Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Natural Environment with its unlimited potential for dilution , organic breakdown , photosynthesis and nitrification , such waste material has little , if any , immediate effect and is essentially absorbed and recycled into the biological chain of events . |
| 2 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 3 | In this situation the contingent relation results in the strengthening of the behavioural response and is therefore described as reinforcing . |
| 4 | Manson was , and remains to this day , America 's number one bogeyman and is regularly pilloried and looked on in fascination by a world that still ca n't believe such things happened . |
| 5 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 6 | Common to most ceramics , alumina does not cause adverse reactions on implantation and is generally classified as being inert , or nearly inert . |
| 7 | Cuthbert has retired from top level competition and is now owned and ridden by Mary 's head girl |
| 8 | And the story behind these instruments is that Roberto Brandoni , a London-based importer of Italian musical goods , stumbled upon a warehouse full of necks , bodies and parts , bought the lot and is currently assembling and selling them . |
| 9 | The novel opens with a page-long diatribe about the age of middlemen which appears to be the opinion of a third-person narrator but is subsequently identified as ‘ disloyal thoughts … not precisely verbalised as they turmoiled through the hazily discontented soul of Rusty Conway ’ ( 5–6 ) . |
| 10 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 11 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 12 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 13 | It is often the case , especially in religious matters , that wherever controversial premises are stubbornly adhered to , and crystal-clear reasoning and all human intelligence cries aloud in protest but is ruthlessly suppressed and ignored , then an endless supply of written matter is assured for evermore . |