Example sentences of "[noun] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties that public sector graduates have in getting into the senior positions in the professions have little to do with their academic accomplishments and much to do with the cultural stratification in society of which academic institutions are a part . |
| 2 | Its liberal hopes of progress are grounded in the beliefs that human beings individually have reconcilable goals like peace , health , and prosperity and that institutions are a human construct , not always deliberate and , once created , having effects of their own on people 's thoughts and actions . |
| 3 | By comparison with the US and the EC , UK competition-policy institutions are a muddle . |
| 4 | However you make them , your notes are a record of what you have read . |
| 5 | The heroes and heroines of Petipa 's ballets are an example of this category . |
| 6 | Like the ideologies of ruling groups , he argues that utopian ideologies are a way of seeing the world which prevents true insight and obscures reality . |
| 7 | Their neoclassical enthusiasms are an indication of their isolation from what even Jovellanos could term ‘ the vulgar and idiotic people ’ who preferred the Spanish drama to the precepts of Boileau . |
| 8 | I have no quantitative evidence for this , and the reasons are a matter for speculation , but the difficulties some users have in getting through to us show that a remarkable degree of persistence is sometimes demanded . |
| 9 | ‘ Major religions also exhibit dominating tendencies , and these tendencies are a result of the exclusivity of such religions . ’ |
| 10 | In and near Moscow are a number of other monasteries and churches built between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries , all of Byzantine character but displaying individually Russian features particularly in the domes and the stepped ogee , triangular and rounded shell formations ( called kokoshniki ) which topped the main building and acted as a base for the tower or cupola drums . |
| 11 | The book creates the impression that accounts are a jungle into which the untutored layman should not venture without good rations and a reliable guide . |
| 12 | The , the mechanisms of defence are a concept which overlaps , and to some extent replaces , repression . |
| 13 | OK , we 've got Hardware and a fistful of talced-up goths but when it comes to ominous undertones the altered States are a league ahead . |
| 14 | OK , we 've got Hardware and a fistful of talced-up goths but when it comes to ominous undertones the altered States are a league ahead . |
| 15 | But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have said that this unemployment and recession are a price well worth paying . |
| 16 | The flights that circle Kabul every quarter of an hour are a morale booster for the hard-pressed population . |
| 17 | The current problems of Germany are an object lesson . |
| 18 | Clearly , the existing technologies are a limitation and multimedia must temporarily be constrained by the platforms currently available to deliver it . |
| 19 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 20 | Indeed , one wonders if the play was written as a conservative response to the controversy , since it directly addresses the most challenging claim or implication of the radical transvestite , namely , that gender division and inequality are a consequence not of divine or natural law but of social custom . |
| 21 | Schools Minister Baroness Blatch said : ‘ Accurate writing skills are a requirement of the world . ’ |
| 22 | And tricky topics like mailmerging and label printing are a doddle . |
| 23 | I know we are playing well and Sunderland are a bag of shite but its a cup match and we seem to be shit at cup matches . |
| 24 | Enquiries before contract are a method of ascertaining as much practical information as possible from the seller about the property to be bought . |
| 25 | Swindon are a crap 1st division side who should nt have been promoted even . |
| 26 | Platforms such as CD-I and CDTV are a step in this direction . |
| 27 | The Germans are a generation ahead of us with their apprenticeship and their meister or master system ; we 've got to try and catch up . |
| 28 | Advocating the use of pen sketching as a means of quick and decisive location drawing , the author 's line illustrations are a delight . |
| 29 | Reels are an investment . |
| 30 | The key settlement policies are a case in point . |