Example sentences of "[noun] is [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Cullen , where they got a fresh chaise ‘ and very good horses ’ , to Elgin is a distance of about twenty-five miles , through whiskified Speyside . |
| 2 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 3 | The gall bladder is the last place to produce bile that is likely to nucleate in the patients with cholesterol gall stones . |
| 4 | In a Napoleon he can not discover anybody to be ; a Napoleon is a projected , dreamed-up , aimed-at type , a ‘ generalhuman ’ . |
| 5 | A Napoleon is a non-person , a ‘ generalhuman ’ ; and although the word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment itself , the notebooks make the point that one ca n't just live ‘ the general life of humanity ’ . |
| 6 | Napoleon himself had plenty to do , but a Napoleon is a member of a conceptual class of people who are like each other ; and likeness , the ‘ unseemly likeness ’ of The Double , is fraught throughout Dostoevsky . |
| 7 | The mean is an unstable statistic influenced by a small proportion of the population with large numbers of partners ; sampling strategies may under-represent minorities with multiple partners ( for example , prostitutes ) ; and sexual partnerships occur outside the sampled population through migration and travel . |
| 8 | The Golden Mean is the division of a line such that the smaller part is the same proportion of the larger part that the larger part is of the whole . |
| 9 | A spinning wheel is a working tool so repairs are quite acceptable . |
| 10 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 11 | The Development Wheel is a circular chart divided into three sections ; personal well-being , communal well-being and material well-being . |
| 12 | ( The same threespoked wheel is the heraldic emblem of the Isle of Man . ) |
| 13 | The steering wheel is the size of a soup dish . |
| 14 | The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one . |
| 15 | The heart of Crabbe 's presentation of The Borough is the fisherman Peter Grimes , attaining in the midst of Crabbe 's Parliamentary Blue Book couplets , a strangely " poete maudit " character . |
| 16 | Helios is the mid-price label published by Hyperion . |
| 17 | A bad Goshiki is a hotchpotch fish , whose colours look as though they have been mixed by a five-year-old and applied with a wet rag . |
| 18 | Punning is the occult logic of language best left aside by those concerned to grasp its evolution . |
| 19 | The Three Musketeers is the best book I 've ever read … ‘ |
| 20 | The theme of The Prelude is the growth of the individual mind under the guidance of the Mind of external Nature . |
| 21 | The Soldier in Book iv of The Prelude is an example of Wordsworth performing a Good Samaritan act ; but what impressed Wordsworth and remains with us is the description of the Soldier 's appearance : |
| 22 | Another day of devotions at the bingo hall are ended and with a suitable benediction in their ears , the players skail into the night air — or even afternoon sunshine , for this religion is no once-a-week affair , but the game the whole family can play all day long , all the week round . |
| 23 | 49% believe the increase in divorce is significant but only 22% of you believe the decline in religion is a significant factor . |
| 24 | It would have appeared a politically harmless work , if it had not contained a violent attack in the Preface on ‘ the impertinent and ignorant preachers ’ appointed by the Government , ‘ who think all religion is a sermon and all sermons ought to be libels against truth and old Governors , and expound chapters that the meaning may never be understood ’ . |
| 25 | It could hold , as deism did , to belief in God ; it could believe that religion is a ‘ natural ’ and proper element in human life , and that spiritual and moral truths are preserved in the Bible and in Christian teaching . |
| 26 | It is sometimes argued that a science of religion is a contradiction in terms . |
| 27 | Religion is a vital and enduring part of man 's life and experience in Egypt , the breath of life itself . |
| 28 | The point is that religion and ethnicity are not identical ; but religion is a culturally accepted marker of ethnicity , and the terms ‘ Protestant ’ and ‘ Catholic ’ in Northern Ireland refer to ethnicity rather than religion . |
| 29 | Religion is a fundamental source of another quality compassion . |
| 30 | Religion is a kids ’ party for adults . ’ |