Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has one of the highest proportion of drug deaths in Britain ; a committee of MP 's heard recently that drug overdoses were the single biggest killer among the city 's young . |
| 2 | Whilst research students are registered within one of the above Departments , research in the Faculty is arranged under ten areas of Research Specialism as detailed below : |
| 3 | Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents . |
| 4 | It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma . |
| 5 | When using the tuba as an independent bass to the trombones in held chords the most satisfactory result is obtained if the tuba is placed rather low , even if this results in a big gap between it and the bass trombone . |
| 6 | Both will fire more when an edge is placed slightly off-centre than when it is symmetrically placed , an on-centre cell when there is more light than dark edge in the field , and the off-centre cell when the conditions are reversed . |
| 7 | Erm inward investment in terms of the county council 's economic development strategy is recognized as important and I think Professor Lock quotes the economic development strategy . |
| 8 | It is intended that much of this material be available before the system is handed over . |
| 9 | HAREWOOD IS SITUATED just 7 miles north of Leeds on the A61 to Harrogate , only 22 miles from York and 5 miles from Wetherby . |
| 10 | The Austrian government has also strongly criticized the plans : the plant is situated just 40 miles from the Austrian border . |
| 11 | Penns Hall is situated just 6 miles from the centre of Birmingham and Birmingham International Airport . |
| 12 | The Hall is situated approximately 5 miles from the Polytechnic in an attractive high income suburb . |
| 13 | The village of St Mont is situated about 100 miles south of Bordeaux . |
| 14 | The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road . |
| 15 | The village is situated about three miles north of Market Weighton , just off the A163 . |
| 16 | Convenient to the Hazel Hotel , and to shops the studio is situated only 50 minutes from Dublin . |
| 17 | This comfortable hotel is situated only 30 yards from the seafront and is a long-time favourite with Citalia guests . |
| 18 | Where the public lack of confidence focuses on teaching competence and it 's justified then all steps possible should be taken to provide additional training and guidance . |
| 19 | Cruelty in general comes easily to the childish nature , since the obstacle that brings the instinct for mastery to a halt at another person 's pain — namely a capacity for pity — is developed relatively late . |
| 20 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 21 | Pay particular attention to what is regarded as essential as these points should remain uppermost in your mind while making a preliminary selection from application forms and while interviewing . |
| 22 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 23 | Nowadays it is regarded very much as a ‘ party trick ’ and there are only a few helicopter radios which feature an ‘ invert ’ switch . |
| 24 | If you can not find the card , it could be for one of two reasons : that the library does not hold a copy of the book ; or that the book is of a special kind and is listed under one of the special catalogues . |
| 25 | That 's why he 's travelled so much . |
| 26 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 27 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 28 | So a snarling , spitting , clawing prey is given rather more respect than it may appear to deserve . |
| 29 | BUYER : ( e.g. car dealer ) : Your newspaper is given away free . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Olivetti 's relationship with OEM supplier Pyramid Technology Corp is given just two or three years more years of life . |