Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 2 | He is chairman of Business in the Community both in Scotland and England , and is joint-chairman of the Per Cent Club , a group of companies that pledge a proportion of their income to the community . |
| 3 | It should be emphasised , however , that each person 's recovery is idiosyncratic to him or her . |
| 4 | The adoption of a particular voice setting often acts as an individuating marker , when its use is idiosyncratic to a particular speaker . |
| 5 | Trudgill and Labov obviously make certain assumptions here that feminists would criticise — for example that the category ‘ women ’ is coextensive with the category of housewives and mothers . |
| 6 | Thus given that the world is made up of a , l , c … n objects , " Men exist " , or more precisely " For some x , x is a man " , is coextensive with " Either a is a man or l is a man or c is a man or … n is a man " . |
| 7 | It is her father 's field , and it is pregnant with the harvest . |
| 8 | 1984 — DIANA is pregnant with Prince Harry , and during the summer before his birth the royal couple are said to enjoy some of the happiest times of their marriage . |
| 9 | Anne Davies who will present Good Morning and Sunday Best from the New Year , is expecting and co-presenter Eamonn Holmes has revealed wife Gabrielle is pregnant with their third child . |
| 10 | A WOMAN is pregnant with 12 embryos , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 11 | The use of the plural is pregnant with implications that evidence she alone has seen shows that among Sotheby 's staff not just Peter Wilson had a share in the treasure . |
| 12 | Does the Secretary of State not realise that that conspicuous failure , which is clear to the people of Northern Ireland , is undermining the confidence of the great majority , and that that is pregnant with considerable consequences ? |
| 13 | AND so Ed and Kath decide to keep mum about Mr Sloane 's murder of their father , preferring to share him , turn and turn about , six months at a time , Ed 's turn first since Kath is pregnant with Sloane 's child . |
| 14 | Oh which is the one that is pregnant with the terrible time ? |
| 15 | What indeed if she is pregnant at the altar ? |
| 16 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 17 | The court heard that the girl is pregnant by him and the baby is due to be born shortly after her 16th birthday in two months . |
| 18 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 19 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 20 | However , the role of Campylobacter pylori in ulcer formation is controversial with some clinicians claiming that its property of promoting excess gastrin and gastric acid secretion is a primary ulcer inducing factor , while others argue that it is a secondary factor . |
| 21 | Their suggestion that pulsed dye laser treatment should be offered as first line treatment for port wine stain malformations whenever possible , however , is controversial with respect to adult patients and ignores the complex nature of these lesions and their treatment with lasers . |
| 22 | The question of whether the non-Japanese should imitate the bow of the Japanese is controversial within Japan itself . |
| 23 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 24 | The decision is controversial in its reasoning , but it may be explained as an attempt by the judiciary to improve the workability of an ageing legal structure . |
| 25 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 26 | It is humiliating to be left and gratifying when the leaver shows signs of repentance and regret . |
| 27 | As an example , we may consider observations made in a channel of which the dimensions gradually change with distance downstream from 12·7 × 76 mm to 12·7 × 228 mm ; the consequent drop in speed reduces the Reynolds number ( based on the smaller dimension ) from a value at which the flow is turbulent to one at which reverse transition occurs . |
| 28 | The study of the buildings found on the farms tells us little at present that is definite about the rural economy . |
| 29 | PYY slows gastric emptying and mouth to caecum transit in humans , and there is considerable circumstantial evidence to suggest that enteroglucagon is trophic to the small intestinal musoca . |
| 30 | Transforming growth factor α is trophic to pancreatic cancer in vivo |