Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [is] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | — GLENDALE Social Club doorman Brian Smith well known for his ghosthunting activities is also an expert gardener and is offering his services to disabled people and pensioners in Houghton , who are unable to do their own gardening . |
2 | Successful one-room living is more an attitude of mind than anything else . |
3 | The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting . |
4 | Direct marketing is also an extension of telephone selling and this involves selling direct to the purchaser through mail order , television , radio , newspaper or magazine advertisements . |
5 | Then consider whether social security is really an incentive . |
6 | Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem . |
7 | The British territory is just an hour away by hydrofoil , and its newspapers , television , and radio carry frequent accounts of the current confidence crisis in the territory . |
8 | actually Ronny Johnsen is even an attacker ( as shown in Poland-Norway when he netted as a substitute ) . |
9 | To classify these units into different types is inevitably an over-simplification , but it is nevertheless a helpful exercise . |
10 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
11 | The outer building is also an area where recording apparatus can be housed and where the experimenters can monitor the progress of the experiment by closed-circuit television . |
12 | Er er er as far as they 're concerned any extra work is just an enhancement of the rate to the bypass erm rate , point six two percent . |
13 | Influencing chief executives : The chairman or chief executive is often an enthusiast for the latest management thinking , but it 's generally hard to find direct links with the way they run their companies . |
14 | But whether Hughes is right or wrong in his overall thesis is less an issue than the incidental , sacrificial cost of an undertaking which — by another twist of tragic irony — shunts aside that which it holds most dear . |
15 | The very first stage of mechanical filtration is usually an intake filter on the pump to remove very coarse particles and protect its impeller . |
16 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
17 | Associative feminist psychologies ' awareness of the ambiguities of psychological signification is also an awareness of the rhetorical figures which structure this signification . |
18 | Human authority is then an evil in itself and the social relations which constitute the fabric of society are constantly being dissolved . |
19 | This pretty island is only an hour away by ferry so you will have plenty of time to get a real feel for the island and begin to enjoy its special magic before it is time to leave . |
20 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
21 | An alternative symbolic formulation would be unc where D = d/dt and the square matrix is now an operator on x . |
22 | Here the most obvious human form is only an outline , blackened at the edges like the trace of a Hiroshima victim . |
23 | To be an employed , married mum is quite an achievement and I think I speak for us all . |
24 | In these library databases the major key is often an accession number . |
25 | But I 'm afraid this stupid bug is hardly an aphrodisiac . |
26 | Thus the visually-based mental picture is invariably an icon in the literal sense of a ‘ symbolic representation ’ rather than a complete reproduction . |
27 | Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them . |
28 | While the sentence typically is a structure of main and subordinated and embedded clauses , the clausal complex is typically an aggregate rather than a syntactic structure . |
29 | This clip fixing of slipped slates is merely an expedient which can not forever put off the day when the permanent refixing or renewal of the entire roof covering is necessary . |
30 | The major consequence of this bureaucratic inheritance is thus an imbalance between the power of bureaucracy and the power of other political institutions , an imbalance which is believed to have serious implications for further political development . |