Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 2 | ‘ Young people are brought up in the age of the video , so they can assimilate television that is cut quickly to a good musical beat , whereas older viewers would think , ‘ Oh God , it 's too fast and I ca n't stand all that dreadful loud music ’ , ’ Shapero says . |
| 3 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 4 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 5 | There will always be books which are worth launching with a party because you are going to get wide coverage , but the half-page ad in Cosmo on your own is n't worth half as much as an advertorial that is tied in with a bookshop group . |
| 6 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 7 | On the northern Hebrides slope the sediment apron is up to 200 metres thick and is composed largely of an amalgamated sequence of mound-shaped mass-flow deposits . |
| 8 | He has played a leading part in representing the brewing industry and is acknowledged internationally as a world expert on hops . |
| 9 | The give-away is to watch carefully : chlorosis has the same yellowing between the veins , but it begins and becomes more advanced in the topmost leaflet , and is followed not by a pale green leaf continuing to struggle , but by its total collapse and withering as the iron becomes not just short , but wholly denied . |
| 10 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 11 | It is long ( perhaps 50 to 100 bits ) , and is made up of a series of short encoded fields specifying gates to be opened and control signals to be transmitted . |
| 12 | But the next exam on the educational ladder lays emphasis on what people know , rather than what they can do , and is seen primarily as a passport to university entry . |
| 13 | This machine has a baby AT motherboard using an UMC chipset and the AMI BIOS , and is spurred along by a 128 Kb cache . |
| 14 | This forms a stable platform , and further tipping can take place until the tip rises to 100 m or more and is shaped rather like a stepped pyramid . |
| 15 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 16 | The accompanying article stated that many UNTAC officials saw the hardline Khmer Rouge position as designed to undermine its rivals " in a long-term strategy that looks beyond the [ May 1993 ] election period and is aimed ultimately at a unilateral seizure of power " . |
| 17 | A wall — also red-ochre — shuts off the view , and is topped only by a violet and yellow-ochre hill . |
| 18 | Ltd. , and is shown here against a modern standard-size ball . |
| 19 | The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine . |
| 20 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 21 | The house stands in 3.6 acres and is used primarily as a residence by the XEU chief executive , other company executives and VIP guests . |
| 22 | Cream cheese may be moderate or full fat content and is used extensively as a base for dips , for cocktail fillings and for cooking . |
| 23 | The species type is very resistant to disease and is used extensively as a stock root for budding bush types . |
| 24 | One of the most useful class outlines to appear is that developed by Portes and is used here as a guide to the ramifications of class ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 25 | The Whitebred Shorthorn is a selected white strain of the Dairy Shorthorn , bred mainly in the English/Scottish Borders region , and is used largely as a sire on Galloway cows to produce the popular Blue Grey beef suckler cows of southern Scotland . |
| 26 | Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) . |
| 27 | The intersegmental sclerite is known as the spinasternum ( or poststernellum ) and is produced internally into a peg-like apodeme which , with the furca , provides areas for the attachment of the ventral longitudinal muscles . |
| 28 | A Labour moderate collapses and is taken off in an ambulance . |
| 29 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 30 | The filling has a slightly alcoholic flavour but is spoiled slightly by a little too much sugar on top . |