Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest building completed is a drive-in McDonald 's . |
| 2 | What I find a bit puzzling is that , as far as I can see , automatic inspection of passports will eliminate the keen-eyed , guilt-inducing gaze from the man behind the desk who presumably , is looking for doctored documents , suspicious photographs and forged visas and stamps . |
| 3 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 4 | The decision to retire is never an easy one for architects . |
| 5 | ‘ Their decision to retire is selflessly motivated by the recognition that we are now entering a new and election-oriented phase in the political process , ’ Mr de Klerk said . |
| 6 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 7 | The most probable effect of exposure to light is a change of colour , but this is not necessarily the only or even the most important effect . |
| 8 | Records will be read into primary storage , their keys will be transformed by the algorithm being used , and if the address the algorithm produces is free they will be stored in that address on the direct access device . |
| 9 | The single most difficult skill for the calligrapher to acquire is consistently good letterform in a rhythmic , written hand . |
| 10 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 11 | The income received is either spent on consumer goods , or withdrawn in the form of savings and taxes ( that is , Y = C + S + T ) . |
| 12 | The decision impugned is a decision by the board of Lautro on 30 October 1990 to exercise its intervention powers so as to prohibit Norwich Union Life Insurance Society ( ‘ Norwich ’ ) and three associated companies from accepting any new investment business from Winchester or from soliciting investment business from the public through Winchester or any of its representatives . |
| 13 | The decision of an inferior tribunal with a limited jurisdiction and a limited function to perform is capable of creating an estoppel for all purposes , subject to the principles that it can not conclusively determine the limits of its own jurisdiction and that a public official can not be debarred from performing his statutory duty . |
| 14 | If each novel a writer produces is meant to indicate the direction in which he or she is progressing , it does not provide the clear signpost that The Child In Time did . |
| 15 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 16 | referring to adjudication those cases where a client 's entitlement to benefit is in doubt ; |
| 17 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 18 | Selection between factory and user presets is via the User/Preset button which illuminates the attendant LED . |
| 19 | The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points . |
| 20 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 21 | Common sense will have to prevail as to whether the noise emitted is sufficient or not . |
| 22 | The last thing your sister wants is an unwilling husband . ’ |
| 23 | The current in the primary winding is induced by the rotating magnet . |
| 24 | Because a conventional laser relies on transitions between quantum states of an atom or molecule , the wavelength emitted is determined by the energy difference between these states . |
| 25 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 26 | The only responsibility the writer has is to get his words right and that takes care of everything else that the novel , or short story is capable of . |
| 27 | There 's also another thing that a golf course has is a where you want a distance marker . |
| 28 | The base cost is usually the original cost , but in certain circumstances the market value at 6 April 1965 or 31 March 1982 can be used instead . |
| 29 | Building surveying is by definition a very technical skill . |
| 30 | The best way to prevent such damage occurring is to float a piece of wood or a child 's rubber ball on the water , so that the ice exerts pressure against an object capable of expanding and contracting . |