Example sentences of "[adj] is [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 2 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that a large daggerboard helps with stability in lighter winds . |
| 4 | The result of this is that a direct comparison with the other regional data is not possible . |
| 5 | Of course , the implication of this is that a different measure is also a different concept . |
| 6 | This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country . |
| 7 | The ‘ glass ’ is hard as steel , and this is but a magical source of illumination . |
| 8 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 9 | In each novel the specific configuration of the two discourses , authoritative communist on the one hand , disorientating existential on the other , is the product of two overriding influences : first , the economic , political , ideological and cultural forces that together produced each particular text ; secondly , and this is but a super-structural reflection of the first point , Nizan 's divided ambitions as a novelist , attempting at one level to exploit bourgeois culture in order to disseminate communist ideology effectively ( the communist project ) , and at another level to create a cultural product of value beyond its immediate moment of production ( the bourgeois project ) . |
| 10 | This is but a particular example of a new truth . |
| 11 | This is because a complete rose is not usually ready to be pressed in one go , so you must condition it first by stripping it of its leaves and thorns , cutting the stem and then crushing it with a hammer , before placing it in fairly deep water . |
| 12 | For the same reason , the sun appears to be whiter and less orange-coloured as the observer 's altitude increases ; this is because a greater proportion of the sunlight comes directly to the observer 's eye . |
| 13 | Maybe this is because a sand-bottomed lake does not provide first-class spawning facilities and maintains a well-balanced stock of carp . |
| 14 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 15 | This is because a higher standard of care may cause the courts to pay more attention to the adequacy of the informational base on which a decision is made and to how thorough the decision-making process has been . |
| 16 | This is because a higher interest rate increases the cost of borrowing ; at the same time , a higher interest rate reduces the ‘ present value ’ of the expected yields from investment projects . |
| 17 | Allen Wood explains that this is because a fellow amateur had ended up in trouble after being written up last year in the New York Times . |
| 18 | This is because a significant factor is the degree to which assumptions are built into the information system and thereby influence and affect the decision making . |
| 19 | This is because a large amount of lustre pottery was made in the region — so much so that any white-bodied pottery decorated with pink or purple lustre was , and sometimes still is , called Sunderland lustre , whether it was made in Sunderland or not . |
| 20 | This is because a large number of collieries in the UK are continuing to produce coal despite the fact that their unit operating costs greatly exceed the proceeds obtainable at price levels both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 21 | However , this is because a large labour force — women and children — has been kept invisible . |
| 22 | What is interesting is that a different interpretation was also forthcoming , both from a lawyer and from thermodynamics . |
| 23 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 24 | Yes , well , I particularly welcome this erm concentration on areas , I think it 's an excellent idea , particularly in relation to housing , I think what we will find interesting is that a whole number of Oxford citizens , perhaps indeed from Barton , Blackbird Leys , Marston originally , who are badly housed in these areas and waiting in the most appalling accommodation for the opportunity of a council home . |
| 25 | Maybe more interesting is whether a smaller unit , the herred , dates from the Viking period . |
| 26 | The second is that a massive supply of gold glimmers unseen in central-bank vaults . |
| 27 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 28 | One point that is obvious is that a matching grant is generally more successful than a non-matching grant in stimulating local expenditure on a particular good or service . |
| 29 | The first of these is that a basic system with only 640k of RAM will be unable to use smartdrv , since it requires either expanded ( at least 256k ) or extended ( at least 512k ) memory . |
| 30 | The first is that a human observer has more or less direct access to some properties of the external world insofar as those properties are recorded by the brain in the act of seeing . |