Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One approach to debunking the distinctiveness of the Thatcher record is to argue that the post-1979 policies are merely a continuation of earlier trends , for example , of the early economic policies of Mr Heath 's 1970 government or of the acceptance of monetary targets and abandonment of Keynesianism under the Callaghan — Healey regime in 1976 . |
| 2 | Long hours are often a reflection of an organization 's bureaucratic inefficiency . |
| 3 | xlvii , Against Euergos ) by pirates , local rowdies or litigants seeking what is nowadays politely called a ‘ remedy by self-help ’ ; in which case the answer was to take refuge inside the fortified central pyrgos or tower , whose foundations are still a feature of the Vari site . |
| 4 | The upshot is that London currency derivatives have completely disappeared , currency futures are now a monopoly of the CME while currency options are split between the CME and Philadelphia . |
| 5 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 6 | These four qualities or characteristics are only a beginning in attempting to say what spirituality is about . |
| 7 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 8 | Such combinations are perhaps a sub-type of the ‘ academic ’ degree course . |
| 9 | This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent . |
| 10 | These animals are just a handful from the diversity of the natural world and have been hounded to near extinction by trade , disappearing habitat and hunting . |
| 11 | The limitations preventing the addition of full restaurants in these units are generally a combination of the following : |
| 12 | NHS dentists are now a rarity in parts of London and the Home Counties — this is one effect of the new dental contract introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 13 | Second , we should not forget that political parties are only a part of the political system and they are not in sole control of Britain 's economic destiny . |
| 14 | Tantrums are also a way for children to test out boundaries : at the age of two or three , they are finding out just how far they can go with their parents , and how much control they can gain . |
| 15 | Such postures are often a pointer to some deeply suppressed emotion or past traumatic episode . |
| 16 | This indicates a far deeper problem and the surface doubts are only a symptom of this . |
| 17 | Some doubts are directly a matter of theology , others only indirectly , if at all . |
| 18 | One indicator of this is that there is a branch of Lloyds Bank at this point and after this the shops are generally a mixture of restaurants and speciality shops ( see fig 2 ) . |
| 19 | They are a great menace to humans and have been hunted to such an extent that the huge wolf packs that terrorised whole provinces are now a thing of the past . |
| 20 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of a blockade by Azerbaijan — itself a result of the dispute over Nagorny-Karabakh — which had forced the closure of pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan . |
| 21 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 22 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 23 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 24 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 25 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 26 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 27 | Animals were only a story in the Book of Remembering . |
| 28 | Course Television Coverage of the Arts is mainly a matter of pearls before swine and horses before carts . |
| 29 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 30 | The large number of temporary clerks and secretaries is also a function of the generality of their skills . |