Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably that 's worth quite a lot of money is n't it ? |
| 2 | Homoeopathy is about why a remedy is given , not what is given . |
| 3 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 4 | Each can you save is worth nearly a penny to the Appeal . |
| 5 | It is that Science is for ever a Search , never really a finding , it is a journey , never really an arrival . |
| 6 | ‘ Georgina 's in quite a state , underneath the armour-plated shell . |
| 7 | Such a photon is in rather a quandary . |
| 8 | There is in both a sense of the elemental . |
| 9 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 10 | There 's at least a metre . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm a firm believer in breastfeeding and intend to feed Jake until he 's at least a year old but he has a bottle of formula milk when I 'm out in the evening and drinks from a spouted cup at mealtimes — usually pure juice because there 's no added sugar . ’ |
| 12 | That means it 's at least a year old |
| 13 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 14 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Go ! ’ , for example , is at once a sentence , a clause , a phrase , and a word . |
| 16 | In Amalgamemnon story-telling in the future tense is at once a reassertion of individual creativity and a counter-attack on the discourses of the media which ignore the fictionality of the material they present and the conventions which are at its source . |
| 17 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 18 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 19 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 20 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 21 | The metaphysical construction of subjectivity is at once an admission and production of its disruptive potential , a disruption in and of the very terms of its construction . |
| 22 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 23 | But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust , which John of Salisbury so clearly represents , is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found . |
| 24 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 25 | Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base . |
| 26 | ‘ My guess is at least a couple of thousand . ’ |
| 27 | With a transplant there is at least a chance that the victim will walk away from the hospital and enjoy a period of tolerable life ( slim though that chance may be ) . |
| 28 | If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements . |
| 29 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there are vast numbers of planets in the Universe , so there is at least a possibility that , somewhere , such a lifeform exists . |