Example sentences of "[art] [det] be [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , last year we got so much equipment ah the that 's just a there , but
2 The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure .
3 The latter is over a thousand feet thick in the Belfast area , and twice as much at Larne .
4 The latter is either a private network , or one set up by the local authority in your area which operates an alarm system at a central control point .
5 Perhaps the latter is just a short wavelength approximation to a true wave mechanics which we can attempt to unscramble by analogy with the relation that geometrical optics bears to wave optics .
6 We believe that our evidence suggests that the latter is indeed a critical factor .
7 The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes .
8 As the centre of the latter is only a half hour 's walk away , many of its attractions are the same ( and for these please see entry for Topp 's Hotel ) .
9 The latter is often a favourite host for the uninvited cuckoo .
10 He thought that the latter were only a small minority .
11 The latter was not a forceful intrusion , because local elevation changes were far too small and the lack of seismicity implies that magma did not force the surrounding rock apart .
12 The latter was not a goal which Laura espoused , nor was she comfortable working in such a formal setting .
13 The latter was probably a garden escape , and is not found wild in V.C. 110 today .
14 The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool .
15 The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets .
16 The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty .
17 On the one hand he was no friend of Mike Martinez , since the latter was always a great threat to Fearnley 's own business , which was based firmly on representing European , and especially top British , golfers .
18 The former is not a contract for the sale of specific goods ; whereas , if the seller has just 12 bottles of port in stock , the latter is a contract for the sale of specific goods .
19 The former is largely a commercial operation , but at Taieri you find the Otago Aero Club where , after a check-out by one of the instructor , you have the choice of Piper of Cessna aircraft to rent .
20 Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics .
21 Technical Manager or Production Engineer — the latter title is the more popular of the two , in practice , although the former is probably a better description of the role .
22 In the case of both international Marxist socialism and German National Socialism , the centre-piece of the party programme was the liberation of the masses from exploitation and persecution by money-makers , Jews in the one case , capitalists in the other ( of course , as I have shown elsewhere , the latter is derived from the former and the former is only a somewhat secularized version of traditional Christian anti-Semitism ) .
23 The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure .
24 I think that the two variants which struck the popular fancy in my little book were royalty and red hair — the former is always a safe card to play , and its combination with the latter had a touch of novelty …
25 Identical spellings for words that sound the same are not a real problem .
26 You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see .
27 So that 's a that is n't a straight logarithmic curve , but that 's a thing that occurs in nature a lot and in electrical circuits , that 's a growth curve .
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