Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun sg] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although the argument over who were the real world champions was emphatically settled in favour of Nick Farr-Jones 's side , the political machinations before , during and after the tours have made it painfully clear that rugby is a sideshow — albeit one with significant political influence — in the scheme of things in South Africa . |
| 2 | But two weeks ago the Liberal Democrats reversed their policy at their spring conference in Nottingham , making clear that abortion was a matter for the individual conscience . |
| 3 | But two weeks ago the Liberal Democrats quietly reversed their policy at their Spring conference in Nottingham , making clear that abortion was a matter for the conscience of individuals . |
| 4 | It was not comparable to cycling , in fact it was so different that comparison was a nonsense . |
| 5 | It is therefore untrue that menstruation is a disability that inordinately incapacitates women . |
| 6 | All I can say is you are very lucky that lady was a naturalist lover . |
| 7 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
| 8 | ‘ Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 9 | Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 10 | Legal & General is a founder member of the Insurance Ombudsman scheme and agrees — whatever the circumstances — to accept the Ombudsman 's decision as binding . |
| 11 | Legal & General is a member of the Association of British Insurers . |
| 12 | I am not sure that militant was a word in common parlance at that time . |
| 13 | I wish you well with your writing , remember talent is very useful and perseverance is a necessity . |
| 14 | The exact relationship between glagolitic and Cyrillic is a matter of dispute amongst scholars . |
| 15 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 16 | I grew up in Lewisham , South East London , and it was awful because Dad was a bricklayer , and if the weather was bad , he did n't work . |
| 17 | They have high expectations when they come here and sometimes feel anything less than perfection is a failure . |
| 18 | I was not particularly thirsty but mine was a minority view , apparently . |
| 19 | From the above it should be apparent that coaching is a challenge for most managers . |
| 20 | Well Melissa 's cool and Crystal 's a bit crap and Catherine 's all right . |
| 21 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 22 | The same weekend in 1990 was identical and sketching was a tedium of narrowed eyes against the glare . |
| 23 | It is of the utmost importance that the Rawlsian method of argument requiring unanimity behind the veil of ignorance should not be defended on the ground that otherwise the resulting principles would not be fair because unanimity is a condition of fairness , or by any other moral argument . |
| 24 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 25 | Women will continue to choose men — or men women ; each sex always believes it is the other which does the choosing — the man being a little older , a little richer , a little more decisive than the woman , for this is how the majority of the human race pairs itself off , and why the myth of female inferiority is so prevalent throughout the world — it being the direct experience of so many children in so many households that Daddy knows best and Mummy 's a fool . |
| 26 | Control of H. gallinarum is only necessary when histomoniasis is a problem in turkeys . |
| 27 | First , by being aware that relapse is a process . |
| 28 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |