Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of trends in tobacco smoking ( and by implication of trends in the diseases to which it contributes ) the sum of Australian experience supports the view that centrally coordinated action that is adequately funded and deliberately built on broad based support can speed the fall in smoking prevalence . |
| 2 | Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action . |
| 3 | It will be recalled that temperature and cortisol show a daily rhythm that is much influenced by the body clock and this suggests , but does not prove , that humans and other primates are very similar with regard to the site of the body clock . |
| 4 | I got a Christmas card that 's not opened ! |
| 5 | I 'm a sinner , I 'm a winner , I 'm a one-man government I 'm the will of the people , I 'm the force that 's never spent |
| 6 | Does he agree that those peaceful citizens have their rights too , particularly against the disturbance , disorder and disruption that is often brought by those people ? |
| 7 | ‘ Even as angels go , these seem a little unconvincing , airborne cherubs which seem like a bad special effect or a funerary monument that 's suddenly taken flight ’ . |
| 8 | Some people leave effects of the dead person around — the hat that still hangs in the hall , the bedroom that is not touched , the area of the house that becomes a kind of ‘ shrine ’ to the memory of the person who is dead . |
| 9 | The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host . |
| 10 | I ca n't see that that could of been Friday 's episode that 's still effecting you today . |
| 11 | In discussing the help that reading can provide in exploring and explaining emotional lives , one comes upon a clue to the disappointment that is sometimes felt with writers as diverse as Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton . |
| 12 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 13 | The word is used to define an order or programme that is not constructed symmetrically . |
| 14 | In Britain , unlike many parliamentary democracies in the world , we have an opposition that is actually paid to oppose the government of the day I think . |
| 15 | Unlike methanogenesis , however , the product is not a harmless gut , but is highly toxic hydrogen sulphide , an agent that is potentially damaging to the colonic epithelium . |
| 16 | The fear that is often expressed is that these new forms of cultivation will result in soil conditions analogous to the Oklahoma ‘ Dust Bowl ’ of the 1930s . |
| 17 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 18 | Erm there 's also a view been expressed that well if you 're going to have it it may need some more guidance than is presently written into it . |
| 19 | When an echo from a distant object finally arrives back at the bat , it will be an " older " echo than an echo that is simultaneously arriving back from a near object . |
| 20 | Think of all the hands-on psychical research that is just coming at you free of charge . |
| 21 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 22 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 23 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
| 24 | One study that is often quoted by ‘ opponents ’ of food intolerance was carried out by Dr David Pearson of Manchester University and Dr Keith Rix of Leeds University . |
| 25 | It turns out that if you 're gon na give a talk or something and it 's a talk that 's well rehearsed and well known , you give it better when there 's a lot of people in a passive audience than when there 's one or two . |
| 26 | Since it is the consistent policy of successive UK governments to support ICAO , and ICAO has advocated a particular way in which aircraft accident reports should be written , it seems obvious that the appropriate regulations should require commissioners of public inquiries to follow the practice that is universally acknowledged as sound and practical . |
| 27 | Glaxo is refusing to comment on Mr Nathan 's departure , but it is thought he erred by drawing attention to a common practice that is seldom discussed . |
| 28 | There are 8 ‘ corner ’ pieces , 12 ‘ edge ’ pieces , 6 ‘ centre ’ pieces ( which are the centres of the cube faces and might be called ‘ face ’ pieces ) and a central piece that is never seen . |
| 29 | What does it take to build a car that is both relaxing to drive , yet can make the world fly by ? |
| 30 | Only Mercedes-Benz could charge £50,800 for a car that is comprehensively outperformed by a Vauxhall Calibra 2.0i 16v , costing £33,550 less , and still call it a sports car . |