Example sentences of "is [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sound of his or her own voice is in a similar way an important part of a person 's self-image . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The treatment and definition of enemies are matters forthcoming from the domain of ‘ the political ’ , which is to a large extent a male domain . |
| 8 | One is to a large extent the consequence of something deep in the Greek character . |
| 9 | This book is to a large extent an exercise in extrapolation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |