Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation of an intraoesophageal balloon to between 2 and 2.5 cm diameter ( 8 to 9 ml ) , causes pain in normal subjects and is associated with peristaltic activity . |
| 2 | The Trapeze peninsular sink unit with Corian top echoes the shape of the angled units and is supported by an unusual chrome ‘ leg ’ |
| 3 | On every police authority of sixteen members there will of course as we 've heard be five nominees of the politician in London , three Justices of the Peace and eight councillors , coming of course from different political parties as is required by the legislation and in my view rightly required by the legislation . |
| 4 | The dualist ( I am here thinking primarily of the Cartesian type of dualism ) insists on the ontological separation of physical from nonphysical phenomena and is led to postulate a non-physical subject distinct from the body in an effort to explain the meaning of experience ascriptions . |
| 5 | SPIKE LEE has entered into a contract with Universal Pictures that is scheduled to run for years . |
| 6 | The first , by Anne Vallayer-Coster ( who has become tres chic since a runaway success at Sotheby 's Monaco some five years ago ) depicts a natural-history composition with marine animals and is estimated at FFr4–5 million ( £488,000–610,000 ; $743,000–929,000 ) . |
| 7 | This department is responsible for all cabins and public areas and is headed by the chief steward . |
| 8 | Information is held temporarily in electronic circuits and is lost whenever the computer is turned off . |
| 9 | It is probable that this signal is restricted to the vicinity of activated spines and is amplified by release from intracellular stores . |
| 10 | ( Spoken discourse , which happens in time only , poses different problems and is dealt with in 10 . ) |
| 11 | An increased freedom in life-style might be supposed to account for the increased variability in timing of daily rhythms that is found in the elderly . |
| 12 | The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone . |
| 13 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 14 | The first is typically within the purview of the natural sciences and is the subject matter of agricultural engineers and soil scientists , while the second is within the social sciences and is studied by economists and sociologists . |
| 15 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 16 | For the Frankfurt School , ‘ ideology ’ is a concept to be used in the political interpretation of social forces and is predicated on a Marxist theory of the political history and structure of society . |
| 17 | Secondly , the same relationship to sex offending could be posited with regard to the reporting in popular newspapers as is adjudged with the supposed link to video nasties . |
| 18 | These standards have been evolved from such current consensus of damage-awarding tribunals as is manifested by the amounts they have in fact awarded in broadly similar cases . |
| 19 | He pointed out that the latency period is absent in primitive societies and is found only in higher cultures . |
| 20 | In other parts of this small tomb he paints reclining banqueters , such as are constantly found on Etruscan tomb-walls and Greek vases , following the old conventions , though he puts much more variety into the expressive faces than is found anywhere else . |
| 21 | But it is normally an appeal to possible rather than to actual cases that is used to generate scepticism about the existence of minds other than our own . |
| 22 | The copulatory bursa , which embraces the female during copulation , is important in the identification of certain male nematodes and is derived from much expanded caudal alae which are supported by elongated caudal papillae called bursal rays . |
| 23 | It is imperative that they establish a good working relationship with a legislative branch that has real teeth and is characterized by a deeply fragmented structure of power . |
| 24 | The changing pattern of agriculture in Sussex is shown by the Ministry of Agriculture Annual Returns and is outlined in Table VII ( p. 37 ) . |
| 25 | This ‘ lake effect ’ modifies the climate considerably within 40-50km of individual lakes as is observed in the Great Lakes region of North America . |
| 26 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 27 | Summary trial covers the less serious offences and is commenced by the laying of information and a summons . |
| 28 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 29 | The tradition is then perpetuated through the standard textbooks and is transmitted in teaching by asking students to ‘ do it my way ’ . |
| 30 | Price/earnings ( P/E ) ratio ; this is based on the latest annual earnings and is calculated by dividing the market share price by the last declared figure for earnings per share . |