Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this he is considered by his admirers ‘ one of the master-minds of our country ’ . |
| 2 | In fact I did these in the same way as the neckband , doing the button band first ; after that it is to mark where the buttonholes are to go , it 's just a matter of arithmetic since the needles are numbered already . |
| 3 | After all she is clutching her bag like a student would her books . |
| 4 | Yet despite this he is created in a relationship of accountability to God and the sphere of his accountability includes the economic . |
| 5 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 6 | On top of this it is known that any one mould would only be in use between seven and fifteen years . |
| 7 | In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring . |
| 8 | If a company fails to meet one of these it is excluded from the portfolio . |
| 9 | ( c ) Court order and completion of abstract It is recommended that a copy of the original court order marked as examined against the original be lodged with the title documents . |
| 10 | In Gerard 's Herball of 1633 it is described : ‘ The Floure of Bristowe or None-such … was called Lychnis , that is a Torch or such-like light , cleere , bright and light-giving . ’ |
| 11 | In the new year 's gift list of 1563 she is described as ‘ gentlewoman ’ and by her son , in 1595 , as ‘ sworne as one of the privye chamber to the Quenes Majestie ’ . |
| 12 | As the subject of Harry Bates 's statue of 1890 she is transformed and re-made by Rose Garrard , as the generative point of her reworking of the myth of the first woman in the videos Tumbled Frame(1984) and Pandora the Bringer of Gifts ( 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) . |
| 14 | Above all it is aimed at the country 's railways , where disorganisation and disruption and not only in politically-inflamed Soviet Transcaucasia have caused dangerous shortfalls of coal and oil stocks at power stations , and of other raw materials at factories across the country . |
| 15 | But remember that above all it is going to be a place where people are meant to enjoy their food . |
| 16 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 17 | There is some common ground in that it is assumed to imply certain substantive and procedural rights , government must be subject to the law , and the judiciary must be independent . |
| 18 | The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed . |
| 19 | The Northern Dairy Shorthorn is officially a rare breed in Britain , though it is sometimes included under the Dairy Shorthorn umbrella in that it is registered in the Coates herdbook , albeit with a separate code to identify the bloodlines . |
| 20 | It differs substantially from a conventional yoghurt in that it is made only from organic milk using traditional methods which do n't adulterate the ‘ whole ’ product . |
| 21 | SCP is similar to bankers ' acceptances in that it is evidenced by a formal document and issued at a discount which is paid upfront . |
| 22 | A speed-table differs from a speed hump in that it is designed as a ramp up to a raised plateau with a descending ramp on the other side . |
| 23 | There may well be an element of compulsion involved in civil disobedience , but it differs from coercion in that it is aimed at securing mutual co-operation and understanding in accordance with a dialectical quest for truth . |
| 24 | It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked . |
| 25 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 26 | In 1275 he is said to have been a serious rival to the saintly Thomas de Cantelupe [ q.v. ] for the see of Hereford . |
| 27 | In 1885 it is recorded that transparent thin sections of rocks were sent to London for microscopic investigation and 3 years later sections of English and Irish rocks were being made in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Thus in one field the U- figure may be given a value of 90 per cent as take up is known to be very strong , while in another it is given a value of 25 per cent since only 1 in 4 of such applicants is thought likely to accept . |
| 29 | Used in one context it is an essential skill for handling difficult situations , in another it is used as an equivalent for laziness . |
| 30 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |