Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 2 | Trudgill and Labov obviously make certain assumptions here that feminists would criticise — for example that the category ‘ women ’ is coextensive with the category of housewives and mothers . |
| 3 | It is her father 's field , and it is pregnant with the harvest . |
| 4 | What indeed if she is pregnant at the altar ? |
| 5 | Although very little of the red underpainting is discernible to the naked eye in the finished portrait , its effect is perceptible in the freshness of the skin tones and the convincing wholesomeness of the flesh . |
| 6 | We are not in a position to identify potential benefits and pitfalls , but it does seem as if CCW is alive to the way in which all the schemes should integrate effectively . |
| 7 | The moderate Conservative , Sir Ian Gilmour , favours electoral reform precisely because he is alive to the fact that : " after electoral reform , no Labour party led by Mr Wedgwood Benn , say , would ever win a majority in the country . |
| 8 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 9 | Something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and this blank page where my fingers move . |
| 10 | Something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and this blank page where my fingers move . |
| 11 | Yes there is something outside his window , however near or far and it is alive but he does n't have to be seeing it and on the other hand something is alive in the room because actually if you look at the context of that , something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and the blank page where my fingers move . |
| 12 | These brilliant vitreous squares of colour catch the limited rays of light from the high windows of the drum and create a shimmering effect which glows and is alive in the semi-darkness of the church . |
| 13 | Yes there is something outside his window , however near or far and it is alive but he does n't have to be seeing it and on the other hand something is alive in the room because actually if you look at the context of that , something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and the blank page where my fingers move . |
| 14 | And that is why Misery is alive in the world today . |
| 15 | On a lease purchase contract , this clause does not exist and if you regularly fail to pay properly , the Leasing Company will arrive , fly your plane away and auction it — and then collect from you the difference between what is outstanding on the lease and the amount realised at sale . |
| 16 | ‘ He is outstanding in the air and has good composure . |
| 17 | He is dishonest in the way he makes a light-hearted , open contract with Antonio , which Antonio himself thinks is a joke . |
| 18 | If the mountain is beautiful from the shore , it is mouth-watering from the top of Ben Damph , and as we retraced our steps through the snow , elated at having finally swapped slippers for boots and crampons , we knew that nothing would keep us from it . |
| 19 | Our structural reality is pre-selected on the basis of value and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it is derived . |
| 20 | They will then be considered by the Restrictive Practices Court to decide if they are fair and reasonable , unless the Office of Fair Trading recommends that reference to the court is unnecessary on the basis that the terms are reasonable . |
| 21 | It is unnecessary for the purpose of this case to determine whether that decision is or is not correct : I will assume ( without expressing any view on the point ) that it is . |
| 22 | These results suggest that TCR -α expression is unnecessary for the generation of γ thymocytes . |
| 23 | It is unnecessary for the suspicion to be reasonable ; nor must the person be suspected of having committed an offence . |
| 24 | It is unnecessary for the Vendor to give these Warranties . |
| 25 | Both these countries indicate that the spoken language base is unnecessary for the specification of places and people ( a particular use which hearing users make of fingerspelling ) , since fingerspelled names are not used . |
| 26 | And the bird 's standard evasive tactic is ill-suited to the airport . |
| 27 | It is grubby from the sweat and dirt of several pilgrimages . |
| 28 | We can still retain the conceptual distinction ; we can say that academic autonomy is descriptive of the relationship between the institution and the state , while academic freedom characterizes the institutionalized accountability of the individual academic . |
| 29 | YUP PA A book in which everything is understandable except the author 's purpose in writing it |
| 30 | YUPPA GA Stomach ache masquerading as eyestrain ; a book in which nothing is understandable except the author 's purpose in writing it |