Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [is] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to this there is an exception , created by section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 . |
| 2 | The mood lightens Sunday , but I 'm afraid there is an aura of troubled trepidation surrounding your financial affairs so be extra cautious . |
| 3 | On another it is an exploration into how an abused child becomes an abuser — and the novel draws its painful resonance from the fact that this theme is part of Banks ' own experience : ‘ Alcoholism , domestic violence and abandonment , those are the three essential characteristics of my early family life , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Among the more intriguing lots is an altarpiece by Pietro Marescalchi of ‘ The Madonna and child with Sts . |
| 5 | Well on death , obviously a car first carries you away , if you 're ill it 's an ambulance . |
| 6 | Occasionally agency interviewers may adopt a jaded and cynical approach , the result of seeing people day after day and forgetting that each one is an individual who should be assessed individually . |
| 7 | Since such fatalities are frequently avoidable , each one is an indictment of corporate practices , and consequently wherever pressure can be brought to bear , either in the process of recognizing a fatal disease-causing work condition or in the enforcement practices , corporate officials will lean towards favouring those definitions and arrangements which minimize the recording of deaths as arising from occupational hazards . |
| 8 | Geophysicists are perhaps not best known for their romantic souls , and when they invented the dire appellation subduction zone , they probably overlooked the fact that precisely because of all this subterranean frenzy , each one is an area of quite extraordinary beauty . |
| 9 | The usual one is an amendment to the effect ‘ that the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months ’ hence' when , historically , the session would have ended and the Bill thus have lapsed . |
| 10 | The reason for this in turn is quite straightforward : in any language which makes a distinction between nouns and adjectives , it will be natural to use an adjective when assignment of a property is required ; it may sometimes be quite easy to find an adjective and a noun which express near enough — or even exactly — the same properties , and differ only in that one is an adjective and the other is a noun , but to use the latter for assignment is to risk conveying the unwanted imputation of " entity-hood " on top of the semantic value required ( see Section 1.10 ) ; therefore when a noun or noun phrase is chosen it will normally presuppose that the construction is not that of assignment of a property but instead one of equation . |
| 11 | That one 's an estate that one . |
| 12 | 617 itself is an indication of that . |
| 13 | 5 There 's an opportunity to go scuba-diving — something you 've never done before — in an uncharted area of warm , unpolluted sea . |
| 14 | The management of the cinema will even make sure there is an interval during the performance so that the sale of ice-cream , nuts and drinks can take place . |
| 15 | First of all there is an issue about the number of places which will be available . |
| 16 | Most significant of all there is an interruption in registration in 1206 when things were not progressing well for Innocent . |
| 17 | I 'm sure it 's an heirloom or something . |
| 18 | All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat . |
| 19 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 20 | The reasons for the southern fire station are clearly outlined on page seventy and seventy one which is an extract from her Majesty 's fire service inspectorate . |
| 21 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 22 | First there is an enthalpy change when the ionic lattice in the solid breaks down . |
| 23 | When we come to number four I notice a notice of motion in the light blue papers this morning on page sixty five there is an addendum to this in the name of Mr . |
| 24 | Under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 it is an offence — punishable with life imprisonment — to damage property ‘ intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reckless whether the life of another would be thereby endangered ’ . |
| 25 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 26 | understand why all the agencies involved identify four in those circumstances I think in R A Southern Water district to themselves , because we 've got that information repeated across the county erm and it seemed to me important that erm somebody er accepted responsibility for taking an overall view of the circumstances to er merely because of course we can only concern ourselves with manmade er circumstances rather than er erm but I think you know members would agree that as a strategic planning authority , we appear to be the only auth er the only body which can erm in the cold light of day we view the circumstances look at the implications for strategic planning and local planning and the suggestion of those developments and obviously that would be a concern to us and er I felt and I have to that it is an area of responsibility erm which er within the of this |
| 27 | The proposals , in force from April 1991 , contained in this document are consistent with the ideology of the administration in that it is an attempt to apply market principles to the institution which is the cornerstone of the British welfare state . |
| 28 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
| 29 | You know I ca n't see from that distance I thought John had a snowman badge on today , when I got close it 's an owl and it said I am the vet . |
| 30 | At best it is an armchair consideration of whether the case would stand up in court . |