Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] an " in BNC.

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1 : In some environments ( e.g. doctors ' note-taking on hospital wards ) speech or typed input would be deemed inappropriate for social reasons , whereas handwritten notes are already an established procedure ;
2 For example , it is possible that clinical cases are only an extreme form of a normal reaction to the short winter days .
3 For example , commercial microwave ovens are now an essential piece of equipment in catering establishments throughout the UK .
4 It should be borne in mind , however , that the modules which constitute the award are merely an indication of the expected level of competence to be demonstrated by office workers who hold a qualification at Level I and II .
5 To the West are the rugged moors of Brontë Country , and the magnificent Dales and Peaks are only an hour 's drive away .
6 Wedding bells are merely an incidental punctuation in a life which will already be committed to career , aerobic class and the occasional night with the lasses .
7 The line-outs are also an area of concern .
8 Such meetings are also an opportunity to exchange ideas and see displays of books and other materials .
9 The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's final proposals are undoubtedly an improvement on those adumbrated in its Working Paper .
10 In America , dental insurance plans are also an impediment .
11 It is here , as our LFS analysis and our case studies indicate , that fixed-term contracts are quite an important form of engagement for temporary workers .
12 The times are only an indication of when results are due .
13 In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work .
14 Groups are now an integral part of most local authorities although operational styles vary enormously .
15 Whether or not we accept their view , it can not be denied that groups are always an important part of any developed political system .
16 The Lancashire side are now an even-money bet for the title .
17 Mechanical methods are also an obvious possibility , making use of the force or torque exerted by a flow on an obstacle .
18 The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement :
19 In most Latin American countries the Communist parties are now an accepted part of the political scene , largely because of their willingness to engage in the horse-trading of Latin American politics .
20 Courses for trainers and tutors are therefore an essential part of the training cycle .
21 Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened .
22 In her editorial Vivienne Van Someren suggests that arrangements for job sharers are often an afterthought .
23 The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard .
24 Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris .
25 The baths were quite an important part of my life in Reine .
26 Thinking is essentially an internal activity although of course it is stimulated and aided by interaction with the external world including other people .
27 The range and quality of the existing stock is also an important factor .
28 The ACE/ID polymorphism is thus an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction in low-risk individuals .
29 Pain perception is traditionally an area of psychological expertise and the principal aim of this project is to initiate a significant sociological contribution to the study of pain perception , building on the post-holder 's doctoral research .
30 Hence perception is fundamentally an interactive process .
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