Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 2 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 3 | Police in Salvador noted that in their city , on average , there has been a mob lynching every three days for the last three years . |
| 4 | Later I learned that the wedding had nearly been postponed , as the two families thought I might have been a terrorist uttering a veiled warning against the nuptials . |
| 5 | These were the irregular marks of a pit saw and , to me , are a feature showing the hard work which went into them , reminding us of how lucky we are to have modern machinery . |
| 6 | At worst , they are a facade hiding the worst excesses of management . |
| 7 | how thorough the review had been , whether they considered any matters of importance had been ignored , how far it had been an effort involving the whole school ; |
| 8 | Our belief is that if there is any change it is likely to be a change requiring a certain proportion of the grant to be spent in the domiciliary day care area rather than the residential area to enforce this wish of developing those sort of services . |
| 9 | A system might be a beaker containing a known amount of water or it might be a heat exchanger used in a chemical plant . |
| 10 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
| 11 | Although there wo n't be the saturation advertising that usually attends popular capitalism , there will be a prospectus containing a supportive letter from the Prince of Wales , and offers of preferential access to the centre 's facilities . |
| 12 | One very obvious possibility would be a time-window preceding the important event . |
| 13 | He revealed that although this appeared to be an instance favouring a pluralist conception of law-making , i.e. law representing a compromise between the interests of numerous groups , it was in fact a law which basically reflected the interests of the coal industry and those dependent upon it — manufacturers of heavy equipment and the electric utilities , who consume nearly 80 per cent of domestically mined coal . |
| 14 | For a molecular biologist , knowledge of a sequence means that the function of the protein specified by that sequence is known — for example the protein may form an ion channel or be an enzyme metabolizing a particular molecule . |
| 15 | Peter Hough ran through his investigation into a photograph of what appears to be an alien clutching an intergalactic attaché case on Ilkley Moor in a slide show which was like a conceptual exercise in boredom ( ‘ Here 's a slide of the letter I sent asking to hire a Geiger counter to search for radioactive traces left on the moor by the alien … |
| 16 | Finally , there 's a note-book weighing a mere 3.6 ; pounds . |
| 17 | And all of this is a problem facing the new actor coming out of training . |
| 18 | He is a child aping the conventional responses of an adult . |
| 19 | The area around Chapel-le-Dale is scenically attractive and prolific in surprises : it is a wonderland deserving a separate expedition and a leisurely exploration . |
| 20 | Here is a compass showing the eight cardinal points . |
| 21 | About a quarter of a mile down this road , off to the right , is a memorial commemorating a tragic death on the hillside . |
| 22 | In the magnetic system the grids are used to detect the position of the stylus which , in this case , is a coil radiating a pulsed high frequency signal . |
| 23 | In the magnetic system the grids are used to detect the position of the stylus which , in this case , is a coil radiating a pulsed high frequency signal . |
| 24 | We require to solve RA = I for R. Write the known matrix A as A = B — C , where B is a matrix having a known ( or easily found ) reciprocal . |
| 25 | Literature for Nizan is a mirror reflecting an alternative way of living . |
| 26 | Planned for 1993 is a monograph reviewing the complete works of Jusepe de Ribera by Nicola Spinosa . |
| 27 | ( iv ) The following terms , used alone or in combination , will be deemed to indicate that a person is a solicitor holding a current practising certificate , unless it is made clear that the person is not so qualified : |
| 28 | Often there is a symmetry underlying the superficial irregularity of the twigs , a basic radial pattern or an equally deliberate criss-cross arrangement . |
| 29 | This church is situated on the summit of a hill ; its façade has only one western tower complete and , between , is a gable containing a fine , five light , sculptured window with portal below . |
| 30 | Particularly interesting is a cameo depicting a cupid 's head and wings which he gave to his wife , Fanny Waugh , whom he married in 1865 . |