Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to speculate whether the boys ' attitudes are a result of their own experiences or are simply a reflection of the attitudes of the adults in their household . |
| 2 | On lesser occasions the reply will appear as an answer to a ‘ planted ’ parliamentary question or be simply a letter to the chairman of a committee . |
| 3 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 4 | Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand , or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building . |
| 5 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 6 | There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance , impaired gall bladder contraction , and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes . |
| 7 | The former can not be defined by any objective criteria and are largely a matter of personal taste , although if you wish to guarantee a reasonable resale value , it is crucial to make sure that your tastes coincide with more universally held views on aesthetic appeal . |
| 8 | Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north . |
| 9 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 10 | The historical associations of the object of art noted by Benjamin ( 1973 ) pertain almost inevitably to any object which can be said to have passed through the hands of the ancestors , and are often a pivot around which social identity is constructed . |
| 11 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 12 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 13 | The percentage frequency is the number of 10-minute samples in which a species was recorded , expressed as a percentage of the total number of samples , and is thus a measure of distribution . |
| 14 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 15 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 16 | He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 17 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 18 | In Amblyseius , diapause takes the form of a temporary blockage of reproduction and is probably a device for preventing breeding in adverse conditions . |
| 19 | However , although ‘ multiculturalism , as an educational movement dates from the 1970s and is primarily a response to the post-Second World War migration of black communities to Britain , it is important to recognize that multiculturalism is a perennial social issue , for all but the simplest of societies are characterized by cultural diversity . |
| 20 | He holds a diploma in land economics from Paisley College and is also a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 21 | Professor Alan Leadbetter , the principal guest , is Director of the SERC Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Daresbury and is also a victim of governmentally inspired underfunding . |
| 22 | Although this might appear unfriendly — and is also a gesture of warning to other males — the female will usually stand her ground , letting the male know she means serious business . |
| 23 | Stukeley 's claim for All Saints ' College at Wothorpe is based on Speed 's early seventeenth-century map , and is just a misreading of an entry in Valor Ecclesiasticus , Henry VIII 's survey of the value of ecclesiastical property . |
| 24 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 25 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 26 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 27 | He was a member of the President 's Advisory Committee of the Confederation of British Industry from 1982 to 1988 and is currently a member of the Takeover Panel . |
| 28 | He retired as Chief Scientist for the Welsh Water Authority at the time of its privatisation , and is currently a member of the NRA 's Welsh Regional Rivers Committee , among a host of other things . |
| 29 | He was an Examiner with SCOTVEC from 1978 to 1981 , a member of the SCOTVEC Equivalences Committee during the introduction of Action Plan , served on the HND Revisions Committee in 1986 , the HNC Pilot Committee in 1987 and is currently a member of the HCIMA Education and Development Committee . |
| 30 | His accompanist Maria Noller-Namitscheva was born in Bulgaria and is currently a member of the chamber ensemble of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra . |