Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] be [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 2 | Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 5 | If you fall into that category this is definitely a shoe you should look at . |
| 6 | I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim . |
| 7 | I think if that were the case , you would have far fewer problems , but er , of course this is n't the position . |
| 8 | Of course this is where a mountain bike could come in handy , but you 'd have to put up with walkers pointing at you and shouting ‘ tosser ’ , and landowners chasing after you with a stick as another slice of expensive path slides into the burn after being cut neatly away by fat tyres . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The input hypothesis This is probably the core of the whole theory . |
| 11 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 12 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 13 | However , in the long term this is not the case , because of the extent of the power that can be gained by patrons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In practice this is never the case . |
| 16 | If this were the case one would also expect to find increased basal secretion in smokers — in our study this was not the case . |
| 17 | As a rule this is not the case and grave confusions can result . |
| 18 | In essence this is still the procedure used today . |
| 19 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 20 | In the control condition this was not the case . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the latter case these are usually an oversimplification because there is an underlying assumption that decisions are being made in a simple logical sequence . |
| 23 | In the case of the Fiesta used by the spouse this is not a business asset . |
| 24 | Well if you go by by bus every morning that 's why a bus in the night , in the |
| 25 | I 've not , Alastair accused me of being topical because of a member of the royal family this week this is not the reason but I 've gone for Leotard in the one twenty five at Cheltenham . |
| 26 | In our theory this is simply an example of the competitive process at work . |
| 27 | By definition this is largely an enterprise of elders and women who are charged with transmitting these traditions to a new generation . |
| 28 | Even back at the estuary all is not the sweetness and light that events like this week 's launch suggests . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |