Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [is] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is our SW regional buyer and is a school teacher . |
| 2 | For the record , the darkened piece of centuries-old wood that is a link with a 1,400-year-old cult is now kept in a safe . |
| 3 | A register is a statutory designated body that is a basis for designating liability , and a list is a source of administrative efficiency for the use of the local authority . |
| 4 | THE UNITED STATES has shelved plans to cut a military road through a pristine Honduran rain-forest that is a staging post for guerilla raids on Nicaragua . |
| 5 | Born deaf , and now aged 30 , Shaw holds diplomas in chemical and electronic engineering and is a person with many hobbies including computer programming , car maintenance , photography squash , travel and reading . |
| 6 | He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade . |
| 7 | In addition , Peter Wood , who founded Direct Line and is a director of Royal Bank , is believed to be keen to see the company floated on the stock market . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you know gypsy women do vulgar dancing that 's a disgrace ? |
| 9 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 10 | The series 3 , 2 , 1 is known as graphic form and is a time honoured layout for newsprint . |
| 11 | But such a world is vastly more remote from the actual world than is a world in which , when you are sitting reading , you believe that you are . |
| 12 | The most popularly accepted story , probably greatly altered since its origins some 300 years ago in 1676 , concerns jealousy , greed , murder , the eternal triangle and every other human emotion that is a foreplay to disaster . |
| 13 | Utopian thought has often been denigrated for its idealism , yet I would argue that , unlike religion , " the sigh of the oppressed creature , the heart of a heartless world … the spirit of a spiritless situation … the opium of the people " ( Marx , Contribution to the Critique of Hegel 's philosophy of Right ) — Utopian thinking represents a conscious attempt to pose historical goals for human action and is a stimulant for action and change " the amphetamine of the people " . |
| 14 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 15 | Whether this abnormal response to the meal in these morbidly obese subjects is as a result of an intrinsic abnormality or is a consequence of pancreatic hypofunction seen in the morbidly obese is unclear . |
| 16 | We 've asked four top designers to join us for the day and show just how they would accessorize the little black dress that is a staple of this season 's wardrobe . |
| 17 | ‘ Languages of Ireland ’ , which runs from October 12 to 16 , takes as its theme the centenary of the founding of the Gaelic league and is a celebration of the rich diversity that currently exist in Irish writing . |
| 18 | If on the other hand residential accommodation is granted for a term at a rent with exclusive possession , the landlord providing neither attendance nor services , the grant is a tenancy ; any express reservation to the landlord of limited rights to enter and view the state of the premises and to repair and maintain the premises only serves to emphasise the fact that the grantee is entitled to exclusive possession and is a tenant . |
| 19 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 20 | He is a good entertainer and is a chance to see if he can use that as a springboard for a new career . |
| 21 | A sound knowledge of law is as essential to the professional caterer as is a knowledge of business management and the fundamental skills of the profession . |
| 22 | There is a new openness in our inner lives , a new emotional effectiveness , a dynamic gentleness that is a blessing to others who are attracted to the serenity of spirit they see in us . |
| 23 | We can make a safe virus that is a derivative of HIV and will still infect the cells susceptible to the Aids virus . ’ |
| 24 | The second fee is known as the initial contribution and is a payment towards the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund . |
| 25 | The difference in alteration between tissue type plasminogen activator antigen and activity , and urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen and activity in columnar epithelial carcinomas has been seen before in colonic neoplasia and is a consequence of the complex regulation mechanism of the activity of both proteases . |
| 26 | It will become in the mind a small place that is a sanctuary . |
| 27 | Stacy Dean Campbell has the most pluck of all , a nice tonsil-trembling way that 's a bit like baby Elvis . |
| 28 | The α subunit carries a binding site for cholinergic ligand and is a target for pathogenic autoantibodies in the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis ( MG ) ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) . |
| 29 | As we saw in Chapter III , that a person does a particular job , lives in a particular town or is a vegetarian is usually regarded as a contingent fact about them . |
| 30 | It belongs to no particular approach but is a means of linking theory with empirical analysis to the betterment of theory . |