Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] [is] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although the argument over who were the real world champions was emphatically settled in favour of Nick Farr-Jones 's side , the political machinations before , during and after the tours have made it painfully clear that rugby is a sideshow — albeit one with significant political influence — in the scheme of things in South Africa . |
| 2 | The Bible is quite clear that God is a spirit and that he commands an action force of good spirits ( usually called angels ) . |
| 3 | It is therefore untrue that menstruation is a disability that inordinately incapacitates women . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , I am not convinced that Satan is a centre of pure malicious but rational evil . |
| 5 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
| 6 | The other predicates which we use to describe the game are empty(x) which signifies that the square x is empty ; filled ( x , C ) where x is a square and C is a player ; to-move(C) which is true if it is C's turn to play ; win(C) which is short for the formula |
| 7 | And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous . |
| 8 | Legal & General is a founder member of the Insurance Ombudsman scheme and agrees — whatever the circumstances — to accept the Ombudsman 's decision as binding . |
| 9 | Legal & General is a member of the Association of British Insurers . |
| 10 | If the feminist folklinguistic belief that women are less or differently logical than men is a matter of content , it could be that this is the sort of thing feminists have in mind . |
| 11 | I wish you well with your writing , remember talent is very useful and perseverance is a necessity . |
| 12 | The exact relationship between glagolitic and Cyrillic is a matter of dispute amongst scholars . |
| 13 | The concept is called conjunctive if p is a conjunct of atomic formulas , perhaps preceded by quantifiers : p p A … |
| 14 | From the above it should be apparent that coaching is a challenge for most managers . |
| 15 | Well Melissa 's cool and Crystal 's a bit crap and Catherine 's all right . |
| 16 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 17 | Ormsby from the Weld stable is joint top weight with Salmon Eile but 10st is a lot of poundage to carry and it may be best to rely on Loki who rather disappointed at the Curragh last Saturday but who should be given another chance if going to the post . |
| 18 | It is of the utmost importance that the Rawlsian method of argument requiring unanimity behind the veil of ignorance should not be defended on the ground that otherwise the resulting principles would not be fair because unanimity is a condition of fairness , or by any other moral argument . |
| 19 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 20 | Control of H. gallinarum is only necessary when histomoniasis is a problem in turkeys . |
| 21 | First , by being aware that relapse is a process . |
| 22 | Therefore , I think the opening statement is mostly true because Tamburlaine is a giant in this play , although it is more likely to be among less great men . |
| 23 | To see this , we have only to verify that ( 8.1 ) is still satisfied when i is a node of the cycle ( why ? ) so suppose that s to i and i to t are consecutive edges of the cycle . |