Example sentences of "[verb] is [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters is that a particular location in my DNA corresponds precisely to one particular location in your DNA : they have the same address . |
| 2 | Indeed , at the extreme , it could be argued that whether or not there is explicit communication is irrelevant : what matters is whether a collusive agreement , however arrived at , can be sustained by the self-interest of the parties involved . |
| 3 | What I think is happening is that a big shoal has moved into the swim ; a very hungry shoal of bream that behave very much like chickens . |
| 4 | What I would like to know is whether a private company , whose accounting period ends on 30 April , is exempt from prosecution for failing to file accounts by 30 February ? |
| 5 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 6 | Rather what happens is that a reflex reaction takes place whereby a signal is sent to the adrenal gland to release the chemical adrenalin into the blood stream . |
| 7 | A useful rule to remember is that a diagonal line between opposite corners of any rectangle is the longest dimension available . |
| 8 | What we need to remember is that a crude comparison of local authority figures is of limited value and our understanding of trends and contrasts would be improved if we took account of Farmer and Parker 's findings . |
| 9 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 10 | We are , of course , assuming that we are using an ideal switch which does n't exist in real life , but the point being made is that a switching system will be a lot more efficient than any resistive control element where dissipation is invariably relatively large . |
| 11 | Strove is but a tiny group of houses , a mere dot on the map , but it is close to many Tuscan treasures . |
| 12 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 13 | ‘ What this actually means is that a huge number of BBC Scotland staff , are now directly under London control , ’ said one departmental head . |
| 14 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 15 | One problem that has arisen is that a new tenant may not settle quickly and may wish to leave even though this may be unrealistic . |
| 16 | The reason why you 're elected is because a sufficient number of people wanted a Conservative government . |
| 17 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 18 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 19 | What this suggests is that a different type of decision-making with correspondingly different procedures may be more relevant . |