying in Rescobie ( Angus , Tayside ) ; the annals of Tigernach confirm this by noting that he was blinded in 1099 , probably the date of his death . |
| 23 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 24 | The most important example and one easily overlooked is the symbiotic relationship of the stony corals which act as hosts to microscopic algae living within their tissues . |
| 25 | ‘ Tom , ’ I said , ‘ all they 've got is the bare fact of his winning the title , but did he win the Pipeline Masters ? |
| 26 | It 's it 's part of a programme , it helps get blood back to the hair fo We 've all got all the hair follicles there , what we have n't got is the capillary network feeding those hair follicles . |
| 27 | A more valuable model which is widely used is the three-element model termed the standard linear solid — consisting of two springs and one viscous element ( dash-pot ) or two viscous elements and one spring . |
| 28 | The data base which will be used is the annual Family Expenditure Survey for the fourteen years 1970-1983 — a total of some 100,000 households . |
| 29 | The only kind of storage that can cope with the sheer volume of data involved is an optical disc and the only practical format that can be used is the compact disc ( CD ) . |
| 30 | And as I 've mentioned already , the most common now used is the BASIC language , which sound like a rather halting English . |