Example sentences of "[is] [prep] a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , therefore , two key features : first , that the patient is of an age the law regards as proper , and second , that he is of sound mind . |
| 2 | It 's like a kick the cat syndrome , is n't it . |
| 3 | If the plaintiff is under a disability the money will remain on deposit until the settlement is approved . |
| 4 | We were sitting watchin' the news , the world 's in a mess The poor and the hungry , a world of distress Herpes , Aids , the Middle East at full throttle Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle . |
| 5 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 6 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 7 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 8 | It is in a sense the balance sheet of our human existence , the closing of the accounts . |
| 9 | The editor of Wisden is in a sense the conscience of cricket . |
| 10 | The second issue is in a sense the counterpart of the first , for it concerns the proper addressee in the state of destination . |
| 11 | The third problem is in a sense the most important , albeit a corollary of the two preceding points : the application of substantive principles will require the proper articulation of a background political theory which will serve to explain why a particular principle is said to produce or demand a particular result in a given case . |
| 12 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 13 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 14 | This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation . |
| 15 | Another statement quoted — and this , to me , is in a way the most shocking — was : ‘ It was obviously just part of their job … |
| 16 | In his ‘ Introduction to the structural analysis of narrative ’ Barthes makes claims very similar to those of Todorov about the homology between language and narrative , with particular reference to the sentence : ‘ a narrative is a long sentence , just as every constative sentence is in a way the rough outline of a short narrative ’ ( 1977b : 84 ) . |
| 17 | GIFT HORSE is without a doubt the finest Ocean 60 . |
| 18 | This is without a doubt the greatest drug movie ever made . |
| 19 | Big show of the night is without a doubt the Mudhoney/Flaming Lips/Eugenius bash at the Roseland Ballroom . |
| 20 | Castle Master is without a doubt the finest of the Freescape games . |
| 21 | The English have always been a little lighter on their feet , a little more amateurish , but the thing that has been happening , I think , is without a doubt the relativization of religion . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's without a doubt the greatest scorer hockey has ever seen . |
| 23 | Where space is at a premium the 268S also scores highly because it 's rack mounting and takes up only 3U of space — ideal if your home studio doubles as bedroom/study/broom cupboard . |