Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane .
2 With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer .
3 ‘ One reason is that linen is an ecologically sound product and nothing is wasted from the plant .
4 request or a direct request that something is changed , then it
5 Did they complain about the Fujitsu factory , which takes some beating when one is considering eyesores ?
6 I was worried about that and er I think that 's because it 's a German system and everyone is assumed to be over six feet anyway or six feet wide or something .
7 On April 3 the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) led by Hocine Aït Ahmed announced that it would boycott the June elections , which it described as " a real farce because everything is done in accordance with FLN interests " .
8 We are all aware of the manipulating that is occuring in the creation of the new ‘ Greedy League ’ , but there is no visible sign that anybody is looking beyond the ‘ big boys ’ .
9 Too much assimilation and one is becalmed in the doldrums and no progress is possible at all .
10 The Minister used the word " can not " , but there is no such thing when one is dealing with Her Majesty 's Government or Parliament .
11 The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it .
12 We have a get rich quick philosophy where everything is geared to maximum profits .
13 One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something .
14 It is impossible to have a proper exchange of views of the kind which is essential for the true functioning of a parliamentary democracy if everybody is wearing headphones .
15 Not as bad as some vintage types admittedly , but , even so , ‘ weaving ’ the nose is definitely a Good Idea if one is to avoid committing the unpardonable offence of Bumping Into Something .
16 This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern .
17 And we 'll give them a fork and knife and I wo n't go into it in great detail but everything is going to be the six courses will be entirely accurately served on bread plates over on pewter trenchers .
18 In other words , they actually arrange a medical assessment before someone is admitted and they then try to continue the kind of care that that has initiated .
19 Well it 's where we 're called out , probably with the initial belief that somebody is trapped , and the person 's either released before we arrive there , or , you know ,
20 Its slave units can answer back ; they allow a shop of office manager to check at one look that everything is switched on before leaving at night .
21 Young adults ( aged 16–29 ) amount to only 5 per cent of the disabled population if everyone is included , a little more than that among the most severely impaired .
22 A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse .
23 The hon. Member for West Bromwich , East made the simple proposal that it should be a criminal offence to take any alcohol if one is driving a train .
24 Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way .
25 Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently .
26 " Stop talking " can be seen as plain common sense if everyone is talking at once , but if it comes from an over-talkative mother with a shy child it can have serious consequences on the child 's character .
27 For example , if you 're an ardent feminist and someone is telling sexist jokes , you wo n't find them funny .
28 Somewhere the story has lost its soul in the translation to the big screen and one is left with the fairly black and white conclusion that white Afrikaners in wartime South Africa hated everyone but their own .
29 The point is that almost any configuration of events with which an individual is likely to be associated in public carries the risk of a worst possible meaning which might reflect unfavourably upon him , and it is a sign of intact mental functioning that one recognises this risk , without of course being incapacitated by the thought , and at the same time that one is equipped to perform repair work if and when infractions occur .
30 Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties .
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