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 .
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