Example sentences of "[noun] is [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | Composts for herbs in containers do not have to be elaborate mixtures , and the prepacked soilless kinds whose bulk is peat and sand , or those containing loam such as the John Innes mixes , are excellent . |
| 3 | Such barbarism is part and parcel of the liberal capitalist state : the throw-away society is trying to justify the throwing-away of human life . |
| 4 | Trained to respect the hierarchy of command , the military are well viewed by civilian organizations — including large public and private sector companies — where respect for the chain of command is part and parcel of ‘ the management 's right to manage ’ . |
| 5 | The result is inconvenience and confusion to families who wish to visit licensed premises . |
| 6 | One result is homophony or near-homophony in such pairs as phonetic/fanatic , erratic/erotic . |
| 7 | The result is weight and inch loss from just the areas we want to slim down . |
| 8 | The result is tragedy and death . |
| 9 | Maureen says her priority for homes is comfort and light — her own abode is a ‘ mixture of old and new ’ — and she champions individual taste over trendiness . |
| 10 | ‘ If you look at Chemicals & Polymers now , the majority of research is market and demand led , being done because you can see a customer need . |
| 11 | The essence of personal guidance is tact and sensitivity ; it implies a knowledge of people and a knowledge of books , and a skilful marrying of the two . |
| 12 | So the initial stage in the discovery of the unknown cause of a given observable effect is resolution or analysis of the effect into parts . |
| 13 | Minimum investment is £500 and interest is paid annually . |
| 14 | He also chairs the powerful Poppy Growers Association , which seeks to protect the interests of tribal people whose only living is opium and heroin . |
| 15 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 16 | Most election-timing talk is nonsense or propaganda . |
| 17 | Sir Terence Conran is chairman and thief executive of Storehouse plc , the £1.5bn retailing group formed when British Home Stores merged with Habitat Mothercare in January 1986 . |
| 18 | Fenna is flame and fire . |
| 19 | Fenna is flame and fire , and moves on the wings of the night that are dragon-wings , to dance with taloned claws and mock at hopes of safety . |
| 20 | I feel very strongly that in tennis , every stroke is catch and throw . |
| 21 | We did not drive her from Scotland , and her infant son died because he was born too early — her eldest boy is hale and hearty . |
| 22 | Biotechnology : much of the work is process and design oriented , with research programmes in fermentation , effluent treatment , diagnostic enzymes , microbial toxicity and biotransformations . |
| 23 | What seems to work is violence and money , and all political parties are engaged in a mad race to maximise the use of both . |
| 24 | The most common formation is flowstone where water seepage creates whole walls of calcite , or remarkable ‘ frozen rivers ’ . |
| 25 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 26 | There is no single answer to questions as to whether the use of law is right or wrong . |
| 27 | This attitude is part and parcel of the disease and the more advanced the illness , the more compelling it may become . |
| 28 | If the floor of the cave passage is rock or clay ( as opposed to water ) , even more calcite is deposited and builds up very , very gradually into stalagmites . |
| 29 | These days love is marriage and its compensation is alimony or success . |
| 30 | Love these days is bravery under fire and the compensation is medals and fame . |