Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceiling is low and a mustard colour , though dry rot has seeped through and chipped most of it away , leaving whitish , gaping blisters . |
| 2 | It is possible that a trust clause may have been omitted . |
| 3 | It is possible that a mutant child of that parent might be even better at surviving . |
| 4 | It is possible that a cement mixer or a tower crane may go into action or other works be carried out , as a hotelier or apartments owner seeks to maintain or improve standards and facilities . |
| 5 | While in this state , no further modifications may be entered , although it is possible that a quality rejection would cause the DC to re-enter the active state . |
| 6 | It is conceivable that an advice session on site is too public , so Stockton have developed an educational role in the school instead . |
| 7 | It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself . |
| 8 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 9 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 10 | From the recent work of Clive Partridge at Skeleton Green , Herts , it is clear that a trading post had been set up c . |
| 11 | Where subsequent to intimation of a claim it is clear that a Capital Sum Payment will be made , H.O . |
| 12 | It is clear that a leisure centre can turn a Monday-to-Thursday out-of-town operation into a seven-day-a-week one and thus substantially increase occupancy rates . |
| 13 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 14 | What is this but a textbook account of the absent father 's alarming return to the household — the return from the war , from business , from abroad , from philandering , from danger ? |
| 15 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 16 | He is convinced that a Cabinet minister is plotting against him and determined to find out who it is . |
| 17 | The 3i chairman is convinced that an enterprise economy does now genuinely exist in Britain . |
| 18 | The effect is similar when a District Health Authority pays a private hospital to perform operations on NHS patients . |
| 19 | In yet other cases a high-quality plotter-drawn product may not be required , either because the nature of the task is such that a draft product is sufficient or because the cost of producing the required number of plotter-drawn maps would be prohibitive . |
| 20 | Although the laryngeal mask does not protect the airway against gastric contents , it has potential for use in resuscitation and emergency medicine when intubation is impossible and a patent airway can not be maintained with a face mask . |
| 21 | Philip Tataurangi is 21 and a demon putter , arguably the boldest and best amateur golf has seen for ten years . |
| 22 | It is likely that a test case will be brought on this issue . |
| 23 | It is likely that a turnover tax will be levied on the proceeds , but a tax on winnings , or split between the two is not ruled out . |
| 24 | In the former case , it is likely that a Design Change will be raised to authorise work to be carried out to fix the reported problem . |
| 25 | In the former case , it is likely that a Design Change will be raised to authorise work to be carried out to fix the reported problem . |
| 26 | It is likely that an investment manager ( such as a member of IMRO ) who deals as counterparty with a firm for an unidentified client will qualify as a market counterparty ; although investment management as such is in a different paragraph in Sched 1 to the FSA ( para 14 ) from dealing as agent or , indeed , principal ( para 12 ) , the transactions by an investment manager fall in the same paragraph ( para 12 ) . |
| 27 | The date over the door is 1708 and a fire place is dated 1758 , but in an early Parish Register someone from Dubber Beck was buried in 1632 . |
| 28 | A good thick numnah is imperative and a Poly Pad is invaluable as this will disperse the pressure of the saddle and Poly Pads come in various thicknesses too . |
| 29 | It is obvious that a government agency for denationalization can not pride itself of having any ‘ historical background ’ , and whereas the pre-war Hungarian stock exchange followed the pattern of Vienna , Frankfurt , Berlin , and Paris , the new legislation tried to make use of all modern concepts ( which is specifically true of laws against insider trading ) . |
| 30 | The extra plasmids may appear simply because of the normal instability of the genetic material of the blood cell : cutting out large chunks of DNA is routine when a blood cell makes antibody genes . |