Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 2 | An ‘ invention is the solution to a problem , often a technical one , whereas innovation is the commercially successful use of the solution ’ ; so say Bacon and Butler ( 1981 ) . |
| 3 | The strand of the overall Whitehouse philosophy that was referred to above , and which , perhaps , is only implicitly suggested by the two examples discussed , is the particularly vulnerable position which , she feels , young people occupy , especially with regard to the pernicious influences of the mass media . |
| 4 | Cellulite is the particularly ugly type of fat found around the hips , thighs and upper arms . |
| 5 | A justly famous early hominid is the remarkably complete Australopithecus afarensis known as Lucy . |
| 6 | The only exception to the rounded , impregnable exterior is the richly carved stone porch , added in the fifteenth century to the south side . |
| 7 | This is the coldly correct relationship which prevails in these patrilineal societies between the nephew and his paternal aunt . |
| 8 | Alternatively , there is the softly-softly Unionist strategy , based on finding more common ground at district council level time for such an interim stage , many would ask . |
| 9 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 10 | Thus , the description ‘ low vision ’ used in the educational context is the generally accepted term for those children who are able to use their vision quite effectively in the near environment under suitable lighting conditions , in an appropriate working position and , in many cases , with the use of magnifiers or individually prescribed optical aids . |
| 11 | This underlying cause is the persistently instilled belief that the universe was created by a ‘ god ’ — and this ‘ god ’ is the maker of humanity and must be worshipped , appeased and generally held responsible for everything ; to be credited with , and thanked for all that brings enjoyment , and outrageously excused for all that brings suffering . |
| 12 | The second tale " Chaucer " tells is the persistently solemn prose of the serious moralist ; a close , careful and caring translation of a French original . |
| 13 | Foremost among these economic constraints is the markedly low level of complementarity in the structure of production of the two regions . |
| 14 | One composer — and arranger ? — who appears prominently in the Morley , Rosseter , and ‘ Walsingham ’ collections is the otherwise dim figure of Richard Allison . |
| 15 | Its brightest star is the slightly yellowish Delta ( 3.6 ) , which makes up an inconspicuous triangle with Gamma and Alpha ( each 4.1 ) . |
| 16 | Finally , there is the primarily southern distribution of his Second Hand coin type of c.985-c.991 . |
| 17 | All you need is the freshly boiled hen lobster And , as it is not a classic regional or other recognized traditional dish , you can call it what you please . |
| 18 | To sum up , the 940 is the traditionally sensible Volvo product — well specified , spacious and solid . |
| 19 | And it is the already sleep-starved mums who are left to tip-toe along the landing ( so as not to wake hubby again ) to feed the baby and settle him down . |
| 20 | The evidence presented for this by the ‘ New Realists ’ and others is the seemingly inexorable rise of crime and the decline of ‘ clear-up ’ rates ( Lea et al . , |
| 21 | Dustin , with an unbecoming Mexican bandit moustache and frizzy hair , mercifully covered by a cowboy hat for most of the time , is the vastly successful multi-millionaire Bob Dylan-type rock composer George Soloway ( soul away , solo way ) , whose suicidal fall is broken on the couch of his psychiatrist Dr Moses ( Jack Warden with a ginger beard and , naturally , a German accent ) . |
| 22 | And there is the equally striking landscape of the vanished tin-mining industry : the windowless engine-houses , the monolithic chimney stacks against the skyline , the ruined cottages of an old mining hamlet , and the stony spoil-heaps — a purely nineteenth-century landscape , and perhaps because of its setting , the most appealing of all the industrial landscapes of England , in no way ugly but indeed possessing a profound melancholy beauty ( Plate 92 ) . |
| 23 | The only waiting area is the equally chilly station foyer . |
| 24 | The importance of reason in rationalism needs no further elaboration ; our concern here is the equally important role assigned to doubt . |
| 25 | The other end of the spectrum is the equally large population of elderly and retired people of the village who quite simply have nothing . |
| 26 | And it is the equally clear duty of a buyer 's conveyancer , with the buyer , to consider whether a plan correctly and adequately describes the property . |
| 27 | Pearl is the thoroughly Westernised daughter of Chinese immigrants to America . |
| 28 | The third type or landscape is the predominantly Bass farm with animals on permanent pasture , and this is still common in a belt running north-south from Lancashire to Dorset and into the south-west . |
| 29 | The remaining 15% or the Auvergne is not designated under the LFA Directive and this is the predominantly arable lowland in the fertile plains in the centre of the Auvergne ( see Figure 9 ) . |
| 30 | And what I most remember is the wonderfully happy way that you and he taught together — each taking up when the other left off so freshly and amusingly . |