Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [be] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no chance to stretch one 's legs , as even the first-class corridors were packed , while getting to the reeking lavatories was an assault course and using them much worse . |
| 2 | How we develop and support the village-based systems is an issue to look into critically . |
| 3 | Although he can do nothing directly about them , the existence of the concurrent proceedings is an element , albeit not necessarily decisive , in the assembly of facts by reference to which the judge of subordinate jurisdiction must decide how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate the proceedings in his court . |
| 4 | The early chapters are an indictment of the New Poor Law in their account of Oliver 's upbringing as a workhouse orphan , apprenticed to an undertaker by Bumble the beadle . |
| 5 | ‘ Building the three lagoons was an engineer 's nightmare , ’ Tim told us as we munched our sandwiches . |
| 6 | The time limit in Ord. 53 suffers from three major defects : first , the basic limit of three months is too short and may , indeed , be contrary to EC law ; secondly , not even the three months is an entitlement : a case may be struck out for undue delay even if brought within three months ; and thirdly , there is a discretion to extend the time limit on vague grounds , and this creates uncertainty . |
| 7 | One of the worst incidents was an attack on a train near Ressano Garcia , 75 km north-west of Maputo , on Feb. 15 , in which at least 77 people were killed . |
| 8 | The more usual arrangement is that the inverted indexes are an addition to the main file , as explained earlier . |
| 9 | She told America 's ABC network that the topless photos were an intrusion on a private scene and described Mr Bryan as a ‘ fantastic friend ’ . |
| 10 | One of the interior decorators was an admirer of Salvador Dali and found to his secret delight that he could indulge his flights of fancy and still fail to meet the needs of Ceauşescu 's imagination . |
| 11 | The closed eyes are an indication that the horse is relaxed . |
| 12 | A van had been used , and the only clue to the identity of the stocking-masked kidnappers was an eyewitness 's vague description that the driver , whose face was not covered , was of Middle Eastern appearance . |
| 13 | But offsetting the above views was an awareness among party leaders that many welfare programmes , particularly old age pensions and the National Health Service , are very popular with voters . |
| 14 | The above arrangements are an attempt to relieve some of the congestion on the roads at peak commuting times . |
| 15 | We believe that the homoeopathic remedies are an information system and , as such , depend for their action on the quality of the remedy rather than on its quantity . |
| 16 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |
| 17 | Presumably ‘ he is trying to write a popular street ballad ; if so , it looks as if the stylistic crudities are an imitation of ‘ the idiom of the people ’ . |
| 18 | But now I think that the Nicaraguan women are an example to us . |
| 19 | Rather more impressive in the parallel stakes is an engineering model of the scalable parallel system in development at the company 's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratory , a moderately parallel machine that will have eight to 64 RS/6000 processors scaling up to 6 GFLOPS peak performance . |
| 20 | The correct movements are an extension of the positioning which you have already been using to maintain the patient in the right body posture . |
| 21 | The change in 1989 was 0.04% , so that the cumulative effect of the two glitches is an increase in slowdown rate of 0.1% over 20 years . |
| 22 | This trademark nicknamed the two cheeses was an acronym for civil clothes nineteen forty one . |
| 23 | The diversity of party systems in the Western democracies is an outcome of social , cultural and historical influences , and of electoral systems themselves . |
| 24 | The early pre-emptive presence of the blue helmets is an earnest of the world 's desire not to see the Bosnian war repeated in Macedonia . |
| 25 | The four pages were an introduction , a portrait . |
| 26 | The new ideas were an outgrowth from this , but were sufficiently novel that they could n't be pursued within the terms of his research contract with the DOE . |
| 27 | John Lowe , who donated £100 to the charity fund , said : ‘ It 's a brilliant effort , just getting through the 24 hours was an achievement . |
| 28 | Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix . |