Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some form of pupil assessment , intelligible to everyone and as far as possible uniform throughout the country , is held to be essential since it is through such public assessment that what is taught and learned at school is most clearly related to the world outside school . |
| 2 | request or a direct request that something is changed , then it |
| 3 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 4 | When he brings his hands out of his pockets , the newspaper masks the brown envelope that he is holding . |
| 5 | We are all aware of the manipulating that is occuring in the creation of the new ‘ Greedy League ’ , but there is no visible sign that anybody is looking beyond the ‘ big boys ’ . |
| 6 | One of them , written by the InstaPlan Corporation of California , has the additional merit that it is sold in several packages starting from the basic planning system . |
| 7 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 8 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 9 | Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , told Unigram last week that it has a 64-bit part that it is playing with , but there is no operating system or applications up and running on it , yet . |
| 10 | They were speaking in favour of it , now here he comes along er and er we we 're I I find myself , regrettable I think because er er his er a minister very well informed in these areas with er who made in those committees a very powerful and effective contribution , now we find ourselves on the er opposite side but I have to say now that we are on opposite side that what is introducing today er is really er too little er and far too er too too late . |
| 11 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 12 | Despite the serious limitations to a general theory equating anomaly and mystical danger , there is respectable if sometimes ambiguous psychological evidence that what is perceived to be unclassifiable ( and this is perhaps the crucial thing ) is cognitively and emotionally disturbing . |
| 13 | It is currently a prerequisite of a qualifying corporate bond that it is expressed in sterling and contains no provision for conversion into , or redemption in , a currency other than sterling . |
| 14 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 15 | The basic message that he is trying to get across is an anti-war message which is present in all of his poems but the more precise message varies slightly with each poem . |
| 16 | The absence of any indication in the world line of the on-board clock that it is crossing the horizon was illustrated in Fig.9.1 and shows that the horizon is not a physical singularity ; rather , it is a mathematical singularity . |
| 17 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 18 | Encouraging the family to discuss a particular current issue that it is facing is often the best way of assessing the factors noted above . |
| 19 | There is good evidence that it is associated with individual galaxies as these seem to have dark haloes which extend well beyond the visible stars . |
| 20 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 21 | In many cases , it will be hard for the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is lying . |
| 22 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 23 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 24 | Well it 's where we 're called out , probably with the initial belief that somebody is trapped , and the person 's either released before we arrive there , or , you know , |
| 25 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 26 | It 's not Edward King , the man who was actually drowned and whom , as it happens , Milton hardly knew , it 's Lucidas , the figure of the young poet , priest , put to some extent on a classical model that he is writing about . |
| 27 | Nozick needs this conclusion to generate the sceptical problem that he is attempting to dissolve . |
| 28 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 29 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 30 | Her famous voice ( ‘ Percet ’ said Sir Colin Davis of the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden ) , is in such worldwide demand that she is booked up for years to come . |