Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale . |
| 2 | Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor , just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes . |
| 3 | If there is little to distinguish the Christian from his non-Christian neighbour , then discipleship can have little significance . |
| 4 | Here lies the greatest pleasure of greenhouse gardening , since there is little to equal the satisfaction of raising most of your own plants from seeds and cuttings , watching them grow and develop until they fulfil their potential planted out in the garden . |
| 5 | Communication between firms is unnecessary to achieve the market equilibrium , since this is done by the firms independently thinking through the logic of the situation . |
| 6 | Events have also shown that in this day and age the exercise of a right to silence affords protection for the guilty and is unnecessary to safeguard the innocent . |
| 7 | It is undesirable to finish the approach with very little airbrake , although even this situation , from the point of view of an accurate touch down , is better than full airbrake and too much speed causing the glider to overshoot the point . |
| 8 | This is understandable given the multitude of pressures and changes that characterise the teachers ’ working environment . |
| 9 | But National , which is due to join the stockmarket next month , never suffers from leaves on the line , says McEnhill , and BR 's privatisation should force rail fares higher and speed the closure of routes . |
| 10 | Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum . |
| 11 | The news comes just days before Stratus is due to take the lid off a nest of new symmetric multi-processing systems built around the Intel 80860XP RISC ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 12 | Leicestershire County Council is due to give the go-ahead to mine 1.5 million tonnes of coal a year from the north-east Leicestershire coal field on 14 April . |
| 13 | The Home Office is due to close the prison in 2 years time , with the building being passed on to Oxfordshire County Council for a nominal £9,000 . |
| 14 | A second legacy of Tiananmen has been increasing tension over the course of Hong Kong 's political development , with just six months remaining before China 's parliament is due to enact the mini-constitution , or Basic Law , setting out the pattern of post-1997 government . |
| 15 | The High Court is due to consider the case tomorrow of Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland , 21 . |
| 16 | I understand that Birmingham university council is due to consider the matter tomorrow . |
| 17 | This autumn the United Nations is due to pass the Convention on the Rights of the Child . |
| 18 | Back from holiday yesterday , he is due to meet the board . |
| 19 | Binder is due to present the report , together with the results , at the end of the month . |
| 20 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 21 | Is that eating the food or eating the weed ? |
| 22 | All I would claim is that given the existence of this phenomenon of extensive , very long-term memory of the campaigns of successful brands , the onus is on the mathematicians to disprove the existence of any long-term effect : the fact that they can not find such an effect , with the somewhat rudimentary apparatus at their disposal , is not enough . |
| 23 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 24 | What is that characterises the Kuwaiti ? |
| 25 | ‘ Who is that driving the chariot ? |
| 26 | An irritating feature of Wien filters is that to vary the pass or rejection frequency , ideally both capacitances or , as is rather easier , both resistances should be varied in sympathy . |
| 27 | It is pleasant enjoying the upgrading as new guidebooks come out ! |
| 28 | It is usual to record the fluid balance so that intake and output and their relationship may be assessed . |
| 29 | For tombstones which will be circulated outside the UK , it is usual to carry the legend : |
| 30 | It is usual to brush the body first , before proceeding to the legs . |