Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 2 | The Universal card is such a threat to banks because , unlike Sears ' six-year-old Discover card , it has been linked to the Visa and MasterCard networks from the outset . |
| 3 | ‘ What good is half a house in the middle of Scotland to someone who spends all her time down in London ? ’ |
| 4 | If the search is successful a list of one or more study titles may be viewed at the end of the search . |
| 5 | The company car is such a feature of modern British business that in teaching the noble art of firing people , the London Business School reminds trainee firers to demand the car keys from a dismissed employee promptly — not because these are today 's equivalent of Dreyfus 's epaulettes ( which they are ) , but because the car , stuck immovably in the company car-park , may depress other executives . |
| 6 | The hunched figure is such a picture of hopelessness that the heart sinks . |
| 7 | And , under the hedge , a dunnock : ‘ The tame hedge-sparrow in its russet dress/ is half a robin for its gentle ways . ’ |
| 8 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 9 | It is elegantly Neo-Classical , although few other houses of the style have such enormous loggias , even though the loggia is such a feature of Italian architecture . |
| 10 | Although the local health watchdog , the community health council is welcoming a reduction in bureaucracy , it does have it 's reservations about merging the health authorities . |
| 11 | His proposal was such a departure from traditional Antarctic programmes that three years elapsed before support was provided and field preparations completed . |
| 12 | The side window was open a couple of inches , and Lucy closed it . |
| 13 | The real reason the normally rabid and vociferous DQ was such a wimp with Phil and Luke Gangsta has little to do with inverse racism . |
| 14 | This typically British feast is okay a couple of times a week , but use your imagination when planning main meals . |
| 15 | Morris is due a benefit before too long and , despite fears in some Celtic quarters , I can not see him leaving Glamorgan . |
| 16 | Sound is all a matter of vibration transmitted through the air from some object . |
| 17 | I think the Glasgow business is all a bit of hype . |
| 18 | If Donovan is correct a bite during love-making would appear to be actual bodily harm . |
| 19 | When the investigation is complete a copy of the report will be sent to Keith Mitchell , Durham 's director of education . |
| 20 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 21 | Otherwise most of our efforts are all a waste of time and energy . |
| 22 | In addition since the rats on the low fibre diet were heavier at the end of the study , although food intake measurements at 12 weeks showed no difference between the two groups , it is possible that the differences in morbidity were due a variation in calorie intake since caloric restriction is known to prolong life in rodents . |
| 23 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 24 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 25 | And they 're and they 're , we 've got Oak , big Oak trees that have started to get quite big now as they will and the rest is all a mixture of Horse , Horse Chestnut and Sycamore and couple of other like things in there . |
| 26 | Monotheism is first a critique of nature religion , but then of tribalism — that is , of the notion that the function of religion is to ensure the coherence , survival , and prosperity of the tribe . |
| 27 | In Section 2.4 , you are going to tell LIFESPAN where its Process and Working Directories are , and the information fields for device name and directory names are all a maximum of 20 characters , including square brackets and colons . |
| 28 | Dallams were ten a penny in the backstreets of Frizingley . |
| 29 | Over at Lord North Street in Miles 's flat a council of war of the Old Guard met . |
| 30 | Your father was such a disappointment to her , in so many ways . |