Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the books are on a spinner the front book is mercilessly bent forward to see the books behind . |
| 2 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 3 | GIFT HORSE is without a doubt the finest Ocean 60 . |
| 4 | He thought he might because evening prayer on Good Friday was in a way a funeral service . |
| 5 | The second issue is in a sense the counterpart of the first , for it concerns the proper addressee in the state of destination . |
| 6 | When the celebrations were at a height the lady who had been rescued said she would present a piece of silver when she got back to England to the squadron and what would they like . |
| 7 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) payment of the plaint fee and fee for service by bailiff where appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 3 ) where the plaintiff is under a disability an undertaking by his next friend as to costs ( N235 ) or a sealed office copy order of the Court of Protection ( Ord 10 , r 2 ) ; ( 4 ) civil aid certificate , if any , and notice of issue of certificate for service on the defendant ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1980 , reg 50 ) . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) payment of the fee for issue and for service by bailiff where appropriate ( see Table of Fees ) ; ( 3 ) where the plaintiff is under a disability an undertaking by next friend as to costs ( N235 ) or a sealed office copy order of the Court of Protection ( Ord 10 , r 2 ) ; ( 4 ) civil legal aid certificate , if any , and notice of issue of certificate for service on the defendant . |
| 10 | If the plaintiff is under a disability the money will remain on deposit until the settlement is approved . |
| 11 | The king also depended to a considerable degree upon individuals who , like the leaders of the companies of the previous century , served in the royal army : Poton de Xaintrailles was for a period a ‘ veritable routier ’ , pillaging in different parts of France before accepting office under Charles VII ; Antoine de Chabannes , a captain of routiers , at one time had command of 1,000 horsemen before finding employment under the crown . |
| 12 | Big show of the night is without a doubt the Mudhoney/Flaming Lips/Eugenius bash at the Roseland Ballroom . |
| 13 | The Holy Trinity is in a sense a communitarian concept , for God dwells in perfect communal relationship . |
| 14 | Schubert 's unfinished C major Sonata is in a sense a piano score of an orchestral work , but then of course , as with the ‘ Wanderer ’ Fantasy in the same key , the point is to turn the piano into an orchestra , with the help of longer pedals and a wider dynamic range . |
| 15 | The Return of the king is in a way a parallel , in another a reproach , to Macbeth . |
| 16 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 17 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 18 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 19 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 20 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 21 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 22 | The editor of Wisden is in a sense the conscience of cricket . |
| 23 | For example , in the following sentence : Since the last time we met when we had that huge dinner Ive been on a diet the first two tone-units present information which is relevant to what the speaker is saying , but which is not something new and unknown to the listener . |
| 24 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 25 | Where space is at a premium the 268S also scores highly because it 's rack mounting and takes up only 3U of space — ideal if your home studio doubles as bedroom/study/broom cupboard . |
| 26 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 27 | ’ The Church is like a picture a lovely picture in a bad frame . ’ |
| 28 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 29 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 30 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |