Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 2 | For example , when choosing a carpet for the bedroom which is obviously a light wearing area , bright colours or pastel shades are idea . |
| 3 | This underscores the paradoxical nature of these investments : while they invest in notoriously volatile markets , the returns they produce are extremely solid , as befits an investment which is also a hedge . |
| 4 | If the Secretary of State believes that he can get rid of tariffs , why does he support the Common Market , now known as the European Community — that big business club which is essentially a conspiracy against the working class and is certainly not wholeheartedly supported on this side of the House ? |
| 5 | If the seller commits any breach ( even a minor one ) of a term which is clearly a condition , the buyer will be entitled not only to damages but also to reject the goods and treat himself as discharged from his obligations . |
| 6 | Reinscription is an oppositional practice which is also a perspective and language ( sensibility ? ) constantly interpreting and re-presenting all sections of a culture including its dominant and subordinate fractions , its conventional ( e.g. heterosexual ) as well as deviant ( e.g. homosexual ) identities . |
| 7 | But erm , you know , there 's a wonderful picture , I do n't know if you 've seen it , by Salvador Dali , called Sleep , which is a kind of head-like figure , it 's a figure which is mainly a head with a kind of sheet draped over it , supported on crutches , lots of crutches , and this kind of represents this , and the idea that if one of the crutches were to move , the figure would wake up . |
| 8 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 9 | Anyone entitled to free legal aid who is then a party to an appeal against a care or supervision order will qualify for non-means tested legal aid in respect of the appeal subject to a merits test . |
| 10 | Therefore , the historian to my mind who is really a lively and stimulating historian is going to be interested in the future as well as in the past . |
| 11 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 12 | Is it because he 's a bear who is also a white European ? |
| 13 | The only woman in Tim 's early life who anyone can remember is Gillian Malpass — a tall , good-looking brunette who is now a senior editor at the London office of prestigious US publisher Yale University Press . |
| 14 | As a result there is now a large group who are at a similar stage of HIV infection at any one time . |
| 15 | As a result there is always a possibility , however slight at present , that in the fullness of time , for one reason or another , the caravans could be removed . |
| 16 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 17 | From the viewpoint of the radical adult educator there is also a need for a reinterpretation of the liberal approach to adult education . |
| 18 | Eventually , as the generalizations are built up ( and in this field of research there is still a long way to go ) a ‘ theory ’ of social aspects of theatre can be built which will be based on social empirical foundations rather than shaky speculation or sweeping generalizations . |
| 19 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 20 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 21 | They have shown that , in the case where the Cauchy horizon corresponds to the inner Kerr horizon , the amplitude diverges towards the fold singularity which is thus a non-scalar curvature singularity . |
| 22 | This reflects the multiple pathology which is often a feature of older people presenting with specific medical conditions . |
| 23 | The point I am making , here , is tentative and preliminary : it is simply that , unlike cinema which is still a ‘ specialized activity ’ , television 's relation to the everyday seems more determining than its relation to fantasy . |
| 24 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 25 | Many residents have some kind of support which is usually a stick , a Zimmer or wheeled frame or a wheelchair . |
| 26 | That could not be said of " value " in this case which is essentially a matter of opinion . |
| 27 | Now , we you have neutrons and protons , they interact one with the other , but the particle that carries the interaction is not the photon , it 's the new particle called the meson , and you have got smaller particles , much less massive particles than neutrons and protons , and these are called mesons or pye mesons , and the pye meson has erm a mass which is typically a tenth of that of a proton . |
| 28 | As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years . |
| 29 | Where the defendant 's breach of duty is followed by a third party act which is also a cause of the plaintiff 's damage , the court has to determine the extent of the defendant 's liability . |
| 30 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |