Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air . |
| 2 | Employees possibly feel they do not reach their full potential in the job because promotion is scarce and the job is not stimulating either physically or mentally . |
| 3 | The section to the next town of Shanklin is built-up but the route improves dramatically on the way to and out of Ventnor . |
| 4 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 5 | It 's possible that the change of the school to the Sixth Form Centre for the area may facilitate this . ’ |
| 6 | It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days . |
| 7 | If there was a body , it 's possible that the singeing of skin and flesh might have left identifiable organic deposits on the woodwork , but the Wheel has been in the water for some time and we must n't expect much . ’ |
| 8 | The counter-arguments , which would uphold the principle of correspondence , are that breach of that principle is unnecessary when the amplitude of the crime of manslaughter lies beneath murder , and also that the definition of grievous bodily harm includes a number of injuries which are most unlikely to put the victim 's life at risk . |
| 9 | It is undesirable because the patient is totally dependent on someone coming into the home from outside and of course it is extremely expensive in terms of nursing time . |
| 10 | However the use of straightforward viscous friction is undesirable because the operation of the motor at high speeds is severely limited by the friction torque . |
| 11 | While certain proteins cause these effects to a less extent than others , it is generally considered that uncontrolled adsorption of protein on surfaces in large amounts is undesirable if the surface is to be biocompatible . |
| 12 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 13 | The head end is broad and the back end is marked by a tail-fin . |
| 14 | It is understandable that the public , disillusioned by what the system produces , find it easy to blame the producers . |
| 15 | Although it is understandable that the Minister can not be in two places at once , will she assure the House that her noble Friend will make a strong contribution to the conference ? |
| 16 | As the majority of the latter are either Moslem , Sikh or Hindu , it is understandable that the Church has encountered severe problems in trying to communicate her message , either with a view to attracting them into her fellowship or to see the significance of the gospel of Jesus Christ within their own cultural context . |
| 17 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 18 | With so much at stake it is understandable that the Department of Trade and Industry is doing everything in its power to avoid all-out war . |
| 19 | Given the topography of Madeira , it is understandable that the island roads are full of twists and turns , climbing and descending all the time . |
| 20 | It is understandable if the core discipline(s) , with their internal forms of evaluation , constitute the majority of the student 's course . |
| 21 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 22 | The only thing that 's true in that rag is the price on the front , which is a pity really — in this case the truth is stranger than the fiction … |
| 23 | The reinvestment return is 55.74 but the reinvestment risk is that on 15 February the 1-month rate will have fallen from the 9.25 per cent expected to , say , 8.75 per cent . |
| 24 | Its skin is sticky and the rider can not jump off . |
| 25 | I realized then that no music is vulgar unless the performance makes it so . |
| 26 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 27 | There is obviously a marked difference between the strategic and finance approaches , but they are not mutually exclusive : the one is strong where the other is weak . |
| 28 | The market for high quality , innovative plastic tubes is strong and the company is now well placed to seize the opportunity . |
| 29 | Like the friction consonants one of each pair is strong and the other is weak . |
| 30 | If the dramatic starting point is strong and the situation is clear , children will usually find roles for themselves . |