Example sentences of "this [noun] is [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They deposit scent from the tip of their abdomen along the route from the food to the nest , and this trail is followed and added to by other ants as they return with food . |
| 2 | If collective bargaining of this kind is to continue and improve for the benefit of both , it is essential that employees ' organisation should be fully representative . |
| 3 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 4 | At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context . |
| 5 | Made from bamboo poles , which are exceptionally strong , the framework of this suite is bleached and then whitewashed for a unique finish . |
| 6 | In the student-centred approach all this variety is used and incorporated into the learning process . |
| 7 | In proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Children Act this privilege is waived and no person is excused from giving evidence or answering a question put to him in the course of his evidence on the ground that it will incriminate him or his spouse ( s98(1) ) . |
| 8 | A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective . |
| 9 | Anger is common reaction , and one way to help overcome this distress is to go and discuss what happened with your vet . |
| 10 | The aim of this research is to try and fill the gap . |
| 11 | The aim of this research is to develop and test principles for the design of mathematics teaching which make use of the results of recent research into pupils ' understanding . |
| 12 | The aim of this chapter is to present and evaluate Oliver Williamson 's theory of the firm . |
| 13 | The purpose of this chapter is to try and clarify these issues by asking : ( a ) what is quality in health care ? ( b ) whose quality are we talking about ? ( c ) how can quality be turned into a reality in the new NHS ? |
| 14 | The risk of local recurrence in this setting is reduced and a randomised MRC trial looking at survival is presently in progress . |
| 15 | In the most colonial species this chase is omitted and all courtship occurs at the nest . |
| 16 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 17 | The complete team for this exercise is assembled and briefed on the problem by the co-ordinator . |
| 18 | The complete team for this exercise is assembled and briefed on the problem by the co-ordinator . |
| 19 | We have a moral duty to demand that this savagery is outlawed and until we succeed we are all guilty of allowing it . |
| 20 | If error reporting has not been disabled , this error is reported and BBCBASIC(Z80) returns to the direct mode in the normal way . |
| 21 | Yet this difference is reinforced and indeed exacerbated by the women 's experience of physics at university . |
| 22 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 23 | If this process is arrested and teaching reduced to the manipulation of a set of techniques , or conformity to a fixed method , then pedagogy as such ceases to exist . |
| 24 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 25 | The door to this room is closed and locked , and the only way to get in is by getting the key from the ‘ attic ’ above Drachenfels ' master bedroom ( location 53 ) . |
| 26 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 27 | As this self is debated and discussed , the individualist sometimes seems to be demanding that a ceteris paribus clause should be included in all explanations of social phenomena — a murmured oath of loyalty to the freedom of the will along the lines of ‘ … and the individuals involved could have done otherwise ’ . |
| 28 | In winter this water is chilled and frozen ; ice formation releases cold brine which sinks and mixes with underlying water to form a distinctive water mass of high density and high salinity , called antarctic bottom water . |
| 29 | Occasionally , however , this current is displaced and a warm southward-flowing current prevails for short periods . |
| 30 | Now , it would appear from this article , that this ideal is shattered and a two-tiered Europe is on the cards . |