Example sentences of "[art] [noun] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The opportunity is there but funeral directors considering going down this path should consult a VAT expert as every case needs to be considered on its merits , ’ says . |
| 2 | They suggest that relatively junior and often youthful staff do not shirk opportunities for taking responsibility when the opportunity is there and they , in fact , associate responsibility and autonomy with a high degree of job satisfaction . |
| 3 | Government may not succeed , but the opportunity is there and in order to understand that one has to understand the political culture and the extent to which it endures . |
| 4 | The opportunity is there if there is real goodwill . |
| 5 | The dike is there because in 1749 a particularly intrusive tidal wave swamped and destroyed some 200 houses in this otherwise favoured quarter of the town . |
| 6 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 7 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 8 | The first result follows from the fact that the investment in the TB is less than 100 . |
| 9 | UK deep mined coal , although the cheapest in the EEC is twice or three times as expensive as US deep mined coal or Australian mined coal , or South African coal ; |
| 10 | The Board is also considering reducing the required numbers for a governors meeting . |
| 11 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 12 | St Michael 's Mount , 2 miles away , can be reached by foot when the tide is out or by motor launch at high tide . |
| 13 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 14 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 15 | In other insects the clypeus is partially or completely divided by a transverse suture into two sclerites — the postclypeus and the anteclypeus ( Fig. 304 ) . |
| 16 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 17 | so that 's what the money is about and that 's where the money came from |
| 18 | When the bills come in you pay them on the budget account cheque book and do n't have to worry whether the money is there or not . |
| 19 | Er , and if your Lordship is happy to do that then I can open it now and indicate what the case is about and invite you to take some time . |
| 20 | Yet he finds the resistance is all but insurmountable on almost every level of the concert music business . |
| 21 | The title of Willie van Peer 's The taming of the text is intentionally and instructively ambiguous , since , as the editor himself points out in the introduction , " the text may be either the subject or the object of the " " taming " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 22 | The investigation asks specific questions on how the reader establishes who or what the text is about and what or how directives are issued by the text to enable this to happen . |
| 23 | The atom is there and when short-term oil surpluses vanish there will be pressure to build more nuclear power stations . |
| 24 | One is that ‘ the field is demonstrably and tightly coupled to national objectives that can be met only if US research performers are clear leaders ’ . |
| 25 | What has happened , therefore , is a transfer of production from the field to the factory floor , so that the field is now but one stage of the production-line process . |
| 26 | The interpretation of the output from the computer is basically as required by 1 but , almost always , new questions arise during the course of the study . |
| 27 | And the final point I wanted to make , although yes , we do welcome the special transitional grant second tranche of ten point eight million pounds , and it would be churlish not to , it is nevertheless a reduction on what the share of it was last year erm s of the national total so there is actually a reduction in the share that is getting this year , and alongside that , and of course hence the need for the recommendation in the budget , is that we 've actually lost very specifically one point eight five six million in the rollover grant from last year 's erm S T D tranche which we are specifically asking and very grateful to policy and resources for , hopefully , erm we 're asking and we 're hopeful they will underpin it and the Chairman is here and er er has nodded in that direction I think it 's fair to say . |
| 28 | This sub-committee had nothing else to do and the members carried out their task well : the delegates were all comfortable ! ( 6 ) Noting how the committee is proceeding is made more or less difficult according as the Chairman is less or more efficient . |
| 29 | In the current academic year , the full-year loan facility plus the grant is more than 30 per cent . |
| 30 | If the kitchen is nearly or directly below your bedroom , or if you live in a flat , you 'd be well advised to look for a quiet machine . |