Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 2 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 3 | The result is the same if the molecule is thought to occupy three-dimensional space , but if it is centred on a co-ordinate system both positive and negative contributions occur with equal probability . |
| 4 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 5 | Helen Cooper notes that the inferrable character of the Nun 's Priest is the same as the inferrable character of Chaucer . |
| 6 | There is a Nazi in everyone , so schoolmaster Golding suggests , and there since childhood ; and civilisation is no more than the thinnest of thin veneers , as Hitler showed , masking a base , innate craving to rule and be ruled . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State was being totally disingenuous because , if the cancellation cost of the fourth boat is the same as the cost of cancelling the first boat would have been , it would be cheaper to build the thing — so saving on the unemployment benefit that would otherwise be payable to the constituents of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) — and not deploy it . |
| 8 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 9 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 10 | Moreover , Lord Cross 's appeal to the meaning of the word rape in common usage and the ordinary man 's understanding of rape is no more than a pretext for introducing his own view of what rape means . |
| 11 | Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word . |
| 12 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 13 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 14 | If a work is no more than an illustration of what I projected , it 's useless . |
| 15 | Subject to these provisos , the proposal is no more than a logical development of the original WEA practice of asking the University to provide teaching facilities through Joint Committee procedure . |
| 16 | How will it , without a list or register , determine whether a household is a single or a two-person household ? |
| 17 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 18 | The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 19 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that a bill or note given in consideration of what is supposed to be a debt is without consideration if it appears that there was a mistake in fact as to the existence of the debt ; Bell v. Gardiner ( 4 M. & Gr. 11 ) ; and , according to the cases of Southall v. Rigg and Forman v. Wright ( 11 C.B. 481 ) , the law is the same if the bill or note is given in consequence of a mistake of law as to the existence of a debt . |
| 21 | Unless you are telling me that the sketch greenbelt local plan is the same as the deposited greenbelt local plan |
| 22 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 23 | Since the voltage is the same and the dielectric is homogeneous the electric field is still given by |
| 24 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 25 | By ‘ modernity ’ I mean the ephemeral , the fugitive , the contingent , the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable . |
| 26 | The present issue is the 36th and the rate is 8.5 p.c. tax free with a maximum holding of £10,000 . |
| 27 | A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience . |
| 28 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 29 | This means that the second part of the question is the same as the first part , except for the variation expressly stated . |
| 30 | The International Squash Players ' Association said it will take action this week on the 20-year-old Pakistani , and the likelihood is a fine and a zero point score for the World Open . |