Example sentences of "is a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , Mar Mark wanted you to look at the third line of the third verse where there is a reference to no eyes and wondered whether you have any ideas about that . |
| 2 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 3 | There is a reference among the additions to the chronicle of Prosper preserved in a Copenhagen manuscript to a Frankish attack on Bordeaux in 498 . |
| 4 | This is a departure from the Circulars it replaces , and must be made good . |
| 5 | In general terms , ‘ size ’ of particles is not readily defined as it is a measure of the dimensions which best describe a specific group of particles . |
| 6 | His selection ahead of John Wood is a measure of the strides he took on tour , when he topped the averages with 11 wickets at 22.27 . |
| 7 | The modal composition of a sediment is a measure of the proportions of the different major depositional components . |
| 8 | So if that figure is removed from the spending total the current increase is only two point three percent above the settlement for nineteen ninety three , ninety four and being twenty eight million pounds , or one percent , below the current years budgets actually represents a four percent real terms reduction and that is a measure of the cuts which the government this year wishes to force on local government . |
| 9 | The best-situated vines are found east of the village on a slope which is a continuation of the vineyards of Rilly-la-Montagne , but are not of exceptional quality . |
| 10 | The second is a warning of the problems that children from such pregnancies may face in later life . ’ |
| 11 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 12 | On your left is a gateway to the gardens of the Capucian Order . |
| 13 | If there is a bias in the proportions of left and right lesions entering the series of patients in the literature then this will influence the dominance proportions inferred for the normal population . |
| 14 | There is a correspondence between the rhythms of jazz , with its fondness for syncopation , and the sometimes gawky , angular movement that from now on often animated Minton 's work . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a problem with the certificates . ’ |
| 16 | One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation . |
| 17 | The amount of radiation absorbed is a function of the concentrations of pigments and their arrangement in the chloroplasts . |
| 18 | The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled . |
| 19 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 20 | The oilseed agreement , which reduces the cultivated area used to produce vegetable oils , struck in Washington last December to avoid a damaging trade war , is a part of an EC-US farm trade accord that is crucial to a long-delayed world trade deal under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . |
| 21 | But this conclusion would be quite misleading , since the pattern described is typical of all British sites and is a reflection of the coins circulating in Britain throughout its occupation by the Romans ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is a reflection of the problems that have plagued nuclear fission . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a worrying phenomenon which I think is a reflection of the times in which we live . |
| 24 | There is a great deal in what my hon. Friend says , and the pride which I and my fellow Scots have in the health service in Scotland is a reflection of the achievements of the past 12 years and the resources that we have put into it . |
| 25 | Truman 's work focused more explicitly upon organised groups , the increasing number and importance of which he regarded as a result of governmental growth : the ‘ trend towards all increasing diversity of groups functionally attached to the institutions of government is a reflection of the characteristics and needs , to use a somewhat ambiguous term , of a complex society ’ . |
| 26 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 27 | The preacher 's arrogance and pomposity made Rosebery erupt : ‘ He is a buffoon without the merits of a buffoon . ’ |
| 28 | Recent studies have also confirmed that there is a link between the zooxanthellae and the ability of the coral to deposit their limestone skeletons . |
| 29 | And , as you know , there is a passage with the cellos at the start of the finale of this symphony that is quite crucial . |
| 30 | The chief source of confusion , briefly , is a conflation of the criteria of sameness of meaning with the meaning of " sameness of meaning " . |