Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [is] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class .
2 Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment .
3 The exponent n is the Avrami exponent and is an integer which can provide information on the geometric form of the growth .
4 Drinks all round … the family-run pub that 's an award winner .
5 And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies .
6 But this statement is an oversimplification : the phrase ‘ having the force of law ’ has no precise meaning but is an amalgam of features which different rules may possess to a greater or lesser extent .
7 I 'm an employee of the E E F in the same way that is an employee of G M B , in the same way that managers and staff are all employees of the companies they work for , in the same way that your rank and file members are all employees , in the same way that your full time officials are all employees .
8 One evening after the kind of soft autumnal day that is an echo of the summer gone , when the sun sets in the western sky to cast great pinks ant reds across its distant clouds , Creggan was peaceful at his stance , dreaming of his own homesite .
  Next page