Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | This reflects the multiple pathology which is often a feature of older people presenting with specific medical conditions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many residents have some kind of support which is usually a stick , a Zimmer or wheeled frame or a wheelchair . |
| 14 | That could not be said of " value " in this case which is essentially a matter of opinion . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Being close to Bridlington , Sewerby has lost some of its village atmosphere but life still revolves round the church and , of course , the Hall which is now a museum visited by thousands of people every year . |
| 20 | Then — in a passage of John 's Gospel which is probably a later interpolation — he initially queries whether Jesus has indeed been resurrected in the flesh . |
| 21 | However , there is no major industrial location in the inner-ring areas apart from a riverbank development at New burn which is just a linear extension of West Newcastle . |
| 22 | The real problems come when you think you 're asking an open question which is in fact closed ; and , worse , when you think you 're asking an open question which is actually a " Guess what 's in teacher 's head question ? " |
| 23 | There is , however , a very important subsidiary question which is still a matter of controversy . |
| 24 | We have actually increased our individual membership which is really a marvellous achievement . |
| 25 | We soon became accustomed to seeing her in Proctorial sub-fusc , worn not just for all the ceremonial occasions but for the daily transaction of University business which is now a major part of the Proctors ' tasks . |
| 26 | The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process . |
| 27 | Last week 's development of the walkabout was the famous soapbox which is now a talisman , like a Gibraltar chimp . |
| 28 | I think they call it fire safety now , in my time it was fire prevention but now fire safety which is probably a better word for it . |
| 29 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 30 | For each SCOTVEC module , there is an associated module descriptor which is essentially a description of what is to be covered and how . |