Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 2 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 3 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 4 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 5 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 6 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 7 | In Oxfordshire , for example , nursery classes ( for three to five year olds ) were forced to close , nursery placements being an allowed but not a compulsory provision . |
| 8 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 9 | Clearly an equitable geographical distribution of services is a necessary but not a sufficient precondition for an equal , let alone an equitable , use of services . |
| 10 | Second there is general agreement that a minimum level of literacy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the process of industrialisation . |
| 11 | Fifth thesis : Research is a necessary but not a sufficient ingredient for higher education |
| 12 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
| 13 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 14 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 15 | The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 17 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 18 | Once you have begun to understand that recharging yourself is an active and not a passive exercise , the next step is to learn to use your most powerful tool : the mind . |
| 19 | There is an awed and yet a sickly innocence , a pasteboard period falseness about the whole enterprise , and lines like lead which today make The Robe seem older , more quaint than silent movies . |
| 20 | ‘ This meeting is an educational and not a political exercise . |
| 21 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |
| 22 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 23 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 24 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 25 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 26 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |
| 27 | She was a Christian but not a Church one . |
| 28 | It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured . |
| 29 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |
| 30 | But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board . |