Example sentences of "it is [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a deadly and a serious one . |
| 2 | First , there are factors related to the size of the country and its internal organisation : whether it is a federal or a unitary state for example . |
| 3 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 4 | At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave . |
| 5 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 6 | However , it is a commonplace that a decision-maker who is given an apparently unfettered discretion must still exercise his power within the limits imposed by the law . |
| 7 | That the dish is tasty and that another helping will upset the stomach are relevant facts because they do modify inclination ; that it is a rainy or a sunny day and that the wallpaper is yellow or white are irrelevant because they do not move the child in either direction . |
| 8 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 9 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 10 | It is therefore important to establish the reasons why it is no more than a secondary justification dependent on the availability , at least to a certain degree , of another justification . |
| 11 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |
| 12 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 13 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 14 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 15 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 16 | His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Superficially it is no more than a succession of parallel layers . |
| 18 | But it is no more than a seed in 1215 . |
| 19 | But if I may interrupt , how do you cope with the argument that Mr Curtis was making that if your settlement is , say , less than two and a half thousand it is no more than a large housing estate which relies on the centre of York for its functions , of service , shopping , entertainment , and therefore that the difference between that the difference between a new settlement beyond the greenbelt and peripheral development , in those terms , is no different . |
| 20 | In the hands of its writer , it is no more than a dreary bit of singer-songwriter earnestness . |