Example sentences of "is a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 2 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 3 | In the NSWP countries , as in the USSR , control over appointment is a proven method of controlling policy . |
| 4 | On some islands , there is a lethargic variety of sea-snake which lies on the sand in the shallow , and which can give a nasty poisonous bite when stood on . |
| 5 | This is a horrifying conflict on our own doorstep . |
| 6 | There is a horrifying similarity between these two views of Swanage beach : above , 1930 , with its row of bathing tents , and below , 1944 , with its concrete bollards . |
| 7 | It is a horrifying catalogue of crime and of utter disregard for the Geneva convention . |
| 8 | A copse is a smallish group of trees |
| 9 | Fair Isle is a cliff-bound island of only about five hundred hectares in extent and lies midway between Orkney and Shetland . |
| 10 | Whether badgers merit greater legal protection is a much-debated question among producers in the south-west where damage to farms is known . |
| 11 | Whether badgers merit so much protection is a much-debated point among farmers in areas such as south-west England , where badgers are plentiful and do cause damage on farms . |
| 12 | I shall concentrate upon the claim that there is a fruitful analogy between the development of species through natural selection and the growth of knowledge . |
| 13 | THIS is a mighty year for your life direction , and it seems that you are not solely responsible for how well you do . |
| 14 | For me this is a mighty rendition of the score and all the more inspiring for the impression that its power is tapped from within . |
| 15 | It is a still point in a changing world . |
| 16 | Peace is a distant hope in Guatemala . |
| 17 | Just as the O'Jay 's ‘ Love Train ’ and Silver Convention 's ‘ Fly Robin Fly ’ were intimately related , so the cheapest , nastiest nosebleed rave track is a distant cousin to the greatest night at Paradise Garage . |
| 18 | Bucharest 's Otopeni terminal is a distant fortress of grey and black , its approach obstructed by piles of rubble and tiny , dwindling buses winding across the runway . |
| 19 | ‘ A letter dropped through the post from the President of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro , inviting me to the funeral , ’ said John Kennedy , a Conservative Party member who lives in Barking and is a distant relative of Nicholas . |
| 20 | ‘ Vegetable in origin , Quorn is a distant relative of the mushroom … [ which ] occurs naturally in the soil . ’ |
| 21 | The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat . |
| 22 | She is a kindly-looking girl with thick white legs , and her slip showing . |
| 23 | This is a nest-building species in which the male guards the young fry after they hatch . |
| 24 | There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres . |
| 25 | Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’ |
| 26 | He gazed across a sea of Union Jacks , stood like a guardsman for the national anthem and admitted : ‘ This is a fantastic day for me . |
| 27 | This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers — puffin , falcon , raven , gannet , guillemot and cormorants , to name but a few , make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year . |
| 28 | ALL I want is a fantastic time with just as crazy a female . |
| 29 | On the wall is a surviving panel from 6843 . |
| 30 | Woodwalton Fen is a surviving fragment of reed swamp and open water , of woodland carr and wet heath which , at one time , covered a vast area of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire . |