Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 3 | This is a strictly private company in that the issue of a prospectus is prohibited and even a single individual may act as the ‘ founder of the company ’ . |
| 4 | Very often this aspect of rehabilitation is overlooked because once a person starts to walk without discomfort or restrictions the strengthening programme is stopped . |
| 5 | If the rise in the real wage rate is perceived as mainly a permanent increase , the supply of labour is unlikely to be affected very much , because of the stylized empirical generalization mentioned above . |
| 6 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 7 | Tilting back my head , I saw shrouds and regimental colours hanging like winter leaves when the flesh is gone and only a gauze of capillaries remains , scab of red , mothwing of gold . |
| 8 | In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 9 | Erm we are making more money in favour to them and our resolution is to ensure that even a , a profile of work to be carried out , so that it 's quite clear what 's been done , the time scale , the er the amount of resources that is going to be needed . |
| 10 | In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment . |
| 11 | In the community care reforms the purchaser/provider split is understood as both a macro-budgetary strategy in which both health and social service are divided into purchasing and providing organizations , so that the latter can be more open to competition in the health and welfare ‘ market ’ , and a micro-budgetary mechanism for decentralizing resources into the hands of front-line workers and managers in order to more effectively target these resources on those identified as most in need by the care management assessment . |
| 12 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 13 | Energy is released when either a neutron or a proton is shaken loose , the reactions being written ( n referring to neutron and p proton ) : The combined mass of the final products is smaller than the combined mass of the initial nuclei . |