Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] is a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only pre-school provision within is a playgroup which does not have its own premises . |
| 2 | They 're worried that having the two groups together is a recipe for trouble , and goes against the Government 's own policy . |
| 3 | However , the rising level of deaths and serious injuries in industry generally is a matter of great shame to us all , but it is a matter of great shame in particular for those who can be held to be responsible . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Maud , ’ pleaded Mildred , ‘ I know it 's hard for you to believe me , but that frog in the pond really is a magician and he can only be changed back by another magician . |
| 5 | The division of labour here is a notion used in part to express the fact that with more complex technology one gets more specialization in society , however for Marx and Engels such differentiation also always implies inequality . |
| 6 | What I have in mind then is a description of the route from a cyclist 's point of view ; distances , gradients , junctions ; alternative routes , eg longer loops for the more adventurous ; cafes , pubs , tearooms , and public places with benches ( because cyclists often like to ‘ eat their piece ’ out in the open ) ; some illustrations of landscapes ( these could either be line drawings based on sketches , or photographs ) ; and perhaps something on the history of the place-names , which is of interest to many cyclists ( eg where did Biggar get its name ? ) . |
| 7 | Getting into the loft however is a problem : a good loft ladder provides the simplest solution . |
| 8 | The result therefore is a zero-sum rather than a positive-sum outcome . |
| 9 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 10 | Every day a child somewhere is a victim . |
| 11 | A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared . |
| 12 | The massive , high-class complex of the Hawaiian Village really is a world within itself . |
| 13 | Working with the management now is a lot better than it ever has been . |
| 14 | Perhaps what is at work here is a fear of the other as same not unlike the fascinated fear of the primitive in the notion of ‘ going native ’ : a metamorphosis into the radically other which is no more than an all too easily imagined regression into one 's own ‘ primitive ’ past . |
| 15 | The one on test here is a bit different as it 's a Windows product . |
| 16 | The crisis of Catholicism today is a question of direction : Where is Catholic renewal to go from here ? |
| 17 | In any case some parts of the Committee structure are quite widely known about outside Government ; in these cases what is at issue therefore is a refusal to admit publicly what a lot of people know about privately . |
| 18 | As a quick reference guide to give you an indication of how many glasses of a lower alcohol product you can drink for every glass of a standard alcohol product below is a table which shows drinks which have the same alcohol content . |
| 19 | We do perceive snow as being cold and white in itself ; but since our doing so is a result of the texture of primary-quality corpuscles , there is no need to suppose snow really is as we perceive it . |
| 20 | Norman Jay , at Phonogram 's Talkin' Loud , is adamant that sending tapes willy-nilly is a loser 's game . |
| 21 | Quine 's epistemology here is a consequence of his theory of meaning and translation . |
| 22 | The driving force for inflammation then is a combination of drug and luminal induced mucosal damage . |
| 23 | The degree of the immediate impact of land reform however is a matter of debate . |
| 24 | But getting dates locally is a problem : ‘ It 's a struggle to find any venues in the area to pay at , ’ says group spokesman Magnus Wilson-Webb . |
| 25 | Th the strong highlight on the reflection on the water obviously is a thing which makes the picture as , and also the , the sort of rays of sun coming down through the cloud . |
| 26 | Secondly , the prevention of mental handicap is obviously not completely attainable , given that it would be difficult to eradicate such a wide range of causes , but the reduction of the incidence of mental handicap clearly is a sound proposition . |
| 27 | The British Royal Navy also is a source of national pride , and though it may not be as true today , ‘ Britain rules the waves ’ is a claim people would like to be able to make . |
| 28 | Oh yes , yes oh , all this instant disposal stuff really is a pain . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , of course we could n't if we had to , but my godmother really is a fairy godmother . |
| 30 | Among the companies which have threatened to cut their operations in the country , or to pull out altogether , are Shell , Dow Chemicals , and the Dutch division of Hoechst , a spokesman for whom said that it would consider moving to " Kazakhstan — where pollution really is a problem " . |