Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course Television Coverage of the Arts is mainly a matter of pearls before swine and horses before carts . |
| 2 | The great age of Antwerp in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is inevitably the theme of the main exhibitions the year . |
| 3 | Kate Allen 's ‘ Pubic ’ , a triangle of springy , soft hair mounted on three hair-coated legs is similarly the result of her obsession with the minute excretions of domestic routine ; the waste substances we eliminate . |
| 4 | A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day . |
| 5 | The number of such organizations is not the problem . |
| 6 | A change related to the smaller number of candidates is perhaps the increase over 1973 in the number of candidates who were elected with a quota at Stage I , 25 against 17 . |
| 7 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 8 | ‘ One has always heard whispers , ’ remarked Googol , ‘ yet to behold with one 's own eyes is quite an experience . ’ |
| 9 | The presence of normal or reverse polarity magnetizations is not a function of the magnetic phase dominating the remanence . |
| 10 | The best economic incentive to achieve environmental goals is often a tax , for it brings home to consumers the external cost of their consumption without clumsily trying to regulate it away . |
| 11 | The arrangement of the moots is usually the responsibility of the students ' law society , though a law teacher or practising lawyer can usually be persuaded to set the moot and preside on the ‘ bench . ’ |
| 12 | The large number of temporary clerks and secretaries is also a function of the generality of their skills . |
| 13 | Above all the drift to a self-seeking , self-satisfying , self-fulfilling approach to relationships is where the rot is really setting in . |
| 14 | I think that what links those two apparently contradictory aspects is precisely a concern with morality . |
| 15 | A waste of words is also a waste of time and money . |
| 16 | In other words is simply a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism . |
| 17 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 18 | The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength . |
| 19 | Premier Savings is not the type of savings account for you to dip into every time you want a few pounds to spend . |
| 20 | The main difference between rakes is how the head is made . |
| 21 | At the two ends of the chain , however , the border between nations is not a border between peoples . |
| 22 | A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment . |
| 23 | The visit to the stables is just a bonus . |
| 24 | Even now we do have the problem that our perception of schools is largely the contact we have had with the librarians or some of the staff . |
| 25 | The composition of teams in schools is rarely the result of systematic analysis of functional needs and recruitment by logically derived criteria . |
| 26 | The first is a belief that education consists of the transmission of ‘ male ’ knowledge ; that is , that what is taught in schools is simply an account of male experience presented as though it were everybody 's experience . |
| 27 | The most common microcomputer used in UK schools is now the BBC microcomputer range . |
| 28 | Every choreographer should realise that the usual vocabulary of steps is only a beginning . |
| 29 | A leasehold estate is measured by a fixed period of time ; it is often called a term of years , though a tenancy for weeks or months is equally a leasehold . |
| 30 | Perhaps the increase in inflation in recent months is merely a blip ? |