Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bargaining is synonymous with trading or dealing and may be briefly defined as participation in mutually beneficial transactions . |
| 32 | Water is ill at ease when situated higher than the surrounding ground , almost as if it is impatient to tumble to a lower area . |
| 33 | It is characteristic of frogs and toads that live in more stable or predictable environments . |
| 34 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a gentleman 's country retreat on the Isle of Wight engagingly illustrates this coexistence : the south-east front ( Fig. 8a ) — to be seen against the harbour , a view that is socialized by boats and buildings — is Grecian in style and covered in stucco ; while the north-west front ( Fig. 8b ) , against a natural background , is ‘ of Monastic character ’ and built in local stone . |
| 35 | He or she is sick on Sunday and continues sick until the following Sunday . |
| 36 | The book assumes that by now the reader is accustomed to disappointment and knows more about the tragedy of defeat than the drunken elixir of triumph . |
| 37 | It is worthy of note that Pound then added that : ‘ Perhaps the dissenting opinion of Mr Justice Holmes [ in Lochner v. |
| 38 | A flat shelf 8 — 12 inches below the surface is ideal for plants that like to be partially submerged . |
| 39 | The 8mm has best strength/weight advantage and the 7.5mm is ideal for use as joining ferrules with its 5.5mm inside diameter to accept other tubes , including arrow shafts . |
| 40 | The instrument offers simple , clean and environmentally compatible digestion , minimal addition of extra chemicals or reagents , minimal danger of contamination of the sample , and it is ideal for trace and ultra-trace analysis . |
| 41 | The traditional way of practising scales — up and down the fretboard in two octaves — is great for technique but does n't help much for connecting your ideas all over the fretboard in any given key . |
| 42 | Born in Croydon , Surrey , he is married to Susan and has two sons . |
| 43 | He is married to Andrea and has three children , Diane , Stephen and Sarah , and one grandson . |
| 44 | ‘ She 's the one who is good at figures and has ability at the barbecue ? ’ she asked pointedly , deciding to get all these aggravating niggles off her chest . |
| 45 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
| 46 | There is no point in serving food which is good for kids but tastes so revolting that they wo n't eat it . ’ |
| 47 | Many accept that consumer confidence is good for business and have sought to give their members an advantage over competitors by drawing up a series of consumer protection measures , such as codes of practice , arbitration procedures and bonding schemes . |
| 48 | The parasite itself is oval in shape and possesses eight whiplike hairs or flagella ( hence Octo ‘ eight — mitus ) , of which two are particularly elongated and are used to propel the organism through its watery environment . |
| 49 | Evening Primrose Oil ( e.g. Efamol ) is helpful for PMT but does not contain any vitamins or minerals . |
| 50 | The cheese is firm in texture and has a strong flavour . |
| 51 | Although the facilities are mainly suitable for Fair Isle and intarsia , it is useful for tuck and slip designs too . |
| 52 | With the robust acceptance of hardship and violence proper to his time , he is opposed to flogging and has an open demeanour towards his crew which makes him popular but still respected . |
| 53 | When ‘ positivism ’ is so construed , it is opposed to realism and insists that theory is a guide to prediction rather than a source of substantive hypotheses about what could not , even in principle , be observed . |
| 54 | However when we attempt to unpack what is involved in measurement and to see how its discontinuity is consistent with the Schrödinger equation , then the puzzles and disputes to which quantum mechanics is heir become apparent . |
| 55 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 56 | The world is full of things that exist … ! |
| 57 | There is much of the poetry of Shelley and of Spenser , for example , written since they knew a woman , which has no mention of woman , and yet is full of love and fit to awaken and to satisfy love … . |
| 58 | Chatterbox is full of activities that help children assimilate some of the patterns of English — and encourage them to think and communicate on the way ! |
| 59 | The ancient town of Montreuil with its twisting cobbled streets and lovely old buildings is full of character and turned out to be a great favourite of ours . |
| 60 | Hay Lane in Swindon is full to capacity and has to turn families away . |