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 | The Foundation for Sport and the Arts is an independent trust which decides the allocation of its own funds . |
6 | The Open College of the Arts is an educational trust . |
7 | Beating the Bounds is a public gesture , not a quaint old ritual . |
8 | The second basis for our natural incredulity about the evolution of very complex organs like human eyes and bat ears is an intuitive application of probability theory . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | CHASING the demons is a favourite pastime for grunge rockers Levitation . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | However , the termination of overdrafts is a painful process . |
17 | A goat that produces no kids is an evolutionary failure . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Recruiting suitable candidates is a delicate business . |
21 | However , the gut in all animals is an internal structure . |
22 | The use of live animals is an integral component of much research in the biological sciences , medicine , veterinary and agricultural science and psychology , in contents ranging from fundamental science to the chemical testing of household products . |
23 | Nitrogen fixed in the form of biologically useful compounds is a limiting factor for photosynthesis . |
24 | His face is still dirty from the dust and oil , except that around his eyes is a white patch where the goggles were . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Cutting high roadside kerbs is a high priority for Saltersgill Community Council in Middlesbrough . |
27 | The development of documentation guidelines is a high priority and we are working with some of the major depositors of data to produce them . |
28 | Whether watching performers in rubber hats and one-piece bathing cossies is an attractive proposition over dinner is a matter for debate . |
29 | Recognise that making friends with non-Christians is a top priority . |
30 | 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 . |