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

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1 Treaty , which is raised by the applicants in the main proceedings in Case C 221/89 , that provision is merely an expression , specific to the agricultural sector , of the general principle of equality .
2 There were , though , comments from staff which indicated that assessment is still an area where further development work is needed .
3 This story is apparently an invention of foreigners , and does not appear in the Arab texts .
4 Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington said : ‘ People will see that this budget is merely an election bribe and it wo n't wash .
5 Successful one-room living is more an attitude of mind than anything else .
6 This chapter is therefore an invitation of sorts — an invitation to pause before plunging into the specific issues that follow and to consider some of the broader questions about the nature of education management .
7 This chapter is therefore an account of a failure to link English with national policy , a failure which also resulted in a radical diminution of the future influence of the English Association .
8 Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population .
9 The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting .
10 This ending is nevertheless an indication that ordinal person is still present in the interior make-up of the English finite verb .
11 This difference is primarily an effect of the composition of the lava , but to a certain extent it may also be the result of the high proportion of phenocrysts present in the lava .
12 Direct marketing is also an extension of telephone selling and this involves selling direct to the purchaser through mail order , television , radio , newspaper or magazine advertisements .
13 Then consider whether social security is really an incentive .
14 In other jurisdictions , an abuse of authority of this nature is clearly an offence and ought to be so in this country as well .
15 This inversion is also an instance of what was to become the classic move in ideological demystification : the metaphysical is displaced by , and then collapsed into , the social .
16 This title is rather an exaggeration : the resultant theories are not all that grand , nor are they fully unified , as they do not include gravity .
17 This operation is evidently an extension of the I operation ; instead of adding multiples of a different row ( or column ) to a given row , it adds multiples of the same row ; however , it differs in that now the determinant is l .
18 The British territory is just an hour away by hydrofoil , and its newspapers , television , and radio carry frequent accounts of the current confidence crisis in the territory .
19 finally , its physical presence exemplifies the concept of praxis , in that this materiality is always an element in cultural transformation .
20 True , it did so cautiously — the cut in the discount rate from 8.0 to 7.5 per cent ( with no change in the Lombard rate ) does indeed represent a modest move — but this caution is clearly an attempt to take account of the slowdown of the German economy while signalling that the central bankers are continuing to keep an eye on inflation .
21 This model is really an extension of the nine-unit landsurface model and adduces definable flow lines of material within soil-landscape units .
22 This account is clearly an attempt to develop an objective theory of how society functions , and it delimits the scope for autonomous action by individuals .
23 actually Ronny Johnsen is even an attacker ( as shown in Poland-Norway when he netted as a substitute ) .
24 Most of the animals trapped inside the barn were rescued , but two died — this calf is now an orphan .
25 We are , of course , familiar with a heavily armed Britannia brandishing a trident and ruling the waves , but her development in this way is simply an indication of Britain 's preoccupation with military conquest since the seventeenth century .
26 This transform is essentially an equation which will convert from image to map coordinates and vice-versa .
27 This document is also an invitation to tender .
28 This ethnography is therefore an attempt to meet the dilemma , for the problem of revelation and betrayal continues to surface and can only be resolved , at best , by overcoming these subjective feelings and pursuing compromises ( Barnes 1981 : 2 ) .
29 I think that , having accepted that , we must also accept that the buying and selling of jobs in this context is also an affront to individuality .
30 Since mergers help to create monopoly power the discussion of this section is largely an extension of the analysis of competition policy in the previous section .
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