Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] is [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collateral is something purely nominal : clothes given as a pledge must be returned at night in case that is the person 's only possession . |
| 2 | But of course that is a discussion which would be quite proper and er for us to have and for the board to take a view on and er for funders to comment on and so on and so forth . |
| 3 | of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received |
| 4 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 5 | Despite the penalties the recession and the increasingly sophisticated technology used by counterfeiters mean unlike the dinosaur this is a problem which wo n't go away but threatens to grow over the coming months . |
| 6 | Of course this is a work where even Karajan 's detractors can only suspend prejudice in the face of his two superlative versions on DG , but Rostropovich communicates a sense of stark yet searing tragedy which makes his performance , of the first movement in particular , very special . |
| 7 | It 's a good way of doing it , just saying , ‘ Well , my personal view is of course this is a tragedy . |
| 8 | Of course this is an illusion , but the exact nature of the change is now difficult to discern , except perhaps among such essentially novel agriculturalists as the settlers in the American West , ready to change farm and crop according to the prospects of prices or speculative profits , equipped with machinery and already buying the city 's products through the new-fangled device of the mail-order catalogue . |
| 9 | In large part this is a reflection of the underdeveloped state of industrial relations theory itself to whose improvement , by way of helping more general theory construction , well-designed comparative studies may be expected to contribute . |
| 10 | In part this is a consequence of differences in the habitual requirements of different species ; more than 82 per cent of the individuals belong to species whose larvae prey on aphids , whereas only 0–02 per cent belong to species that feed as larvae on tree sap or rotting wood , neither of which are a feature of gardens . |
| 11 | Most encouraging for the bookseller is the buoyant hardback market for genre titles : in part this is a result of the continuing proliferation of series which leave the poor punter desperate for the next instalment and willing to fork out the extra few bob for the hardcover . |
| 12 | In part this is a complaint about the inferior service these establishments offer . |
| 13 | In South-east England , some streams on chalk flow less than they used to do ; in part this is the result of abstraction . |
| 14 | In part this is the result of photosynthesis which is pumping oxygen into solution but again primarily it 's down to the physical saturation due to breaking waves and air bubbles being mixed in to the system . |
| 15 | The monitor hypothesis This is a development of the first hypothesis and suggests that acquisition processes create the utterances in a second language ( producing fluency ) , but learning monitors this production . |
| 16 | The theory is that only the maternal chromosomes permit a viable egg to develop in the hybrid ; in the mule this is the horse set , while in the hinny it is the donkey . |
| 17 | But if I had the money this is the car I 'd do . |
| 18 | We see immediately that case 2 is the reverse of case l . |
| 19 | Figure 6.9 is a reminder that the AL of maintaining a safe environment is related to the other ALs and also to the other components of the model for nursing . |
| 20 | What makes this practice abhorrent is the fact that recovery from surgery , as we all know , involves shock , pain , distress , and suffering . |
| 21 | The reason for that is of course that this is significant to the syllabus that we 're doing , you know Chapter eleven is the beginning of Jesus coming into Jerusalem in his final final weeks . |
| 22 | Erm eight pound fifty is the cost on that one gentlemen . |
| 23 | Cafe Direct is a consortium of four different organizations , one of which is Traidcraft , another is Oxfam , and th there 're two other fair-trading organizations as well , called Equal Exchange and Twin Trading . |
| 24 | Tail swished violently from side to side This is the conflict signal of tail-wagging , in its most angry version . |
| 25 | Gambler 's card This is a trick which completely baffles people . |
| 26 | For the Lazarsfeldian programme this is a matter , though not a simple one , of selecting and refining indices . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind this is the world 's |
| 28 | Despite all its potency this is a car which always leaves the driver firmly in control . |
| 29 | In effect this is the totality of its Rules of Conduct which are issued separately . |
| 30 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |