Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since however the words furnished tenancy are only a shorthand description of the presence of the elements , factual and legal , within the bracket , to regard an error relating to these words as jurisdictional , but mistakes concerning a , b , c or d as not , appears devoid of sense . |
| 2 | For women who have had no children at all , they are not a first-choice method of contraception , but can be used . |
| 3 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 4 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 5 | As Ulster Unionist security spokesman , Ken Maginnis , said this week : ‘ Loyalist paramilitaries are now a mirror image of the IRA . |
| 6 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 7 | The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed . |
| 8 | I am indeed a walking department of state . |
| 9 | The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation . |
| 10 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 11 | I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time |
| 12 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 13 | To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them . |
| 14 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 15 | Molitor is not a furniture maker of the Ancien Régime whose name springs as readily to mind as many others Roentgen , BVRB or Jacob although his career spanned the period 1785 to the Bourbon Restoration . |
| 16 | Certainly such support is not a routine feature of family relationships , even between parents and children . |
| 17 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 18 | This is not a pocket edition of Pelleas , a cut-price version for touring , but rather does it reveal the passion and the pity in the music . |
| 19 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Defence pays £12 per service to an organist who is not a serving member of the Forces . |
| 21 | For me it is just a childhood memory of noise and confusion . |
| 22 | Which the present administration of central government are doing their best to , under the same hammer as it was in those days , so it 's just , this is just a repeat performance of the those days and the government today . |
| 23 | The GDR is already a country member of the EC , with free access to the markets of the FRG . |
| 24 | And , although it is to be officially unveiled next month , there is already a waiting list of local people eager to be treated with it . |
| 25 | There is already a waiting list of 50 people for the new machine . |
| 26 | Just occasionally she has these lucid moments where she 's suddenly there again but it does n't mean anything , it 's just a chance set of connections in what 's left of her brain that soon gets lost . |
| 27 | Friends say the flaxen-haired singer is thinking about recording the B 52 's Rock Lobster hit but we reckon that he 's just a shellfish kind of a guy |
| 28 | But by and large that 's just a further clarification of some aspects and it 's not a quantum change of policy , all it did is collect together wholesalers of circulars etcetera er and and present them in a in a slightly er more concise way . |
| 29 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 30 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |