Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disability arts is a circuitous route to the inclusion of Disabled people in mainstream arts and wider society . |
| 2 | More fundamentally , the insistence that science and technology are linked together and that schools must concentrate on science at the expense of the arts is a long-term weakness of the scheme . |
| 3 | Now to many people community arts is a red rag to a bull because there is the feeling that a lot of these things start off quite splendidly as voluntary organizations , and suddenly they 've got their fingers in the public purse . |
| 4 | More recently we have come to see that the concept of science or arts is a social construction ; as Michael Young has argued : |
| 5 | Beating the Bounds is a public gesture , not a quaint old ritual . |
| 6 | A thorough and systematic evaluation of the kinds of support which have passed between kin over the past two centuries is a separate project in its own right . |
| 7 | Between her spraddled legs is a yellow gingham tea towel on which are laid two red cups and saucers , both containing water , and two plates with Smarties and hundreds-and-thousands on . |
| 8 | CHASING the demons is a favourite pastime for grunge rockers Levitation . |
| 9 | An important side effect of longterm octreotide treatment with intermittent injections is a high incidence , up to 50% , of gall stone formation during one year of treatment . |
| 10 | Good external lighting with heat sensors is a different matter , and one to be commended — the Electricity Board or an NICEIC contractor will fit these for you . |
| 11 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 12 | However , the termination of overdrafts is a painful process . |
| 13 | Class Readers is a comprehensive collection of activities offering practical advice and suggestions on how to exploit class readers to promote language and to develop both perceptive and literary skills . |
| 14 | The co-operation between the UK and Australian clearinghouses in the area of their databases is a good example , and current support by the UK clearinghouse for several continental European clearinghouses , shows the potential . |
| 15 | Recruiting suitable candidates is a delicate business . |
| 16 | Nitrogen fixed in the form of biologically useful compounds is a limiting factor for photosynthesis . |
| 17 | His face is still dirty from the dust and oil , except that around his eyes is a white patch where the goggles were . |
| 18 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |
| 19 | Cutting high roadside kerbs is a high priority for Saltersgill Community Council in Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | The development of documentation guidelines is a high priority and we are working with some of the major depositors of data to produce them . |
| 21 | Recognise that making friends with non-Christians is a top priority . |
| 22 | The HSE 's view is that the large-scale use of genetically manufactured organisms is inherently no more dangerous than the vaccine , antibiotic or enzyme industries , where work with vats of microbes or handling large amounts of purified proteins is a daily occurrence . |
| 23 | Floating voters tend to say things like ‘ Of course , being in carpets , what I 'm really looking for from the parties is a firm pledge on European weaving quotas , ’ and they tend to sound like Hurd and look like Gummer . |
| 24 | The growing literature on local labour parties is a belated recognition of this ; nowhere is the point made more forcibly than in Savage 's ( 1987 ) study of labour politics in Preston from 1880 to 1940 . |
| 25 | The fact that one of the parties is a public body does not necessarily affect the nature of the dispute or the law applicable to it . |
| 26 | For them , losing their tails as a way of saving their heads is a common event , and is a specialised process known as autotomy , which literally means ‘ self-cutting ’ . |
| 27 | Further , if , as Woolgar emphasizes ( 1988a ) , reflexivity on the part of authors is a vital quality in helping others understand how social-scientific knowledge is produced , these reflections are important to demonstrate some of the social processes lying behind and operating upon this study . |
| 28 | Sun Busters is a separate brochure featuring late availability across a raft of Unijet products at reduced prices . |
| 29 | As late as the Roman period we find a man with the splendid name Marcus Antonius Bagoas ( Keil and Premerstein , Zweite Reise in Lydien no. 10 ; this man must have got the Roman citizenship from Mark Antony , but Bagoas is a Persian name ) . |
| 30 | The manual that comes with Contraptions is a complete load of old tosh . |