Example sentences of "be [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 2 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 3 | While the powers of the Commission to initiate policy may be conceived of as those normally possessed de facto by an unelected civil service , the powers of interpretation and of law-making are in a true democracy the preserve of the judiciary and elected legislature . |
| 4 | By the time that significant numbers of NMDA channels are in an open state the neuron has been hyperpolarized by the i.p.s.p. and this greatly enhances the block of NMDA channels by Mg 2+ ( ref. 22 ) . |
| 5 | Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect . |
| 6 | Their significance is not only in terms of the group experience but also in terms of the wider society , for it is these ideas born out of the street-corner groups , doing nothing , that are to a large extent the ‘ juvenile delinquency ’ of the police and criminologists . |
| 7 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 8 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 9 | Hayling 's left-wing politics were to a large extent the result of his background . |
| 10 | The vast majority of this kind of offence will be concerned with motor cars , but whenever the vehicle is of an unusual type the exemptions to the requirements must be carefully checked . |
| 11 | The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person 's self-image . |
| 12 | The greater their number is in a cultural unit the more secure is its culture and the more it can dispense with external measures of coercion . |
| 13 | An art department is to a great extent a collective endeavour ; certain people are doing crucial , if low-profile , work and to punish some and reward others is likely to be demoralising and counter-productive . |
| 14 | The improvement of mortality from the nineteenth century is to a considerable degree the improvement of the risks in the worst favoured classes and areas ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ True , ’ the Friar said , ‘ that is certainly possible , but a wise man 's life is to a large extent a commerce in probabilities , if he were to deal in possibilities he would do little trade . |
| 16 | The treatment and definition of enemies are matters forthcoming from the domain of ‘ the political ’ , which is to a large extent a male domain . |
| 17 | One is to a large extent the consequence of something deep in the Greek character . |
| 18 | This book is to a large extent an exercise in extrapolation . |
| 19 | The new facility , which occupies part of large laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering building , is to a thermo-dynamic engineer the equivalent of a wind tunnel . |
| 20 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 21 | Although seismic acquisition is at an early stage a number of attractive leads have already been recognised and these leads will be matured and tested during 1993 . |
| 22 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 23 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 24 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 25 | One morning , early in May , I was wakened by what was for a town-bred boy a startling commotion . |
| 26 | Dominic was with a different nurse every time I saw him . |
| 27 | It was in a literal sense the ‘ last resort ’ ( dernier ressort ) . |
| 28 | Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories . |
| 29 | He was in a special sense a village painter , endlessly inspired by the quiet landscape and tenor of life in what he once described as ‘ the very backbone of Puritan England . ’ |
| 30 | The growth of third parties in the Seventies and early Eighties was in a large part a product of the malfunctioning of the two-party system , partly as a consequence of Mrs Thatcher 's rejection of the post-war consensus but chiefly as a result of Labour 's leftward lurches . |