Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , the mechanisms of defence are a concept which overlaps , and to some extent replaces , repression . |
| 2 | But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have said that this unemployment and recession are a price well worth paying . |
| 3 | The flights that circle Kabul every quarter of an hour are a morale booster for the hard-pressed population . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And tricky topics like mailmerging and label printing are a doddle . |
| 7 | Enquiries before contract are a method of ascertaining as much practical information as possible from the seller about the property to be bought . |
| 8 | Reorganization and change are a feature of the switched-on company , but the reorganizations and changes come from recognized broad strategic needs and are explicable . |
| 9 | John Jarvis went on : ‘ Among those registered under the EAP are a family of four from Winsford who , if they proceed , will be purchasing their third Redrow home . |
| 10 | Key to its framework are a series of virtual processors ’ that can be conditioned to handle communication , synchronous input-output and administration transactions separately . |
| 11 | Key to its framework are a series of ‘ virtual processors ’ that can be conditioned to handle communication , asynchronous I/O and administration transactions separately . |
| 12 | But at the level of experience , essentially the foothills of prayer are a matter of modifying our consciousness in certain ways and breathing is a way of purifying the affections . |
| 13 | There are suggestions in the judgment that the decision would have been otherwise had the buyer been a property speculator . |
| 14 | Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree 's slow progress to maturity . |
| 15 | All along the trail are a number of low angle 500 foot domes composed of ‘ glued together ’ pebbles . |
| 16 | Other new harness are a Petzl one-size and two models from Troll — the 9a and the Rock Master . |
| 17 | ‘ The Yssgaroth are a story to frighten children . ’ |
| 18 | " She 's allus been a favourite and by gaw I 'm glad she 's back . " |
| 19 | Clustered around the main building are a number of older stone-built dye-houses , drying stoves and outbuildings , some of which have been imaginatively converted . |
| 20 | The artists in the index are a cross-section of landscape and genre painters that appeal to solid middlebrow taste and are bought today by the businessmen and professional people of the kind who bought them when they were painted . |
| 21 | An intercommodity spread between two index futures , where the shares in one index are a subset of the shares in the other index , represents a futures contract on the shares that are in one index but not the other . |
| 22 | There have in addition been a number of casual appointments . |
| 23 | Thus , The Tempest is about colonialism ; not only The taming of the Shrew but King Lear and Measure for Measure are a focus for feminist readings ; while Henry V encodes a contemporary Elizabethan colonialist endeavour , ‘ the fantasy of a successful Irish campaign ’ . |
| 24 | DIANA Ross turned up on Des O'Connor Tonight with the song that has alrady been a hit in America , As Clouds Roll By . |
| 25 | Similarly , Harris and her colleagues ( Brown et al. , 1986b ; Harris et al. , 1987b ) suggested that helpless attitudes and ways of thinking are a link between childhood lack of care , premarital pregnancy and depression . |
| 26 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 27 | Such legends as the White Cow of Mitchell 's Fold are a reminder , however , that this power can be misused and depleted . |
| 28 | For social scientists , then , environmental monitoring and prediction are a matter of considerable significance , especially as ‘ globalization ’ of markets and economies proceeds . |
| 29 | Open spaces and parkland are a feature of Birmingham , with the lovely city parks , Cannon Hill and the Botanical Gardens and the wilder country parks at Sutton Coldfield and Woodgate Valley . |
| 30 | He has a serious nature and his powers of concentration are a boon when it comes to his gruelling training schedule . |