Example sentences of "is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steering can be a little heavy and gearchange is sloppy |
| 2 | Clift said , ‘ Marlon is sloppy — he 's using about one-tenth of his talent . ’ |
| 3 | The fit in the drawing is sloppy . |
| 4 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes for an emergency patient to be admitted , but Union officials say security is sloppy . |
| 5 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 6 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 7 | The prison 's capacity , or certified normal accommodation ( CNA ) , is 550 . |
| 8 | The AP1-88 is 23–55 m long and weighs 36–3 tonnes when fully loaded . |
| 9 | All Pahdra and I require is unquestioning encouragement and support . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is not clear why this is a reproach to Levi , whose story concerns a man whose piety is idiosyncratic , especially severe . |
| 12 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |
| 13 | The band 's approach to live work is idiosyncratic . |
| 14 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 15 | Like all great writers , but even more than most , Dickens 's vision is idiosyncratic . |
| 16 | It should be emphasised , however , that each person 's recovery is idiosyncratic to him or her . |
| 17 | I stress this in order to underline that the view which I express is idiosyncratic , prejudiced and probably heretical . |
| 18 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 19 | The writing is idiosyncratic ( which means I have n't yet deciphered it ) but fascinating . |
| 20 | The adoption of a particular voice setting often acts as an individuating marker , when its use is idiosyncratic to a particular speaker . |
| 21 | The Answering Machine is a fully featured jobbie , but requires that the computers system unit at least is switched on , and that Windows and the Teleputer software is running/minimised . |
| 22 | Make sure that the ventilation pipe is unobstructed , and that water can not run down the pipe into the house . |
| 23 | If Tekek seemed sleepy , Juara is comatose . |
| 24 | He is barely alive ; his breathing is very slow and shallow , and he is comatose . |
| 25 | Unemployment in the South-East is 10.1 per cent compared with 9.7 per cent in Scotland . |
| 26 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
| 27 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ is adolescent band slang . |
| 28 | The language of urban people , to the extent that it is ‘ modified ’ , is modified vernacular : it can not be adequately explained in terms of modifications to the ‘ standard ’ ( in which many speakers show no interest at all ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 " . |