Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [be] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planned for 1993 is a monograph reviewing the complete works of Jusepe de Ribera by Nicola Spinosa . |
| 2 | Below this was a scroll carrying the regimental title . |
| 3 | Central to all of this is a concern to limit state intervention and the play of politics itself because of a preference for the freedoms and liberties available to some in the context of the " naturally " self-regulating and ordered free market of capitalism . |
| 4 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 5 | And all of this is a problem facing the new actor coming out of training . |
| 6 | All of this is a world removed from Howard 's own wishes . |
| 7 | Most of these are a computer designed programs which effectively help our counterparts reinforce their position concerning our members , their conditions and their output . |
| 8 | The first of these is a poem called ‘ The Missing ’ . |
| 9 | But the largest of these was a group made up of assorted Yugoslav military formations , mainly Slovenes and Serbs , who had retreated over the Harawanken Alps from Slovenia on 7 May , together with German units , the White Russian Schutzkorps , camp followers and civilian refugees . |
| 10 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 11 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 12 | Usually , what all the ghosts have in common is a tragedy suffered during their life on earth , and they will reappear to a family descendant in the attempt to resolve what could not be resolved in life . |
| 13 | The only cause they had in common was a refusal to eat meat . |
| 14 | ONE goof made by Michael Dukakis during his campaign for America 's presidency in 1988 was a speech attacking foreign investment . |
| 15 | Mechanisms to make this possible were first introduced in 1982 , but only in 1988 was a debt/equity swap programme introduced . |
| 16 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 17 | Coupled to this is a maroon liveried BG ( Brake/Guard ) W80797 and half used as a Museum and picture gallery in connection with the local railway scene , the other as a general meeting projection room . |
| 18 | Precisely next door to this is a restaurant called The Great House . |
| 19 | Among these was a plan to cut the amount of personal income tax withheld by employers during the year . |
| 20 | For evangelism at best is a congregation learning together . |
| 21 | At 18/550 is a fresco depicting St John Nepomuk . |