Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 2 | But when a pipe is discharging polluted water into a river which is largely an effluent channel , the only ‘ victim ’ may be the public , with the impairment to such amenity value as may remain . |
| 3 | You accuse me of being ‘ just like all the rest ’ , which is clearly an insult . |
| 4 | Clifford Geertz 's widely known article on ‘ Deep Play : Notes on the Balinese Cockfight ’ which is both an account of the way cockfighting may be seen as a symbolically charged text acting as a ‘ carefully prepared ’ expression of Balinese life and an account of the processes by which Geertz becomes a knowing reader of this text , is a prime example of the way thick description works . |
| 5 | In fact , an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency , which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume ( 1738–40 ) tells it . |
| 6 | They did it ‘ hastily ’ too , which is also an indication of their amazing , but altogether typical , ruthlessness . |
| 7 | This preoccupation with formal assessment is linked to the unique importance of a highly specialist 18+ examination ( A level in England : the Scottish system is less extreme ) which is also an instrument of selection for higher education . |
| 8 | OR ANY other concentration camp mini-series which is just an excuse for some right-on actress to shave her head and suffer stoically ( see : The Joan Of Arc Syndrome ) . |
| 9 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 10 | produce a unique entity which is again an element of X. |
| 11 | All 2,060 workers will go in a town which is already an unemployment blackspot . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I think the thrill of being recognized , which is partly an ego boost , but also partly a measure of how well you 're doing in your business , you know . |
| 13 | One can quibble over the slow speed for the opening movement of No. 1 , which is hardly an Allegro commodo . |
| 14 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 15 | These mostly consist of two elements , the second of which is usually an adjective , eg seasick , red hot , highly dangerous . |
| 16 | These mostly consist of two elements , the second of which is usually an adjective , eg seasick , red hot , high dangerous . |
| 17 | If the grid lines are printed in blue they will not show up so clearly when the plot is photocopied ( which is usually an advantage ) . |
| 18 | After the initial stimulus , which is usually an intention to commence the action , the completion of a response acts as the stimulus for subsequent responses , so that the chain becomes a smooth action . |
| 19 | We live in Hastings and have relatives to stay most summers , the highlight of which is usually an evening out on the town , finishing up at a plush restaurant for dinner . |
| 20 | It is the entire field which produces this outcome , which is then an effect of the field or structure . |
| 21 | It can make a story line clearer , which is always an advantage . |
| 22 | It supports dictation at a rate of over 30 words per minute , which is quite an improvement on the 20 words per minute rate average clocked up non-touch typing executives . |
| 23 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 24 | If hypocrisy formally resembles irony in operating on two levels in its systematic inversion of the truth , Iago here uses an old form of irony , the mock-apologia , which is really an attack . |
| 25 | In 1984 the Mills and Boon/Harlequin imprint sold 20 million ‘ units ’ ( as they refer to their books ) to 8.5 million readers in the United Kingdom and Ireland , a figure which is inevitably an underestimation of the actual readership . |
| 26 | His contribution to Physics has spanned a huge range of disciplines from muon-catalysed nuclear fusion ( which is now an area of flourishing research directly initiated by one of Sir Charles ' short papers for Nature in 1947 ) to defects in solids , liquid crystals , quasi crystals and polymer crystallisation . |
| 27 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 28 | So that 's been very important , economies of scale are very important in the erm , the growth of manufacturing trade , which is essentially an increase in intra , in intra industry trade , as , as opposed to inter industry trade which is erm the simultaneous import and export of er products from different industries like produce capital goods , so cars and in return you will import erm food products but the majority of the increase in world trade has come from this intra industry variety . |
| 29 | she 's just an arse , ai n't you , you 're just an arse , I 'll speak to you later right , I do n't know about half past seven , eight o'clock , right here 's Jan . |
| 30 | She 's nearly an adult . |