Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To all intents and purposes this camera 's output is treated the same as that from any of the cameras down on the studio floor , and can be manipulated accordingly . |
| 2 | At the same time , nature is given the lifeless and blighted quality of man 's world : " ragged cabbages " and " dishevelled chrysanthemums " are odd collocations because ragged normally applies to clothes , and dishevelled to hair . |
| 3 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 4 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 5 | This is the fast and furious world of grasstrack racing … the event a competition on the outskirts of Oxford that 's attracted the best and bravest in Britain … for the grand prize of Masters champion nineteen ninety two . |
| 6 | The Informix version is priced the same as the Ingres board at £10,000 . |
| 7 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 8 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 9 | When the net is set the top and bottom lines are tight , but the net itself remains slack . |
| 10 | Of many friends , whom I love and esteem , my head & heart have ever chosen you as the Friend — as the one being , in whom is involved the full & whole meaning of that sacred Title — God love you , my dear Poole ! and your faithful & most affectionate S T Coleridge |
| 11 | But if by eclecticism is meant the random and expedient use of whatever technique comes most readily to hand , then it has no merit whatever . |