Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ any dust or effluvia caused by a trade , business or manufacture or process which are prejudicial to health or are a nuisance [ to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood ] ’ . |
| 2 | And the the question before them , and therefore before me in r considering the objections , is whether or not these sites are part of the general extent of greenbelt around the village , or are a part of this village er which does not as a whole perform a greenbelt function , and that 's what I 'm looking at when I make my site visit . |
| 3 | couple of decades there has been an unparalleled interest in the occult and astrology and Satanism , and witchcraft and society at large , on the one hand it worships at the shrine of science and technology and then it turns and pays its cash , and it does pay its cash , and its homage at the signs of the zodiac , and at the other various things dealing wi or are a part of the occult . |
| 4 | The section enables a licensing board to suspend a licence on the ground that the licence-holder is no longer a fit and proper person , or that the premises cause undue public nuisance or are a threat to public order or safety ( subs . |
| 5 | In Europe , the main opponents of ratifying Maastricht are all on the hard or extreme right or are a handful of Stalinist leftovers . |
| 6 | It is all too easy under the euphoric conditions of a degree congregation to minimise the physical discomfort , the mental struggles , the times of desperation , the sheer hard work that are a part of working for a first degree . |
| 7 | It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life . |
| 8 | They passed four months just wandering about the countryside , pitching their tent , swimming in the numberless ponds that are a feature of the land , and living off game they shot , chickens they snatched , and hand-outs from the rejoic-ing peasants . |
| 9 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 10 | The space of desperation is a wide one , and if there is room in it for little stunted people , there is room too for figures that are a mile or an inch high . |
| 11 | things that are a bit , the repairs have been alright really . |
| 12 | But there are some amazing spacey workouts like ‘ Forgotten Realm ’ and ‘ Feel the Anguish ’ that are a bit like an alternative soundtrack for Eraserhead . |
| 13 | But there are some amazing spacey workouts like ‘ Forgotten Realm ’ and ‘ Feel the Anguish ’ that are a bit like an alternative soundtrack for Eraserhead . |
| 14 | I know when , when invented scales back in the early thirties er typically they were declarative statements which people had to agree or disagree with erm but er I think perhaps more recently people have gone more for things that are a bit like how would you feel , what do you think type statements erm so er |
| 15 | We both love things that are a bit off the wall , and we love pure pop . ’ |
| 16 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
| 17 | There 's some that are a bit , you know |
| 18 | well do you want some that are a bit hard ? |
| 19 | Once both hands are across , the feet will inevitably follow , smearing cautiously on another of those rounded breaks that are a trademark hereabouts . |
| 20 | But most of all , children laugh at jokes that are a play on words . |
| 21 | If , for example , you take a group of people and give randomly selected individuals within the group increases in income that are a proportion of their existing absolute income size over a succession of periods , a lognormal distribution will result . |
| 22 | Well er if you looked at the I 'll give you one or two averages and and I have to say that these are figures that are a mixture of what we know from the industry and what we what we know from our own company . |
| 23 | This is because that representative may not be an authorised practitioner , and could be putting clients ' money at risk , since an unauthorised practitioner would not be covered by the usual indemnity arrangements that are a requirement of properly authorised practitioners . |
| 24 | From Lombok you can take a boat trip to the Gilies , three small coral-fringed islands that are a paradise for snorklers and divers . |
| 25 | " Deferential conservatives " , " militant labourites " , " alienated workers " , " authoritarian personalities " , are types that are a sample of some population , but we could not list that population in advance . |
| 26 | However , there are a number of areas that are a cause for concern . |
| 27 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 28 | We restricted our comments to the design of pending trials in the United States that are a matter of considerable debate , and suggested that such trials should be comparative precisely because , as and say , ‘ it is not known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit ’ . |
| 29 | You 'll know that when you select NI products you 'll be buying gifts that are a pleasure to give as well as to receive . |
| 30 | Books and other materials that are a world away from truth are inhibiting , if not damaging . |