Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that , the word from the Other Side is that a new man will soon be looming in Diana 's life . |
| 2 | The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 3 | Then , the basic result is that a new solution of the source-free equations , depending on an arbitrary real parameter x , is given by ( 12.23 ) where ( 12.24 ) It can be seen that f and g are respectively the norm and twist potential of the Killing field . |
| 4 | The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension , with supplementary benefit . |
| 5 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 6 | The stonking irony is that a disappointing Fall gig remains worthy of two of most other bands . |
| 7 | The stonking irony is that a disappointing Fall gig remains worthy of two of most other bands . |
| 8 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 9 | A further uncertainty is whether a legislative text remains ambiguous or obscure for the purposes of the relaxed exclusionary rule once it has been judicially interpreted or construed . |
| 10 | Indeed one of the major conclusions to be drawn from the historical and sociological discussion in this chapter is that a proper analysis of the operation of ‘ race ’ as an element in British society and education requires an understanding of its interrelationship with the structured and cultural divisions which derive from class and gender relations , in the context of an understanding of Britain 's past imperial domination and its continuing legacies . |
| 11 | An important question that could not be addressed in this study is whether a single dose of IPV would also reduce the risk of infection with wild poliovirus and subsequent spread to susceptible contacts . |
| 12 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 13 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 14 | Suppose that one set of Gaussian coordinates which covers space–time is and a second set is . |
| 15 | The fear is that a nationwide network of police computers could swap unsubstantiated gossip and suspicion about individuals . |
| 16 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 17 | The disadvantage is that a large number of animals feeding in a small area will exhaust the food supply much more rapidly than would a small number . |
| 18 | ( An ironic postscript is that a new generation of physicists is growing up right now that entertains certain reservations about orthodox quantum mechanics , themselves brooding darkly about their elders and muttering blasphemies about ‘ hidden variables ’ , a term held in unmitigated horror by this older generation of quantum theorists . |
| 19 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 20 | The intended benefit is that a standard form of report enables auditors to understand more clearly , and report on , the regulators ' generic and specific requirements . |
| 21 | A second is that a rare conjunction of certain bright planets created the image of a very bright star . |
| 22 | The plan is that a new company , soon to be renamed LWT ( Holdings ) , will buy in all of LWT 's shares , paying one new preferred share plus a package worth 130p made up of a special dividend of 60p , an associated tax credit of 20p and either loan notes or cash worth 50p . |
| 23 | The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority . |
| 24 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 25 | A common theme in faster turning is that a low body position with bent legs keeps the centre of gravity low and makes you more stable throughout the manoeuvres . |
| 26 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 27 | My contention is that a national government should treat a sum of one Ppound in the same manner that an individual treats an ordinary pound . |
| 28 | In each of the appeals the first question is whether a procedural irregularity has occurred . |
| 29 | The texts are not very clear on this , but the main question is whether a third party in good faith would be secure from the missio only if he had paid value for the object under trust . |
| 30 | The test is whether a hypothetical by-stander of the requisite firmness would suffer such fear . |