Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 In Gerard 's Herball of 1633 it is described : ‘ The Floure of Bristowe or None-such … was called Lychnis , that is a Torch or such-like light , cleere , bright and light-giving . ’
2 In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring .
3 ( c ) Court order and completion of abstract It is recommended that a copy of the original court order marked as examined against the original be lodged with the title documents .
4 The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed .
5 The reasons for this neglect are many and complex , in the case of social anthropology in particular it is rooted deep in the history of the discipline .
6 The regulations have one very unusual effect in that it is permissible to make a reproduction of a topography for the purpose of analyzing or evaluating that topography or the concepts , processes , systems or techniques embodied in it by section 226(1A) of the 1988 Act .
7 The proposals , in force from April 1991 , contained in this document are consistent with the ideology of the administration in that it is an attempt to apply market principles to the institution which is the cornerstone of the British welfare state .
8 His theory connects with Mannheim 's ‘ particular ’ conception of ideology rather than his ‘ total ’ conception in that it is concerned with psychological processes .
9 A speed-table differs from a speed hump in that it is designed as a ramp up to a raised plateau with a descending ramp on the other side .
10 It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned .
11 rough , she 's a bit of rough she is , she is , she is not high class is she ?
12 As the subject of Harry Bates 's statue of 1890 she is transformed and re-made by Rose Garrard , as the generative point of her reworking of the myth of the first woman in the videos Tumbled Frame(1984) and Pandora the Bringer of Gifts ( 1982 ) .
13 In the case of 1-2-3 it is a tiny bit more difficult but only because there is no 1-2-3 equivalent of All .
14 In the case of 1-2-3 it is : @FV ( payments , interest , term )
15 ‘ To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one 's place within it , and to re-assemble it as seen from his .
16 Under the Protection of Children ( Tobacco ) Act of 1986 it is illegal to sell any tobacco product to anyone below the age of 16 .
17 In particular , if one compares the provisions relating to recovery of expenses in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 with those in Schedule 10 to the Act of 1985 it is clear that the whole scheme has been rewritten and amended in accordance with recommendations in the Law Commission Report on the Consolidation of the Housing Acts ( 1985 ) ( Law Com .
18 The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that .
19 You see , when you are working in plan like this it is difficult to bear in mind that machine table heights can work in your favour and they can also work against you .
20 It has another practical benefit in that it is easy to keep clean and to wash .
21 Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease .
22 The feedback model ( i.e. TRACE II ) is closer to the weak interaction type in that it is primarily data driven , rather than hypothesis driven , but it does allow some top-down filling in of gaps , and some correction of errors in the input data .
23 Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament .
24 In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’
25 In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’
26 Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend .
27 I if that is understood and that is accepted that would meet Mr 's point in that it is , it is in fact in order and , and is not interfering with another panel 's responsibilities .
28 Given the environmental , economic and social constraints experienced by these young people in the community at large it is easy to understand why .
29 On top of this it is known that any one mould would only be in use between seven and fifteen years .
30 A significant proportion of Playfair 's executed work must therefore be regarded as not fully mature , but in spite of this he is a figure of considerable interest as a pioneering exponent of the spare detail and basic geometrical forms of advanced neo-classicism .
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