Example sentences of "[art] [adj] is [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The locomotive pool for the recently announced steam runs on the Cambrian is now known and consists of GWR 4-6-0 7819 ‘ Hinton Manor ’ , LMS 2-8-0 8233 Black 8 , BR 4-6-0 75069 Standard Class 4 and LNER 2-6-0 3442 ‘ The Great Marquess ’ .
2 While some behaviour , such as violence against the defenceless or excessive exploitation of the weak is generally regarded as unacceptable , there are many grey areas .
3 The saline is eventually filtered and then heated in shallow pans to complete the evaporation process before the salt is left to crystallise .
4 And the M-Five is also described as slow-moving .
5 To summarize , where know means " experience directly " , the knowing is frequently represented as accompanying the action experienced , instant by instant , throughout its duration — a coincidence in time which calls for the bare infinitive .
6 Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word
7 The cable television industry is said to be leery of handing over a standard to a third party such as Microsoft Corp , which has teamed up with Intel Corp to develop a set-top control box based on the 80386 and Windows ; the 80386 is also regarded as underpowered for graphics work .
8 Whilst the latter is often collected and structured for the purposes of analysis , the former are created in administrative processes where the concept of secondary use is usually absent .
9 Sonny 's guitar style — taking in everything from evocative Dobro through to sizzling lead , with a neat line in unlikely techniques like harmonics from nowhere and playing between the slide and the nut — has been perfectly showcased on his three solo albums to date , ‘ Blues Attack ’ , ‘ Way Down In Louisiana ’ and ‘ Outward Bound ’ ( the latter is highly recommended and is available in the UK on Zoo Records , through BMG ) .
10 After a while a kitten is placed in a small , secure cage and left on the far side of a room , while the phobic is gently reassured that it can not get near .
11 The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus .
12 They suggest that the behaviour of the young is often defined as threatening by adults in positions of power and that , encouraged by media campaigns , the state can often overreact to ‘ deviant ’ behaviour and basically make matters worse ( Frith 1984 ; Muncie 1984 ) .
13 A fifth is already planned and there are 22 Welsh primary schools .
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