Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the key general tasks for the 1990s were an acceleration of production , the perfection of new mechanisms of economic management , control of pressing social problems , including those arising from war and poverty , and the firm defence of the fatherland . |
| 2 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 3 | Doing the advanced course directly after the basic was an excellent idea . |
| 4 | Each of the four was an experienced police frogman , and each of them knew exactly what he was looking for — knew indeed the exact dimensions of the object and the positioning of the three great ruby eyes once set into it . |
| 5 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 6 | The relative presence or absence of the latter is an important factor in distinguishing between different categories of small town . |
| 7 | The defence of the first is an assertion of the second . |
| 8 | An example of the former is an orientation towards death denial . |
| 9 | His friend Lauder once attended such a service and was moved to comment that this assembling of the deaf was an affecting spectacle : |
| 10 | Japan was a country which had achieved ‘ modernization ’ , which could offer a model to other industrializing nations ; the militarism and aggression of the 1930s was an aberration , explicable largely in political terms , the ability of a small group to turn back the liberal trends of the twenties . |
| 11 | FIRST-TIME travellers to America should be aware that ordering a meal in the Land of the Free is an art form in itself , given the copious choice . |
| 12 | The site of the Unfair is an old industrial building close to the main train station in Ehrenfeld , a section of Cologne slightly outside the centre , but still close to the main gallery district , the Belgischen Viertel . |
| 13 | THE Prime Minister yesterday dismissed charges that his rejection of Margaret Thatcher 's industrial policies of the 1980s was an attack on his predecessor . |
| 14 | And if the whole life of the contemplative is an extension of the Incarnation , it is at this point that Christ is quickened . |
| 15 | One of the dead was an IRA Commander , Kevin O'Donnell , who was acquitted of a charge of gun-running in London last year . |
| 16 | To say they were playing for a 0–0 is an understatement . |
| 17 | Insensitivity while dealing with the bereaved is an endemic problem in our modern world . |
| 18 | Perched on a Jean-Michel Franck chair from the Forties is an elderly , very grand , very blonde Frenchwoman waiting to have her photograph taken . |
| 19 | Dovercourt in the thirties was an Essex coastal village favoured as a retirement home for those who enjoyed stiff breezes and bracing walks . |
| 20 | But the Soviet Union in the 1950s was an even more formidable adversary than Hitler 's Germany had been . |
| 21 | the establishment of women 's committees in some local authorities in the 1980s was an attempt to counter the male bias within the system . |
| 22 | One country child born in the 1870s was an exception to this , for she had to share her grandmother 's bed — until her parents removed her , having been superstitiously warned that ‘ she took my young breath . ’ |
| 23 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 24 | To Frankie , the brief excursion to the fair is an escape , a passing interlude , a reminder of his young sister in Chicago , whom he misses . |