Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We use a proprietary autumn fertiliser to encourage strong roots and stiffer growth , which is beneficial for the winter conditions ahead . |
| 2 | However , it is necessary to see the problem , not in terms of a battle between parents and Social Services Departments , but in terms of the welfare of the child , and therefore it is important to assess the new legislation as a means of safeguarding parental contact which is beneficial to the child . |
| 3 | The other leads to sustainable agriculture , which is beneficial to the environment , sensitive to consumer demand and produces safe and healthy food in a manner that is supportive of rural life and culture " . |
| 4 | Water volume can be a problem as about 10–15 litres a minute are produced which is equivalent to the flow of a running tap . |
| 5 | Each breed has an index figure , which is equivalent to the number of dogs required to be actually exhibited ( not just entered ) , to gain a five point green star . |
| 6 | The chick embryo proper comes from a very small region resting on the yolk and which is equivalent to the mammalian egg . |
| 7 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 8 | In this paper they took as seed metric the Kasner solution ( 10.26 ) which is equivalent to the Stoyanov solution ( 10.29 ) . |
| 9 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 10 | In fact , we re only solving the regression formula unc which is equivalent to the iteration with M ; this is in effect Bernoulli 's method of solution of unc ( |
| 11 | which is equivalent to the result derived by Dusak ( 1973 ) when the time period ends at time T ( delivery ) . |
| 12 | The standard size for soil stacks is 110mm which is equivalent to the old 4in cast iron waste . |
| 13 | After exclusion of patients with known causes of their ulcer disease , H pylori infection has been detected with a much higher frequency of 96% in subgroups with idiopathic gastric ulcers , which is equivalent to the H pylori prevalence in duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 14 | Under these conditions we detect a single band ( 3.6 kb Kpn I fragment ) which is equivalent to the two dysfunctional endogenous host Ea genes , or a band at 4.2 kb in BALB/c mice . |
| 15 | Considering the potentials at B and D to have components in phase and in quadrature with the supply , the double balance condition ( 7.8 ) is seen to correspond to these in-phase and quadrature components being separately equal which is equivalent to the amplitudes and phases of the potentials at B and D being the same . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , since only variables which are observable at the end of period t - 1 are admissible into the policy rule , these gut feelings are not allowed to have any direct impact on how , , is arrived at , although they may have an indirect influence through some other measurable variable which is admissible into the policy rule . |
| 17 | The range of such contextual material which is admissible under the rule is not entirely clear . |
| 18 | The requirements for State responsibility for an international wrongful act are breach of an international obligation which is attributable to the State . |
| 19 | That allowance is the proportion of the value of the goods which is attributable to the improvement by Y. If O does not sue Y but instead sues Z for conversion , then Z gets the benefit of the improvement allowance . |
| 20 | As the Hon. Gentleman said , several right Hon. and Hon. Members have purchased their own fax machines , the cost of which is reimbursable from the office costs allowances , and sufficient lines are available for all who wish to do so . |
| 21 | A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer . |
| 22 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The court has adopted a general approach to the interpretation of Article 10 which is favourable to the media . |
| 24 | Most booking agents charge a commission of 15 per cent which is payable on the gross fees for any live work . |
| 25 | These securities yield a given interest or dividend which is payable on the original face value of the security , not on its current market price . |
| 26 | The allowances referred to above have now been replaced with a personal allowance for all adults , plus a married couple 's allowance , which is payable to the husband in most cases . |
| 27 | See Practice Direction ( Evidence : Documents ) ( 1983 ) 1 WLR 922 which is applicable to the High Court and the Court of Appeal , but can well be adopted in the county court . |
| 28 | However it is plain from the Act of 1989 that section 11(3) applies only to the new procedure for extradition , set out in Part III of the Act , and has no application to the old procedure , set out in Schedule 1 , which is applicable in the present case . |
| 29 | At UniForum next week , the firm will show an Mbus-based Marixx DS workstation using a 66.7MHz HyperSparc RISC — which is plug-compatible with the Texas Instruments Inc-Sun Microsystems Inc SuperSparc — alongside Marixx DT , a Sparcstation 10 Model 30 clone which uses a 36MHz SuperSparc . |
| 30 | However , this was not due to my map reading ( which is impeccable by the way ! ) , but was the result of a mad dash around the dubious delights of central Luton in search of cycling gloves for Mr Jackson . |