Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [be] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 2 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |
| 3 | That is our intention , er we are organizing briefing sessions for officers , and taking an approach which we want to get the information distributed to the workplace and that is clearly an area that we wan na develop . |
| 4 | It does say on it of course ‘ payable on demand ’ and not ‘ payable to bearer ’ in this instance , and that is quite an important difference . |
| 5 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 6 | Say half a knot — and that 's probably an over-estimate . |
| 7 | ‘ Things that people say in interviews , I 've noticed that their lyrics are a process of self analysis and that 's quite an introspective thing . |
| 8 | And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
| 10 | However , I am discovering that the church probably not the community but more a communion and that 's perhaps an answer to what Nanette ? |
| 11 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 12 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 13 | And that was quite an experience . |
| 14 | In ( 1 ) , a combination of directional and components strategies is being used and this is clearly an effective procedure . |
| 15 | A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others . |
| 16 | Another area addressed by the survey was the additional assessment , which is a feature of all general SVQs at levels II and III , and this is clearly an issue of concern to some centres . |
| 17 | The skill can be described as a group of inter-related subskills which do not require moment-by-moment attention , and this is also an appropriate description of skilled reading . |
| 18 | The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin . |
| 19 | ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 20 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 21 | Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context . |
| 22 | It is easy enough to analyse the formal characteristics of African sculpture in terms of vertical , horizontal or diagonal emphases ; of relative naturalism or abstraction ; of rounded , angular or cubic elements ; or in terms of tensions , rhythm and movement , and this is certainly an enjoyable and satisfying experience , since African sculptors have achieved a remarkable level of expression in what has been called ‘ purely sculptural ’ form . |
| 23 | These factors determine the orientation of chains relative to each other in the undiluted state , and this is essentially an interplay between the entropy and internal energy of the system which is expressed in the usual thermodynamic form |
| 24 | In the past , this derived from the massive government R&D programmes which addressed the demanding requirements of nuclear power , and this is still an important part of AEA 's inheritance . |
| 25 | Mhm and this was just an innocent party |
| 26 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 27 | And this was necessarily an inward thing , not a matter of hieratic gestures . |
| 28 | This has been dealt with above , and it stands on a quite different footing from the other forgeries in three important respects : first , it was never mentioned by Lanfranc ; second , it was not concerned with the claim to primacy but solely with the survival of the monastic community at Canterbury , and this was never an issue after 1070 ; and , third , unlike the forgeries with which we are now concerned , it was actually submitted to Rome and approved . |
| 29 | Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index . |
| 30 | Maybe deliberately so , but that 's only an educated guess . ’ |