Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [indef pn] is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ What I want is a country of real opportunity where everyone is free to choose . |
| 2 | This official document assists the authorities in keeping a check on population movements since no-one is supposed to alter their place of residence without permission . |
| 3 | Plutonium and enriched weapons-grade uranium aside ( and admittedly it is a big aside ) , nuclear power in its advanced manifestations is as close to the pure spirit of sustainable development as anyone is likely to get , short of covering the landscape with batteries of windmills . |
| 4 | Flicking through your magazine as one is apt to do , I was rather startled by ‘ Tennis World reader , Glamorgan ’ who inferred in his letter published in your June edition that you were biased . |
| 5 | This is meaning in as rich an intentional sense as one is likely to get — far more than the mere instilling of ( first-order ) knowledge with which McDowell deals . |