Example sentences of "[det] [is] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 2 | This is a collectors ' item ! |
| 3 | An example of this is a jackal 's head , purportedly ancient Egyptian , and carved from the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli ( fig. 8.5 ) . |
| 4 | Again this is a Latinism er what 's it , what was Freud 's original term in German , does anybody know ? |
| 5 | ‘ This is a fool 's errand , ’ he observed . |
| 6 | Now this is a problem er because if you do n't sharply define your objectives and if you do n't know what you need to achieve them , then you 're likely to stumble into the possibility of an uncontrolled war e even into a total war whereas the original objective was not in fact er as serious er as , as er as that . |
| 7 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 8 | And this is a child 's and bonnet to make out of an old felted woolly . |
| 9 | It 's a little one now , this is the Art and Craft Magazine , you know they did , this is a child 's education copy , they probably still do it Art and Craft |
| 10 | This is a golfer 's first impression . |
| 11 | This is a walker 's paradise with everything from a gentle amble round the foothills , to fairly tough all day hikes . |
| 12 | In the jackdaw tradition of Isaac D'Israeli 's Curiosities of Literature ( 1791–1823 ) , this is a browser 's book enlivened by an engaging personality , the unlikely juxtapositions of curios facts and an absence of ‘ two cultures ’ apartheid . |
| 13 | This is a letter er submitted by on behalf of who I believe is and this is on the question of the absence of an agricultural appraisal so we will be carrying that out prior to the decision of the Planning Committee . |
| 14 | But , er er this this is a highways erm matter |
| 15 | This is a Back-Benchers ' day , and a motion has been tabled in the name of the hon. Member for Romford ( Sir M. |
| 16 | This is a children 's series … ’ |
| 17 | So this is a player 's instrument . |
| 18 | ‘ But this is a verderer 's horse ? ’ |
| 19 | But while this is a perfectionist 's instrument , it 's not intimidating . |
| 20 | That is a politician 's saddest obituary . |
| 21 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 22 | Justifiably defined as romantic adventures , the two books follow their quest-plots to very different conclusions , but each is a poet 's novel , with the pursuit of ideal beauty as the ultimate goal and with the chivalrous service of a man for a woman as its motive force . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't want to bother with none of that there marry jewarna m'dear , that 's a king 's ransom you 'm paying . |
| 24 | Well that would be an error , because it 's actually Canberra , but you could be , you yo that 's , that 's a mistake er , that anybody could make . |
| 25 | You do n't hear women saying I ca n't do that cos that 's a man 's job ! |
| 26 | If that 's a man 's name . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a man 's privilege . ’ |
| 28 | Surely that 's a man 's name ? ’ |
| 29 | That 's a man 's job , the woman would say . |
| 30 | Secondly for your efforts in putting for the recent joint Delegates Conference on the out-sourcing and that 's a company 's way and not mine . |