Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace .
2 The gall bladder is the last place to produce bile that is likely to nucleate in the patients with cholesterol gall stones .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 A spinning wheel is a working tool so repairs are quite acceptable .
6 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 .
7 The Development Wheel is a circular chart divided into three sections ; personal well-being , communal well-being and material well-being .
8 ( The same threespoked wheel is the heraldic emblem of the Isle of Man . )
9 The steering wheel is the size of a soup dish .
10 The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The theme of The Prelude is the growth of the individual mind under the guidance of the Mind of external Nature .
14 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 :
15 Alternative medicine 's okay , but the old religion 's a bit sort of pushing it .
16 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 .
17 49% believe the increase in divorce is significant but only 22% of you believe the decline in religion is a significant factor .
18 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 ’ .
19 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 .
20 It is sometimes argued that a science of religion is a contradiction in terms .
21 Religion is a vital and enduring part of man 's life and experience in Egypt , the breath of life itself .
22 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 .
23 Religion is a fundamental source of another quality compassion .
24 Religion is a kids ’ party for adults . ’
25 The preoccupation with the establishment and maintenance of civilisation and true religion is a central feature of Spenser 's poem as it is with his political tract .
26 There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends .
27 Well , what Freud does in this book , is to effectively say , religion is a transference phenomenon .
28 He explains the appeal of religion in general to people , by saying religion is a transference .
29 So Freud is not saying religion is a delusion or an error , he 's saying it 's an illusion , and it 's an illusion because it 's a factual mistake maintained by wish fulfilment .
30 How is order possible , and answered it in part , by saying , well , religion is a civilizing order creating force .
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