Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun] [conj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst there are many types of heart disease , the most common and the most tragic is the type that causes heart attacks and is called coronary heart disease . |
| 2 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |
| 3 | The CELL VACUOLE contains CELL SAP and is surrounded by the TONOPLAST ( inner membrane of the cytoplasm ) . |
| 4 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 5 | Stress Coat contains Aloe Vera and is aimed more directly at the fish itself , coating the gills and skin to protect them . |
| 6 | I remember her claim — which I found exciting — that semen contains Vitamin E and is therefore good for the skin . |
| 7 | Short-term memory has capacity limits and is readily purged , it probably keeps a record of the current situation , whereas the long-term memory is the repository of principles and strategies . |
| 8 | It has 11mm specification but is little heavier than a 9mm . |
| 9 | Enterprise Training is also proving its worth in helping more trainees than ever to find work placements and is committing additional resources to ensure that in the future such placements are available for all trainees . |
| 10 | In many operations more time is spent on searching for , collecting and assembling cleaning materials than is devoted to the pure cleaning function . |
| 11 | April 21 Baker visits Saudi Arabia and is informed by Prince Saud al Faisal that the Saudis will not take part in a " regional conference " . |
| 12 | David Dobson , 22 , of Elm Avenue , Brandon , has head injuries and is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 13 | David Dobson , 22 , has head injuries and is described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 14 | Should you promote a man who is effective and has leadership qualities but is very difficult to work with ? |
| 15 | She has communication difficulties and is unlikely to be able to deal with the matter herself . |
| 16 | • If your child has stomach pain or is vomiting , hold him so there is no risk of his inhaling any vomit . |
| 17 | There are none of us , including Cliff , a concrete contractor from Washington state , and his wife Sandy , who wanted to go to Paris this summer but lost the toss of a coin ; Bill , who writes travel guides and is comfortable only in his own company ; and Ken , a semi-retired naval man from Oregon , who spends most of the time wrestling with the impossible task of capturing the gigantic scenery in photographs . |
| 18 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |
| 19 | There is bred in them ( factory women ) a spirit of precocious independence which weakens family ties and is highly unfavourable to the growth of domestic virtues . ’ |
| 20 | The Solaris version of Unix uses multitasking , multimedia object management facilities and is able to build true client-server applications , which can be exploited by the Model 116 , which transfers eight bits of data in parallel and also performs byte-to-byte handshaking for increased data integrity . |
| 21 | In the Sikkim Himalaya , for example , forest clearance of steep slopes for maize and rice cultivation have accelerated erosion rates as is evidenced by dry gullies and an increased sediment load of rivers . |
| 22 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , would have included in the present s14(2) of SGA 1979 and its equivalent provisions under SOGIT 1973 ( as substituted by Sched 4 to CCA 1974 ) and the SGSA 1982 , the following provision which is worth setting out in full since it received Government approval and is likely to be re-introduced in the near future : ( 2A ) For the purposes of this Act , goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory , taking account of any description of the goods , the price ( if relevant ) and all the other relevant circumstances . |
| 23 | Other bit image formats are GIF , which uses LZW compression and is widely used for clip art ; PIC , which is used by the Halo screen art programme ; and CUT , which uses the enhanced small disk drive RLL compression algorithm . |
| 24 | If there is insufficient information on quantum then steps should be taken to recover the pursuer 's Medical Records , such further wages information as is required and so forth , if necessary by Specification of Documents . |
| 25 | The second uses glove puppets and is performed from a small booth to animate smaller crowds . |
| 26 | It is being sponsored by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency ( IPA ) , an organisation for promoting software technology that is related to Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry , MITI . |
| 27 | The Proteus Integrated Bioreactor from Wheaton Instruments is a benchtop stirred tank unit and is suitable for continuous or batch cultivation of anchorage-dependant or suspension cultures . |
| 28 | However , you must remember to choose plant material that is sufficiently small to give a clear outline , otherwise what you hoped would be an easily read message will look more like an illegible jumble . |
| 29 | Such lavas resemble raspberry jam that is half pips ( or is it wood shavings they use ? ) ; they are not so much liquids as pasty mushes of solid material . |
| 30 | DCO ( Spitfire Enterprises Ltd. 28pp , illus , sbk ) is the journal of the Southampton based Spitfire Society and is issued to members on a regular basis . |