Example sentences of "[art] [noun] is [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity is for ministers to address the supporters of the party without any filtering of the views they want to express . |
| 2 | ‘ For the most part the smoke you see from the Ridgery is from fires lit by persons of a different sort . |
| 3 | New measures have been introduced to counter the effects of the recession on training , and the board is on schedule to create national vocational qualifications for all major occupations by September 1992 . |
| 4 | But murder it is , and whatever leniency is called for must find itself reflected either in a verdict of not guilty by a jury , despite the facts , in the sentence of the court ( though in England the sentence is at present fixed by law ) , or in the exercise of some executive discretion . |
| 5 | The technique is of course patented and the trade mark ‘ Hot-Dog ’ is being sought . |
| 6 | The afternoon is at leisure to enjoy the marvellous scenery . |
| 7 | The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines . |
| 8 | They either indicate where the grave is without strings attached , or it becomes a shoddy exercise which should be refused . |
| 9 | In keeping with the analogy , Campbell holds that the variations are ‘ blind ’ — that we come up with a particular hypothesis is not determined by our current experience , is independent of whether the hypothesis is in fact going to prove true or successful , and is not a correction of previous unsuccessful hypotheses . |
| 10 | Yes sir , on the erm first part erm in in clarification if I might sir the erm question of er briefing the Chairman is in fact dealt with in paragraph forty seven of annex C of P P G twelve although I 'm grateful for information on paragraph forty eight , erm and it says amongst other things that er there shall be a briefing and that briefing , the contents of that briefing shall be made public can I press the er spokesman for the environment committee to tell us er why in fact that was n't done and whether he thinks there can be prop proper public debate if it is n't done . |
| 11 | On the whole , though , the story is of law playing a facilitative role . |
| 12 | The noise is like kindling crackling . |
| 13 | By publishing research , the scientist is in fact giving away his intellectual property , but if his paper influences others , they , in citing it , will ensure the future security of the original author 's ownership of that intellectual property . |
| 14 | Psychology sets out to fill the gaps left by these approaches , and in particular , to be ‘ a science which explains , vis-à-vis physics , why it is that the mind is by nature constrained initially to mislead reason in its dealings with reality ’ ( Canguilhem 1980 : 41 ) . |
| 15 | It seems , however , that if the auction is in fact held , then anything advertised to be ‘ without reserve ’ must be sold to the highest bidder . |
| 16 | Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia , Tubul , Great T'Phon and Jerakeen , the four giant elephants upon whose broad and star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests , garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven . |
| 17 | If none occurs , the defender is at liberty to strike at will . |
| 18 | Other land may , therefore , be available although the Department is at pains to point out that the Circular does not give the green light to a development free-for-all in the countryside . |
| 19 | The Department will make residential placements only in residential or nursing homes registered with Lothian Regional Council Social Work Department , with Lothian Health Board , or with any other Local Authority or Health Board in Scotland , or a Local Authority or Health Authority in England and Wales ; within the parameters on assessment , cost and availability of places set out in the Government 's Statutory Direction on Choice of Residential Accommodation , the Department is in principle prepared to purchase a residential service in any such home . |
| 20 | The scheme has run into some difficulties in finding both sites and sponsors , although the City Technology Colleges Trust , set up to promote the scheme , claims that the programme is on course to meet its target . |
| 21 | By ‘ contract ’ , I mean an educational contract , in which the institution is in effect undertaking to provide the student with the kind of programme that he or she wants , in return for the student 's active participation . |
| 22 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |
| 23 | Or alternatively if cash has been allocated for a later purchase of , say , an expected new issue of bonds and the fear is of prices rising , an investor can hedge by buying a future or by acquiring a call option . |
| 24 | A more sinister reason is that the horse is in fact running away from pain . |
| 25 | The effect is for labour costs to rise relative to the price of the product . |
| 26 | erm The effect is in fact to concentrate on the curling nose and the tufted beard at the expense of the wisdom and the artistic achievement . |
| 27 | The first shot in the movie is of Dustin writing a suicide note on the rooftop of the General Motors Building in New York . |
| 28 | The plan is for Fulham to share Stamford Bridge . |
| 29 | The plan is for publishers to donate their unsold magazines , presumably gaining a tax benefit in the process , and these will then be shipped overseas . |
| 30 | The plan is for Solvay to take over the hydrogen peroxide and persalt business , with turnover of £340m pa , while Laporte takes the organic peroxides and persulphates , worth about £65m pa . |