Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most complete surviving part is the tower , and the fittings in the first-floor hall are particularly fine . |
| 2 | Another historic building is the house in The Causeway where Bonnie Prince Charlie resided before his victory in 1745 . |
| 3 | A solid defence is the hallmark of a well-taught student . |
| 4 | Implicit in this emotional narrative is the assumption that their academic success of the time would serve as the platform for future literary achievements , and would lead inevitably to public recognition of their undoubted talents . |
| 5 | The only thing miraculous about my hypothetical story is the coincidence between my being struck by lightning and my verbal invocation of the disaster . |
| 6 | Due diligence is the investigation of the vendor 's business by the purchaser and its advisers before contracts are executed . |
| 7 | Adequate professional preparation is the result of the developing relationship between theory and practice . |
| 8 | The outstanding instance is the choir of Canterbury Cathedral , rebuilt by William of Sens ( so-called because of his work on that French Cathedral ) in 1175–84 . |
| 9 | Bell 's most important surviving building is the Customs House , King 's Lynn , built in 1683 as an exchange and sold to the customs authorities in 1718 . |
| 10 | Normally to raise funds the houses could think of selling off bills but with a general shortage of liquidity the only possible buyer is the Bank of England . |
| 11 | The working part is the l.e.d. , D1 . |
| 12 | Beautifully conditioned hair is the secret to high glamour styles . |
| 13 | The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power . |
| 14 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 15 | Hiding behind the future role of the European Parliament is the spectre — as seen from London — of the bandwagon for full European political federalism . |
| 16 | A classic case is the pressure brought to bear by the World Bank in agriculture in the 1970s in support of island projects , the efficiency of which would be ensured by hiving them off from executing ministries , and appointing expatriate ( mainly European ) managers to run them . |
| 17 | ‘ An odd coincidence is the fact that Franklin D. Hauser , chief executive of INCUBUS , has his English home in a mansion not two miles from that bell tower . ’ |
| 18 | A complete contrast is the restoration work on the landscape park at Berrington Hall in Herefordshire , where many of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century features and vistas have been uncovered or reintroduced . |
| 19 | However , the most striking result is the relationship between the ratings of subjective risk themselves and the subsequent probability of recall . |
| 20 | Usually the right side is the purl side , while on the knit side the weaving hardly shows at all . |
| 21 | Articulated grief is the gate of newness . |
| 22 | Another key element of Bush 's economic programme is the promotion of free trade and investment . |
| 23 | The first of the four stages in the creation of regional consciousness is the assumption of territorial awareness and shape . |
| 24 | The sole criterion is the market price of the land . |
| 25 | With Anti Turk Test the sole parasite is the guest worker Turk . |
| 26 | If the epitomist added the two letters to his summary of the history of Jason , his epitome must be dated after 124 B.C. The only possible alternative is the assumption that a later interpolator added the two letters to the epitome of Jason . |
| 27 | Relations between the Vikings and European civilisation is the theme of the second part of the exhibition . |
| 28 | The War of the Spanish Succession is the name given to a period of European conflict from 1701 to 1714 , fought between Britain , Austria . |
| 29 | For this reason Bilson ( 1981 ) wrote the speculative efficiency hypothesis as : where the right-hand side is the rate of change of the exchange rate and is called the ‘ forward premium ’ . |
| 30 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |