Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] is [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that a new car which is damaged and then repaired so as to be " as good as new " can still be regarded as " new " . |
| 2 | This global negative self-statement brings emotional distress which is intensified and maintained by Automatic Thought 2 ‘ that to be distressed is a sign of weakness ’ . |
| 3 | What i emerges is depression is a common condition which is under-diagnosed and under-treated . |
| 4 | Then the car itself is stolen and hidden in a quarry . |
| 5 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 6 | According to him , there is a strict dualism between mind , whose essence it is to think and perceive , and material , unthinking , extended body . |
| 7 | In these cases , the absolute privilege attaches only to the maker of the statement : when it is reported or broadcast , the organisation which does so is protected by a privilege which is qualified and not absolute . |
| 8 | In Skinner 's instrumental learning/conditioning process ( as opposed to Pavlov 's classical conditioning ) the student emits a foreign language response which is comprehended and thus rewarded by the reinforcement of the teacher 's approval . |
| 9 | Questionnaires depend on the use of some verbal stimuli — normally a question , but sometimes a statement expressing an attitude or an opinion — designed to elicit a verbal response which is recorded and subsequently analysed along with other responses from other interviewees . |
| 10 | Equally a yacht which is cruising and has more power-consuming electronic equipment , such as a refrigerator , which might use 200 amps during a week , would require a much larger generator , one that could recharge at 28.6 amps per day ( 1.2 amp/hr ) . |
| 11 | One such experience which is peripheralised and rendered invisible is the poverty associated with unemployment , as Townsend ( 1979 ) has shown . |
| 12 | A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course . |
| 13 | It entitles every pupil in maintained schools to a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based and which , as the Act says : |
| 14 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 15 | They 're members of the Taylor Woodrow team and part of the consortium which is designing and constructing the largest underseas transport system in the world . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Nobody enjoys taking part in any sport which is restricted and , in effect , this will be a one-mile marathon . ’ |
| 17 | Children who visit may absorb a magical sense of bygone years In a home which is furnished and run in the style of fifty years ago . |
| 18 | The heading must be in a fixed position and fitted to a thin batten which is bent and fixed to the ceiling of the curve . |
| 19 | Whatever procedure is followed must ensure that : ( 1 ) the expert has the basic information about the issue he is to decide and who he is to decide it between ; ( 2 ) the expert has a copy of the contract with the expert clause . |
| 20 | Designing the placement programme is a question of understanding the process which is operating and the effect this is having as the experience proceeds . |
| 21 | Most builders use a simple cost system for job costing ( specific order costing ) and the stores department may well just be treated as another job or cost centre with monthly costing which is balanced and closed on an annual basis . |
| 22 | Britain 's future must be safeguarded by active membership of a European Community which is united and democratic and in which decisions are taken as close to the people as possible . |
| 23 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 24 | Generally thirstless except in the fever which is prolonged and with nausea . |
| 25 | The actress lives with her mother , a psychotherapist , and her father , a retired banker who is paralysed and partially blind . |
| 26 | Do are you aware of the difference between erm an advisor who is tied and one who is perfectly free . |
| 27 | This results in a cake-like compound which is dried and ground to a fine powder ready for distribution to ready-mix concrete plants . ’ |
| 28 | economic about Taiwan and there 's a great deal of irony in this because you know here you are in the nineteen fifties in China rich peasant economy which is accepting and preserving inequalities |
| 29 | Even a claim which is litigated and defended successfully in court usually involves unimaginable loss of time , aggravation and payment of high legal costs ( which are rarely recovered in full from the unsuccessful claimant ) . |
| 30 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |