Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But So Very English is not a celebration of Englishness ; it is a sly and subtle demolition job . |
2 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
3 | As it is because I have always practised ordinary , normal methods of hygiene , I feel that er fresh food well cooked is not a danger to anybody . |
4 | Our Looks Great ! extra is virtually a magazine in its own right . |
5 | Anything too easy is not a conquest for , if lacking in fire , then much of the pleasure will have gone . |
6 | Do you agree that pastoral is essentially a form of escapism ? |
7 | The following is essentially a list of categorized items to ask for , so that you can get quickly into segmental phonology . |
8 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
9 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
10 | The most useful is probably a choice of law clause ( see cl 15 of Precedent 1 , and cl 1.4 of Precedent 2 ) . |
11 | While urging for a change in the terms of the debate , in the short-term fat women must argue that to be both fat and beautiful is not a contradiction in terms , as part of the process of beginning to celebrate our sexuality . |
12 | Small is beautiful is almost an article of faith in Britain . |
13 | The headroom that is available is partly a feature of the number of layers , but also a feature of the tolerance and openness of the environment in which we operate , an element which we seek to encourage . |
14 | Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience . |
15 | leaf and flower calyx strongly aromatic , used in potpourri , and tussie-mussies , herb pillows , for burning in the home to replace smells ; oil used in perfumery , e.g. Hungary water NB The above is only a selection of the uses of rosemary ; there are many , many more and it is , more than most , a herb for everyday use . |
16 | The above is only an extract from a full job description but nevertheless I can already identify four areas where I would need guidance and information before I would feel capable of meeting my responsibilities safely . |
17 | The Cathedral at Cahors is also a domed , Byzantine type structure with its domes supported on pendentives , but the building in general is now a mixture of styles with a largely Gothic façade . |
18 | Within this apologetic ( ironic ? ) defence then , sexual difference is sustained by the very inversion which divine law forbids , and the fact that it can be so sustained is simultaneously a repudiation of the claim that sexual difference is itself dictated by divine or natural law . |
19 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
20 | They allow us to describe , as the episteme of a period , not the sum of its knowledge , nor the general style of its research , but the deviation , distances , the oppositions , the differences , the relations of its multiple scientific discourses : the epistemic is not a sort of grand underlying theory , it is a space of dispersion , it is an open field of relationships and no doubt indefinitely specifiable . |
21 | To a foreign correspondent covering the British election for a foreign audience , whether a party leader appears energetic or decisive is simply a matter of objective reporting : a perception . |
22 | Whether one views this level of success as notable or disappointing is largely a function of personal perspective and professional choice . |
23 | Up to now the US airwaves have been free , but there are moves to license any new frequencies that become available to the highest bidder — some argue that television should go entirely by cable to free capacity for radio communications : the US Federal Communications Commission is supporting a bill in Congress to free 200MHz of government-controlled radio frequencies for commercial use , in part through auctions ; the National Association of Broadcasters said it would support the bill if broadcast frequencies were exempt from the auctions ; McCaw Cellular Communications Inc is also a supporter of the bill . |