Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transforming growth factor α is trophic to pancreatic cancer in vivo |
| 2 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 3 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 4 | The other leads to sustainable agriculture , which is beneficial to the environment , sensitive to consumer demand and produces safe and healthy food in a manner that is supportive of rural life and culture " . |
| 5 | Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] . |
| 6 | The proposal document , which is extensive by Minor Project standards , clearly reflects a strong team approach . |
| 7 | A further £2.7m is outstanding from last year 8.9% of the total . |
| 8 | This outcome could not , of course , justify the suggestion that discrimination training is unnecessary for positive transfer to occur , as the control subjects would have supplied for themselves what may be the critical feature of such training . |
| 9 | ( a ) Applying a false trade description to goods Proof of dishonesty is unnecessary for this offence . |
| 10 | I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman that it is undesirable for any delegation to stay away . |
| 11 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 12 | This is understandable for actual evidence can be only archaeological , and that means that such evidence would have to be of a concrete nature . |
| 13 | It is understandable of any man . ’ |
| 14 | The reluctance of translators to use it is understandable to some extent . |
| 15 | True Gothic would not waste money and he quoted Scott 's Remarks that a ‘ tissue of costly ornament over the entire building … is destructive of true dignity ’ . |
| 16 | But Alan Lyddiard 's adaptation is strong on physical impact — the sheer effort involved in ploughing , the hunger and pain of the animals ' lives . |
| 17 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 18 | A useful piece of advice to avoid this is to tell users that they should be trying to decide how attractive the industry is for some SBU that is strong in that industry . |
| 19 | ‘ He is due for immediate leave , I seem to remember . ’ |
| 20 | The record Jennifer refers to is called ‘ Above , Below And Beyond ’ and is due for British release soon . |
| 21 | Delayed maturation Some researchers have indicated that persistence of bedwetting after the age of 5 years is due to delayed maturation of the necessary mechanisms ( Bakwin and Bakwin 1972 ) . |
| 22 | The State acknowledges that the homage of public worship is due to Almighty God . |
| 23 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 24 | According to Isaac et al. ( 1982 ) the northerly dip on the Rusey and other thrusts in this zone is due to postorogenic tilting , perhaps related to the injection of the granites . |
| 25 | Indeed ‘ the whole piece is something of a dream ’ ( Hugo Young , The Guardian , 21 June 1988 ) , in which ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ ( according to Pearce ) because ‘ any resemblance between it and the world of 1988 is due to administrative oversight ’ ( Patrick Stoddart , The Sunday Times , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 26 | The ministry has pointed out that the incidence of the disease in four-year-old cattle is due to banned feed being used after the cut off date on 18 July , 1989 . |
| 27 | Partly this is due to better treatment , but the lion 's share of the credit must go to the invention of the smear test , which means that small growths can be picked up and destroyed before they get out of hand . |
| 28 | ( They add that most of the improvement in speed is due to better programming rather than advances in chip technology ) . |
| 29 | In the Third World land scarcity among the poor is due to skewed ownership , not an overload of people . |
| 30 | Their conclusions may be formulated as follows : if A conducts mining operations on his own land in such a way as to cause water to flood his neighbour 's mine and the inundation is due to mere gravitation , A is not liable ( or at least he is not strictly liable under Rylands v. Fletcher ) , but if the flooding is due to A 's accumulation of the water ( e.g . |