Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why the TBM 700 is truly a Big Machine . |
| 2 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 3 | This is evidently a fascinating line of enquiry with which to approach Nizan " communist novels . |
| 4 | This is rarely a problem for dating an archaeological site where fragments of broken pottery tend to abound , and it is usual to date several sherds from the same context to provide an average age and better precision . |
| 5 | This is traditionally a standard feature of story-telling , and may well derive from the oral tradition where the story-teller would switch from a narrative role to a dramatic one . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State has argued that this is nearly a four percent increase . |
| 7 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 8 | This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in . |
| 9 | In practice this is either a letter or a statement of value on HM Land Registry Form A4. ( e ) Insurance Insurance of the property should be placed in the name of the wife alone , the husband 's name being deleted from the policy . |
| 10 | This is particularly a problem in chronic disease . |
| 11 | This is particularly a problem in the rural areas , and it 's particularly in the rural areas where this happens . |
| 12 | One difficulty is the amount of imputation as described above ; this is particularly a problem for the study of inner city areas and such topics as social deprivation , where the information is likely to be more conjectural . |
| 13 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 14 | This is thus a subject for students with wide interests ; courses are taken in Chemistry , Mathematics , Economics , Computing and Management in addition to Engineering subjects . |
| 15 | This is both a plausible theory and one with disturbing implications . |
| 16 | This is both a luxury and a necessity . |
| 17 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
| 18 | This is both a natural response to cost pressures and a reflection of research findings that encourage the belief that shorter commercials ( up to a point ) are more cost-effective — in spite of pricing structures that make shorter commercials more expensive in terms of cost per second . |
| 19 | This is both a conceptual issue and one of data . |
| 20 | This is both a commercially and psychologically important fact . |
| 21 | This is both an interesting and picturesque site , and one that is now well cared for by people who fortunately appreciate its significance . |
| 22 | This is both an interesting topic in itself and a theoretically important one ; for one of the questions I will ask about linguistic reform is what constraints and limitations there might be on its effectiveness . |
| 23 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |
| 24 | This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ; |
| 25 | This is both an opportunity and a challenge for management . |
| 26 | ( iv ) Report stage This is normally a dull stage . |
| 27 | This is normally a gradual process ; few people notice that after the age of twenty-three they no longer hear the high-pitched squeak of a bat . |
| 28 | For Conservatives this is normally a once-and-for-all choice as it is unusual for a sitting MP to be denied renomination : Labour MPs are now subject to re-selection . |
| 29 | This is altogether a bold and uncompromising enterprise . |
| 30 | This is even a problem in better documented periods , and will only be resolved , if at all , by extensive research at the sites . |