Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first .
2 But , oh , how the garbage is sanitised and transmuted by the alchemy of the machine !
3 With this row added to the tableau , primal feasibility is violated and the dual simplex method is used to restore primal feasibility .
4 The aim of the association is to increase and encourage research into the art of the Iberian Peninsula , also at an institutional level .
5 Measurement of f at each of m values of t would provide m equations for the m unknowns ; however , since f is measured and so is inexact , it may be thought better to measure f at n values of t , where unc in order to minimise the effects of experimental error .
6 We have talked a lot about the way grief is expressed and a little about various forms of grief .
7 Dealers insist that paintings should be treated the same way because of the auctions for dealers only , where ‘ dead ’ stock is exchanged and where new prices are set .
8 Each girlfriend is blindfolded and led down the line , burying her nose in the chest of each man — who must keep quiet — and taking a sniff .
9 Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it .
10 If a guest has indicated that he/she intends to settle by credit card , on arrival of the guest the credit card is requested and an imprint of the card is taken and signed by the guest .
11 If a guest has indicated that he/she intends to settle by credit card , on arrival of the guest the credit card is requested and an imprint of the card is taken and signed by the guest .
12 There is continual improvement in standards , since each discovery of a flawed experiment is published and leads to the tightening of future procedures .
13 A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective .
14 Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin .
15 My guess is that , if business e-mail is managed and retained , it will provide a fuller account of the development of successful ideas .
16 This paper will address later the way this sort of e-mail is used and the implications that has for legal and records management departments .
17 I suggest that records managers/archivists must first identify how e-mail is used and regarded in their organisation .
18 When her assailant is released and rapes again , her only recourse is yet again violent revenge .
19 The number of wines produced using traditional cultivation methods is increasing and standards governing these are being introduced in several countries .
20 Assessment is mainly by coursework ; a variety of teaching methods is used and participative learning is encouraged .
21 Immediate feedback is given and a ‘ help ’ section with examples is always available .
22 And and that I presume that the feedback is analyzed and decided from maybe as to the content of what goes on in studio and also on the main stage .
23 The icebox is refrigerated and the sinks and wash hand basins are served with pressure hot and cold fresh water .
24 Consciousness is structured and there are reasons for supposing that this structure differs with the socio-economic situation of the experiencing subject .
25 The principle of non-violence is still absolute in the sense that it informs the spirit and the circumstances in which violence is done and can produce feelings of remorse or instinctive horror as Gandhi calls it .
26 Questions about the forms violence is taking and how it is spreading grow more salient by the day .
27 Violence is avoided and talked down whenever possible .
28 It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place .
29 Right , later on it describes in enormous detail how the president is chosen and the electoral system and then under section two it gives several specific powers that the president has and I would like at least one contribution from this packed assembly here .
30 Even the biggest of the supermodels accepts that her shelf-life is limited and that , sooner rather than later , it will be time to step away from the catwalk .
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