Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [adv] an [noun sg] " 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 | Most commentators agree that there was a change in ethos in economic policy over the 1960s which resulted in a more interventionist approach [ Beckerman , 1972 ] , and European practice was certainly an influence in bringing it about [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ; Shonfield , 1965 ] . |
| 3 | On the Wilsonian view , the social contract was primarily an arrangement ‘ between government , industry and the trade unions , on the basis of mutual sacrifices to reach agreement on a strategy to curb rising prices ’ ( ibid. , p. 44 ) . |
| 4 | Successful one-room living is more an attitude of mind than anything else . |
| 5 | The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then consider whether social security is really an incentive . |
| 8 | Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period . |
| 11 | actually Ronny Johnsen is even an attacker ( as shown in Poland-Norway when he netted as a substitute ) . |
| 12 | To classify these units into different types is inevitably an over-simplification , but it is nevertheless a helpful exercise . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 17 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The very first stage of mechanical filtration is usually an intake filter on the pump to remove very coarse particles and protect its impeller . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These conditioned psychological needs are usually an extension of a horse 's normal essential requirements ; and sometimes they are advantageous to us in our relationship with horses , but sometimes they are not . |
| 23 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 24 | Associative feminist psychologies ' awareness of the ambiguities of psychological signification is also an awareness of the rhetorical figures which structure this signification . |
| 25 | The great weight of Scottish opinion believes , with justification , that Scottish legislation and domestic affairs are invariably an afterthought in measures designed for England and Wales . |
| 26 | Human authority is then an evil in itself and the social relations which constitute the fabric of society are constantly being dissolved . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An alternative symbolic formulation would be unc where D = d/dt and the square matrix is now an operator on x . |
| 30 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |