Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within its modest covers is contained a list of the huge number of modules now available to pupils and students all over the country . |
| 2 | A rug made in the Persian town of Kashan is therefore known as a Kashan , and an item woven by the Belouch nomads is called a Belouch . |
| 3 | A collection of symptoms is called a syndrome . |
| 4 | While it is admitted that the past exists , the quest for origins or causes is considered a symptom of disease . |
| 5 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 6 | But in one of those reeds is hidden a girl on whom the starry sky would gaze with smiles , for she is the most beautiful creature on the whole round of the earth . " |
| 7 | Now that we are going to use both beds of the machine , the range of patterns is expanded a thousand-fold . |
| 8 | Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market . |
| 9 | Each of these smaller molecules is called a nucleotide . |
| 10 | Women 's response to poverty and unemployment remains an enigma , and whilst the inequality which leads to civil war between men on the streets is called a riot , the battles at home between unequals , in which the less powerful are also the losers , is dismissed as ‘ domestic violence ’ . |
| 11 | Each of the 15 factors is given a weighting , so that the total weighting for the 15 factors comes to 25 . |