Example sentences of "is a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central character is a young BBC World Service journalist who , in search of a big story , finds himself adrift in a world of moral deprivation as his investigations lead him deep into the rotten heart of the city . |
| 2 | Pointless VII , 6 is a major Ben face route involving long runouts on thin ice with poor belays . |
| 3 | Visitors will be encouraged to have-a-go themselves as the club , now in its fourth season , dispels the myth that croquet is a genteel Sunday afternoon past-time . |
| 4 | Figure 5.13 is a contrast-stretched Landsat MSS band 7 image of the Leningrad region in the USSR . |
| 5 | The mystery man seen leaving a restaurant with the Princess of Wales is a former Coronation Street actor who is thought to have been giving her voice coaching , it was disclosed last night . |
| 6 | The contract , which contains the same strict rules as those governing coverage of Parliament , has been awarded to Barraclough Carey Productions - which Mr Carey founded with a BBC documentary producer , Jenny Barraclough - and Sevenday Productions , whose director , John Underwood , is a former ITN home affairs correspondent . |
| 7 | He is a former Whitby town councillor and was elected to Cleveland county council in 1985 . |
| 8 | ( ‘ B.M.F.L. ’ ) is a wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd. , an important bank , owned and controlled by the Malaysian Government . |
| 9 | The Wind Energy Group ( WEG ) is a jointly-owned Taylor Woodrow Construction and British Aerospace company that designs , builds and operates medium and large-scale wind turbines . |
| 10 | While this may not create such serious problems if the dog is a small Jack Russell terrier , a larger dog could quite easily knock someone over and cause serious injury . |
| 11 | The best of the fifty-four , mostly Nigerian , pieces from the collection of Dr Ratner of Chicago , which are also included in the sale , is a nineteenth-century Benin bronze memorial head surmounted by a carved ivory tusk ( est. £120–150,000 ; $210–265,000 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We all know that XR3s and Cossies seem to attract a lot of unwanted attention , but I feel I 'm paying too much insurance on what is a Plain Jane family saloon , ’ he says . |
| 13 | The Les Paul/Telecaster idea is a very Jimmy Page thing . |
| 14 | One of the best of these ‘ Collection Wines ’ is a 1969 Negru de Purkar ( £8.95 from Butlers Wine Cellar ) that blends Cabernet Sauvignon with native Saperavi and Rara Niagre grapes . |
| 15 | My computer is a modest Dolan XT PC with twin 1.44Mb floppy drives and two 105 . |
| 16 | For those who have n't yet encountered it , thirtysomething is a weekly US TV show which has reached the end of its second series . |
| 17 | John Miller , 57 , is a big Frank Sinatra fan . |
| 18 | This is a big Oxford Street site we 're talking about , Folly . |
| 19 | He is a big Des O'Connor fan and emulates the singer . ’ |
| 20 | Comparable in style and flavour is a 1990 Côtes du Rhone , Cépage Syrah from one of the leading producers of the northern Rhône , which Rhône and Loire specialist Yapp Brothers in Mere is selling for £6.50 . |
| 21 | The guitar itself , as you 're probably well aware , is a basic Les Paul shape in natural mahogany with no binding whatsoever , and the pickup selector is down just above the volume and tone pots . |
| 22 | There is a short Reynolds number range over which localized regions of turbulence neither spread nor decay ; the resulting features are called turbulent puffs and have a characteristic structure . |
| 23 | The 5 'D β1 probe has been described before ; the 5'J α1 probe is a 1.2-kb Kpn I- Pst I fragment isolated from a 4-kb Hin dIII genomic clone ( gift from A. Winoto ) . |
| 24 | The interest rate quoted is applied to the principal for the number of days of the advance divided by 365 if this is a domestic UK sterling deal ( 360 days for Eurosterling and most currencies ) , and the interest is repaid together with the principal at the maturity date . |
| 25 | John Beresford is a 700,000 Kevin Keegan recruit to Newcastle from Portsmouth , while Steve Agnew is trying to rebuild his career at moneybags Blackburn after a crushing injury . |
| 26 | Some pundits suggest that the capital gains tax battle is a shrewd White House softening-up exercise for an even more aggressive assault on the Democratic leaders in the next two to three weeks , designed to force a 1990 deficit-cutting agreement on Republican terms . |
| 27 | Easily Accessible : East Runton is a pretty Norfolk fishing village with ( apart from some basic stores ) two good pubs ( both serving food ) and a Greek restaurant . |
| 28 | Hard to Kill is a stuttering con-on-the-run action thriller squeezing second division Hollywood couple Steven Seagal and Kelly LeBrock into a third-rate corruption and conspiracy plot . |