Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 2 | If a foster mum ca n't be found Sami will have to be hand reared at the stables in Deddington , but the owners he 's much likelier to have a healthy life if he 's reared the natural way . |
| 3 | The four principal strings are tensioned by full-sized Schaller machines and , though each pair of accompanying drones are identical in gauge , each is assigned a different-sized machine key to let you know exactly which one is being adjusted . |
| 4 | Corpora may be raw ( text only ) , tagged ( each word is assigned a syntactic category ) or analysed ( parsed ) ( see $4.5.2 ) . |
| 5 | While I question the possibility of ranking Buid society as more or less ‘ peaceful ’ according to some culture-free , quantitative standard , I think it can be placed in a category of relatively ‘ peaceful ’ societies because of the complete absence of any social situation in which aggressive conduct is assigned a positive value . |
| 6 | On the circle is placed a second circle with a small window , the size of a picture . |
| 7 | BUT FAX MACHINES HAVE PLENTY OF SHORTCOMINGS , AS ANYONE WHO 'S RECEIVED AN INDECIPHERABLE SCRAP OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU . |
| 8 | The House , at Lytham St Annes , provides convalescence for 23 guests , and is situated a short walk from the sea and promenade . |
| 9 | In Woodstock town centre is situated the famous Oxfordshire County Museum , which vividly displays the Oxfordshire landscape and how the lives of its inhabitants have changed over the centuries . |
| 10 | The Old Town was developed from the 11th century , originally within defensive walls , around the rock on whose peak is situated the famed Edinburgh Castle . |
| 11 | Once grass cover is broken the steep slopes render the screes unstable and they slip . |
| 12 | He 's formed a useful partnership with Gordon Hunter and may retain his place in spite of the fact that Tommy McIntyre and Neil Orr are again available . |
| 13 | What 's highlighted the whole issue of safe sex is , of course , the advent of acquired immunity deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) . |
| 14 | Revenue from increased sales achieved in this manner may be invested in further development of IT and as soon as a new generation of IT systems is developed the previous generation may be offered for sale on world markets . |
| 15 | He 's broken every other rule in the book : why not this one ? ’ |
| 16 | He 's taught an awful lot of people , including myself , an awful lot of things . |
| 17 | The coastguard is designated a non-military organisation under the constitution , and its use as an escort would therefore not be as controversial . |
| 18 | The coastguard or Maritime Safety Agency , is designated a non-military force , and its use would circumvent the constitutional stipulation against foreign military operations . |
| 19 | The range is designated a Military Danger Area . |
| 20 | Because they are connected with the area of the cortex that is designated the auditory cortex . |
| 21 | He 's joined a growing band of young homeless in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck . |
| 23 | He 's joined the Liberal Party , and now he 's a very important cog in the cabinet . |
| 24 | ‘ My Ernie 's joined the Communist Party , ’ she announced gravely . |
| 25 | Where the target is listed an obvious starting point is the market price . |
| 26 | The woodwork is painted a pale stone colour throughout to complement the finely patterned wallcovering . |
| 27 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's contaminated the whole house ! |
| 29 | One frame of the film is exposed every six seconds and if the film is then shown at 24 frames a second , the motion is speeded up 144 times and provides a dramatic picture of the cells ' behaviour . |
| 30 | This 7,224-ton daughter of the industrial revolution is repainted every seven years , using 40 tons of paint . |