Example sentences of "[noun sg] and is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fothergill 's 1991 seed catalogue includes a fully functional model which has a traditional iron wheel and is priced at £179 . |
| 2 | Mitcham which contains a number of interesting Georgian houses , is now a separate borough and is well known for its historic cricket green and its lavender factory . |
| 3 | Sikhism is a comparatively new religion and is meant to be a religion of reform which rejects both the caste system and the oppression of women . |
| 4 | The bible forms the basis of the Christian religion and is the source of its concretion . |
| 5 | Another explanation of the vicar 's selfishness is possible , namely that he does not live up to his religion and is therefore a poor representative of it . |
| 6 | But there is another , perhaps rather less obvious , reason to avoid candid recording which is associated with the subject 's self-image and is most easily understood by continuing to draw a parallel with photography . |
| 7 | It has not emerged in isolation and is a strand of the overall trend in personal computing towards extremely small , powerful , easy-to-use devices . |
| 8 | The exponent n is the Avrami exponent and is an integer which can provide information on the geometric form of the growth . |
| 9 | The Library Instruction Round Table ( LIRT ) is a unit of the American Library Association and is made up of academic librarians , school librarians , library school personnel , public librarians and special librarians . |
| 10 | The workforce is currently completing work on a 32-house site off Newport Road for the Cleveland and Teeside Housing Association and is working with Middlesbrough Council to construct 60 more homes for sale on a site within the council 's City Challenge area . |
| 11 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 12 | One physical reason for difficulty which is greatly exaggerated in popular thinking and is even claimed mistakenly as the basis of some sexual dysfunction is that of abnormal size in the sexual organs . |
| 13 | Buzan claims that this pattern of note-taking conforms more closely to the pattern of our thinking and is , therefore , more useful for later recall , for preparing tutorial questions or revising a topic for an exam . |
| 14 | The Federation is represented on the Training Committee of the RYA and is organised by a modern secretariat and an elected committee . |
| 15 | The main grist to the mill of policing was working-class youth , but the perennial conflict between youth and the police is one with ever-changing persona and is not the basis of political conflict . |
| 16 | Firstly , Seefeld is just 14 miles from fashionable Innsbruck and is set high on a sunny plateau . |
| 17 | The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol . |
| 18 | Lit claims to have become chairman of four companies which control between them 45 per cent of Spectrum 's stock and is pledging to fight Harmony Investments to the end . |
| 19 | The basic distinction is that income is a flow and therefore is measured per unit of time , whereas wealth is a stock and is measured at a point in time . |
| 20 | If , for example , a GEMM has acquired an unusually large amount of a particular stock and is known to be keen to sell , other market makers may cut dealing prices ; conversely , if a GEMM is known to want to buy large amounts of stock , other market makers may raise prices . |
| 21 | Inter alia , the Inland Revenue are reluctant to grant clearance where the consideration is loan stock and is redeemable within a relatively short period , and clearance is usually given only if the loan notes can not be redeemed within the first six months after issue . |
| 22 | It was known locally as The Creamery and is now a house . |
| 23 | San Jose , California-based 3C , now trafficking as Super Workstation with ex-Sony VP Mike Hilgenberg in as president , claims it is making the LSI/Sbus-based CPU and frame buffer boards for Goldstar 's Sparcettes in the US and shipping them to Korea for final assembly : it also says it 's planning a Viking-based add-in card and is designing its own Sbus/Mbus 24-bit and 32-bit graphics accelerators . |
| 24 | Each lexical item is given its own card and is filed alphabetically . |
| 25 | The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine . |
| 26 | Jon Marchant , Granada 's sponsorship controller , was a principal negotiator on the PowerGen deal and is drawing up ITV 's plan to put next year 's World Cup sponsorship out to tender . |
| 27 | This reflects a clear preference for an offence-based rather than an offender-based tariff and is in line with the proposals contained in the White Paper ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.19 ) . |
| 28 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 29 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 30 | A Thames barge has no keel and is afloat in the first few inches of shoal water . |