Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nine-race card at Haydock is strong on quantity but lacks runners of the class of Old Vic , the winner of the Whitebeam Maiden Stakes by six lengths last year who went on to take this year 's Irish Derby and its French equivalent . |
| 2 | Deeper hard pans require more drastic operations such as double digging ; in established gardens you may prefer to delay the upheaval until each area affected is due for renewal and replanting . |
| 3 | The simplest and earliest of these is due to Alfrey and consists of taking the spectral function as the negative slope of the relaxation curve in a static ( stress relaxation or creep ) experiment ( Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 4 | The valley is rich in tradition and has many rural market towns like Llanybydder , world famous for its horse sales and bustling Newcastle Emlyn with its Castle , sports facilities and steam railway . |
| 5 | Like its English cognate , imagination , however , it is rich in connotations and operates differently in the different conceptual frameworks of the different authors who use it ( authors as varied as Sartre , Bachelard , Barthes , Lacan , Castoriadis , Althusser ) . |
| 6 | To an English ear unaccustomed to such things , the Cannonading of a Real Battle is Awful beyond description and to have one 's friends walk out of one 's Drawing room into Action … is a sensation beyond description . |
| 7 | Other ideas stemmed from this original one and there have been suggestions that the reliquary contains other combinations of materials , some with thixotropic properties , including inorganic pigments in castor oil , real blood in a thixotropic honey , or a mixture of spermaceti , ether and red dye which is solid at 10°C but melts with body heat and froths due to the ether , a characteristic noted in the Naples liquefaction . |
| 8 | The high background on the long TOF side of the peaks is attributable to ions that have lost energy because of multiple collisions and penetration . |
| 9 | He does n't like girls , but is fond of reading and has to be summoned by relays of hand-bells from his chief joy , the herb-garden . ’ |
| 10 | She is interested in soccer and admits to being a Liverpool fan . |
| 11 | The government 's anti-crisis programme , unveiled this week ( see page 93 ) , is brave in parts but fails to tackle the essential task of privatisation and can not work without the agreement of republican governments . |
| 12 | This a type of algae which is high in protein and enhances the fish 's colour . |
| 13 | Internationally patented , Brewking is free of chemicals and sold widely in Europe , particularly in Germany where the nation 's drinkers wo n't drink anything but the purest beer . |
| 14 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 15 | This is patronising to men and idolises women . |
| 16 | While not specifically a market report , the study is commercial in outlook and includes a brief analysis of the scale of emerging markets and some forecasts about growth . |
| 17 | This method of measuring distances between points on the Earth 's surface is similar to VLBI but uses signals from Earth-orbiting satellites rather than extraterrestrial radio sources . |
| 18 | Groundnut or peanut oil is similar in character and uses to sunflower and grapeseed oils but is rather more expensive . |
| 19 | The full fee is payable in advance and includes the cost of refreshments , lunch and all seminar documentation . |
| 20 | The offer is subject to availability and closes November 12 , 1992 . |
| 21 | The offer is subject to availability and closes Nov 12 , 1992 . |
| 22 | However , as Child ( 1984 ) has pointed out , only the formal structure is subject to control and planning by management , thus it remains the fundamental concern of organisation theory . |
| 23 | It is typical of species that breed in short-lived pools , like the spadefoot toad . |
| 24 | The average factory worker is paid a wage which is unrelated to productivity or protects and which is squeezed out of management , often through painful industrial disputation . |
| 25 | These optical systems work well , though the accuracy falls off in poor light and when the subject is dark in tone or lacking in contrast . |
| 26 | It 's a smallish island , over two hours from Glasgow by air ; to travel or transport freight is intimidatingly expensive ; it is dark in winter and rains more than average . |
| 27 | Choosing a variable z that is distinct from y and does not appear in P , we use unc and unc to obtain unc We then apply the procedure for reducing sequential compositions of IF/ALT programs to reduce this to unc Observe that the only places y can appear in P' are on the left hand sides of the final multiple assignments , because the transformation from unc to P' replaces all others by z . |
| 28 | Ruether does not think in terms of a God who is transcendent above history and acts as an agent in history ; and this we might say lets her off the hook as far as the theodicy question is concerned . |
| 29 | It is native to China and has been cultivated successfully in a number of countries , including Iran , Turkey , India and the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | He is Australian by birth but moved to England in 1975 . |