Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [is] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likewise unimportant whether is a food parallel to or not both because the relation of the lines does not depend upon the relation between the terms that are " in parallel " ( as we say ) , and because the notion that an ideal parallelism is a truly synonymous parallelism has been exploded by the principle of the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 2 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
| 3 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 4 | Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard . |
| 5 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |