Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [be] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 2 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 3 | If you fall into that category this is definitely a shoe you should look at . |
| 4 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 5 | In practice this is either a letter or a statement of value on HM Land Registry Form A4. ( e ) Insurance Insurance of the property should be placed in the name of the wife alone , the husband 's name being deleted from the policy . |
| 6 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 7 | Belemnites vary from small fossils a centimetre or two long to large specimens tens of centimetres long : of course these are only a fraction of the size of the living animal , with their tentacles extending well beyond the guard . |
| 8 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 9 | All it is , is where the head of the femur is not correctly positioned in the hip socket and the proper name for the hip socket , you 'll see in your books is acetabulum This is definitely a condition which is familiar as a fam a family tendency and if you think about it if you have a , a , a big hip socket your children are likely to have big hip sockets it 's a family |
| 10 | Teenagers frequently appear to be resentful of parents or teachers but in reality this is often a sign that they are testing authority and seeing just how far they can go . |
| 11 | Glass This is also a substance which does not fall conveniently into any of the three categories of gas , liquid or solid . |
| 12 | Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation . |
| 13 | No-one , for example , has ever seen a ‘ three ’ ; the symbol 3 is just a shorthand devised by man . |
| 14 | From the wave point of view this is hardly a surprise , because it was just they component of the oscillation which got through . |
| 15 | In context this is just a reply to Pippin 's remark that the song ‘ does not sound altogether encouraging ’ . |
| 16 | Section 11 is therefore a crime which deals with dishonest borrowing . |
| 17 | The weight , wt , given in Formula 1.1 is simply a count of the frequency of a tag sequence in the corpus , T1-T2 ; 1.2 is a modification of Bayes formula and 1.3 is suggested by Marshall ( 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document , which contains little boilerplate , and little by way of exclusion clauses . |