Example sentences of "[num] [is] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 THE Uranus-Neptune effect is aimed most of all at your one-to-one relationships , so 1993 is potentially a time of both great breakthroughs and disappointing setbacks .
2 Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ;
3 As we have seen , DVI is essentially a process by which digital video information is compressed and decompressed to enable it to be stored and retrieved as full frame , full motion video in a CD-ROM system .
4 FLAVOR FLAV found out that 911 is n't a joke when he dialled his local emergency number after a recent motorcycle accident on Long Island .
5 BS 5750 is simply a method of formalizing the approach to manufacturing so that casual and ad hoc practices are outlawed .
6 SUNKEN TREASURE Rickenbacker 650A Atlantis While it would be unfair to call this guitar a compromise on the part of Rickenbacker , the 650 is nevertheless a departure .
7 Two 's company , three 's a crowd , but when you 're talking about this generalized and more desexualized supplemented narcissistic libido to do with ego , then of course three is not a crowd in fact three erm is , is , er is the is er just as easy to accommodate as three thousand or three million , because it 's , it can be channelled into the group .
8 Whether you choose antique , modern , reproduction or a mixture of all three is purely a question of personal taste , combined with the sort of style you 're aiming at .
9 Well , E N V Three is basically a damage limitation exercise , and I think that erm the qualities of this area are so great that er it would be im impossible to envisage
10 His first volume of poems published in 1764 is essentially a tribute to the gardening skills of his patron , William Shenstone .
11 Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation .
12 In short , I think we are in the realm of ideology here , and the rise of the ‘ small schools movement ’ during the 1970s is probably a reflection of the general resurgence of pastoralism ln popular thought over the past decade .
13 ‘ Twenty-five thousand is quite a lot of money , ’ he pointed out .
14 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure .
15 On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable .
16 The weight , wt , given in Formula 1.1 is simply a count of the frequency of a tag sequence in the corpus , T1-T2 ; 1.2 is a modification of Bayes formula and 1.3 is suggested by Marshall ( 1983 ) .
17 Section 11 is therefore a crime which deals with dishonest borrowing .
18 The father of ten is now a figurehead to thousands .
19 No-one , for example , has ever seen a ‘ three ’ ; the symbol 3 is just a shorthand devised by man .
20 Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document , which contains little boilerplate , and little by way of exclusion clauses .
21 It is not impossible that S 985 is simply a forgery concocted by Eadui to protect his church from the demands of royal officials .
22 The inclusion of this explicit provision in 1977 is undoubtedly a result of the experience of twentieth-century conflicts that the prohibition of attacks on the civilian population is ineffective unless it explicitly includes reprisals , and it therefore constitutes a highly significant development of international law .
23 Force 6 is not a gale , it has to be force 8 or more for that , but it is still rough enough , with every wave breaking over the bows and sometimes over the whole boat , drenching us as we sat in the cockpit at the back .
24 However , 29 is still a lot of heavy goods vehicle movements for residents to tolerate in these roads between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m .
25 International Relations at the start of the 1990s is thus a subject in dispute .
26 Since T A does not apply to T B ( because 1 is not a node of T B ) , if is increased by , a solution of ( 8.3 ) is obtained by increasing , for all nodes of T B , by .
27 Because of the Repeater Hand Gun 's innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit .
28 Because of its innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit .
29 239 is thus a counterexample to assertion ( ii ) , Actually there is only one other positive integer which is not expressible as a sum of eight cubes .
30 1934 is consequently a point of historical transition not only ideologically and culturally , but above all , politically and economically .
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