Example sentences of "[is] [verb] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique used is much the same as that used in hospitals to find fractures in bones ; where the metal is broken the film is blackened by the X-rays which pass unhindered through the break ; where the metal is densest , more of the X-rays are stopped and the film remains pale . |
| 2 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 3 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 4 | That if she 's I bet she 's eat the chop 's in her mouth . |
| 5 | Once that is completed the Captain is joined by Corporal L for a planning conference on a forthcoming job of clearing some derelict houses of a suspect IED . |
| 6 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 7 | That there was no canopy may be part of why I say that if it 's raining the balcony is wet , but it is not part of what I say . |
| 8 | It 's claimed the by-pass is part of a major east west link from the M 40 in Oxfordshire to the Haven ports . |
| 9 | But when the third group , Class C , is added the situation is destabilised and it becomes inherently dramatic . |
| 10 | When the tube is squeezed the gel is forced through tiny holes , into the paste . |
| 11 | Whatever control method is chosen it must be rigorously adhered to and where specialised equipment is installed the design is all important , as is the correct operation and regular maintenance of such equipment in order to minimise any breakdown and subsequent odour problem . |
| 12 | For example in the case of deep bed undergravel filters that have been running for years , a gravel cleaner is attached to the intake of the power filter and as the gravel is hoovered the mulm is trapped in the filter and clean water returned to the tank . |
| 13 | A trial run approach has been suggested particularly where it is suspected the person is hard of hearing ( Deeping , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ 'T IS said the prince is a handsome boy , ’ she said instead . |
| 15 | said ‘ I am not at present persuaded , however , that the condition in section 14(2) is excluded if at the time the contract is made the buyer is reasonably of the opinion that the defect can be , and will be , rectified at no cost to himself . ’ |
| 16 | Until a final decision is made the company is reluctant to talk to the press . |
| 17 | It is open to various people , as set out in section 34 , to make applications for contact and the local authority , under section 34(4) , can apply for authority to refuse contact , but unless such an application is made the court is not involved . |
| 18 | Sch 2 , para 2(2) of the EP(C)A provides that if no such offer is made the employee is to be regarded as automatically unfairly dismissed . |
| 19 | For a motor with p rotor teeth and a peak static torque Tpk at a rotor displacement a from the step position , the torque developed by the motor is approximately : When a load torque is applied the rotor is displaced from the demanded position by the angle θ e , at which the load and motor torques are equal : Therefore the static position error can be reduced by increasing the peak static torque , either by choosing another motor or by using a different excitation scheme , as discussed in the next section . |
| 20 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 21 | Another way in which Japan is promoting the soyabean is through tackling the crop 's major enemy , soyabean cyst nematoda . |
| 22 | She 's says the horse is like a big brother and she 's going with a chance . |
| 23 | So what we 're trying to do is ensure the service is delivered as the purchasing agencies require . |
| 24 | It 's thought the driver was a girl just twelve years old . |
| 25 | It 's thought the man was involved in a fight in the hall of his house . |
| 26 | It 's thought the find is evidence of the first Viking wreck to be found off the British coast . |
| 27 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 28 | It 's thought the dog was a stray , which originally boarded the ship in Japan . |
| 29 | It 's thought the attacker is white , five feet 8 , and slim with a London accent . |
| 30 | It 's thought the fire was started by someone trying to light a fire in a disused chimney . |