Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 2 | Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer ! |
| 3 | Inconsistency is when the personnel director , faced with a request for an increase in pay , says " 4 per cent maximum " and then concedes 4½ per cent under threat of strike . |
| 4 | And as you may know , within IBM the line manager is also the personnel manager for the people reporting to him . |
| 5 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 6 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
| 7 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |