Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Their decision to retire is selflessly motivated by the recognition that we are now entering a new and election-oriented phase in the political process , ’ Mr de Klerk said . |
| 2 | The decision to retire is never an easy one for architects . |
| 3 | The single most difficult skill for the calligrapher to acquire is consistently good letterform in a rhythmic , written hand . |
| 4 | The income received is either spent on consumer goods , or withdrawn in the form of savings and taxes ( that is , Y = C + S + T ) . |
| 5 | The base cost is usually the original cost , but in certain circumstances the market value at 6 April 1965 or 31 March 1982 can be used instead . |
| 6 | Preferably targets should be set for individuals where the bonus earned is directly related to personal effort . |
| 7 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 8 | The tremendous disadvantage is , however , that when the drugs are stopped , the amount of weight regained is almost exactly equal to that lost , and long-term loss from short-term use of appetite-suppressant drugs has yet to be demonstrated . |
| 9 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 10 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 11 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 12 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 13 | A geometric lock which requires no force to lock is seriously out of adjustment . |
| 14 | As the transmitter itself is not connected to a real earth or ‘ ground ’ it is essential that the instrument used is adequately screened and all wiring connections are in good condition . |
| 15 | But the extra investment needed is simply beyond the reach of many growers . |
| 16 | The formate produced is then converted to CO 2 and H 2 . |
| 17 | There are any number of razor-sharp splinters and jagged , irregular surfaces , of course , but some fragments usually show what is called a conchoidal fracture : the surface is fairly smooth , but ridged with a number of concentric corrugations , centred on the point of impact of the hammer , and the effect produced is somewhat reminiscent of the appearance of the ridges on a cockle shell . |
| 18 | In Crohn 's disease , however , where the mononuclear cell infiltrate is both transmural and patchy , the neutrophils are mainly centred around ulcers and show little evidence of the activation that occurs on contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 19 | Every batch produced is closely monitored by quality and process control departments . |
| 20 | Both nationalized industries and local authorities publish a good deal of information on their various and diverse activities ( see chapters 8 and 10 ) In Type A nonprofit organizations the level of revenue raised is often regarded as indicative of the value that recipients place on an organization 's services . |
| 21 | An old-fashioned view of speech communication would be that what the speaker intends to say is coded , or represented , as a string of phonemes just like a phonemic transcription , and what a hearer hears is also converted by the brain from sound waves into a similar string of phonemes . |
| 22 | Thus , whilst not discounting the possibility of a long-standing personality trait , the appeal for imaginative empathy with which this chapter began is also its ending . |
| 23 | In ( 140 ) , make can not be substituted for cause — the causation evoked is too indirect — nor can cause substitute for make in ( 141 ) , for the opposite reason . |
| 24 | Your lack of concern about having no horse to ride is quite apparent . |
| 25 | Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand . |
| 26 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 27 | It might be appropriate if the receiving agent appointed is also the registrar of either the client or a target as appropriate . |
| 28 | It might be appropriate if the receiving agent appointed is also the registrar of either the client or a target as appropriate . |
| 29 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether in either of these situations the action taken is primarily concerned with punishment ; but the first example could fall within the definition of corporal punishment in the Act , which requires the action to have been taken wholly or partly for the purposes of punishment . |