Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it is down to a person 's individual choice whether to be bad and to commit crime . |
| 2 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 3 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 4 | ‘ A woman 's love is not like a man 's . |
| 5 | It is not in a plant 's interest to provide copious and unlimited supplies of nectar . |
| 6 | But as the replies from Collingwood and Parris make clear , there is more to a tutor-organiser 's success than this : for success has to be measured by different criteria according to the context of the work . |
| 7 | One feels that anything to do with card indexes is more in a woman 's line . ’ |
| 8 | She 's a dreadful-looking woman , big , fat , and her voice is more like a man 's . ’ |
| 9 | In addition Humphrey sees the aesthetic response as a ‘ pay of ’ for efficient and successful information processing ; it is a reward for the kind of mental activity that is really in a person 's own best interest . |
| 10 | There is no text that can be read , such as there is even in a children 's comic . |
| 11 | That is why in a fortnight 's time we will have at Westminster and at Broadcasting House the first fully digital editing equipment for radio in Europe . |
| 12 | The illustration of double ropes being used to protect a second on a traverse is incorrect ; the drawing of a double-fisherman 's knot is actually of a single-fisherman 's ; the section on rigging anchors seems very sketchy with no consideration of using the rope to equally load them , rather than slings ; different types of shunt are discussed for self-protection on abseils but there is no mention of the cheap , simple prussik knot as an alternative , or the even more effective French prussik linking the controlling rope to the leg-loop of the harness . |