Example sentences of "[is] [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well . |
| 2 | Is theirs a permanent assignment , analogous to the job of the supervisory nurse in the hospital ? |
| 3 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 4 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 5 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 6 | The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community . |
| 7 | It has been pointed out that the location of those markets is itself a telling advantage to Scottish traders because they all have weak currencies ( the lira and peseta ) while former German and Dutch suppliers are forced to trade with the strongest ( the deutschmark and the guilder ) . |
| 8 | Despite this caveat , however , the frequency with which images of health , construction and " the growth of the new man " in the Soviet Union are contrasted with images of sickness , decay and decline in the capitalist West is itself a telling statement on the intellectual climate of the time . |
| 9 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 10 | At the same time the adrenalin surge is itself a strong feeling and any strong feeling can be a trigger factor in stimulating the urge to use other mood-altering substances or processes — It is therefore advisable for people in recovery from any form of addictive disease that they should avoid gambling and other forms of risk-taking as far as possible . |
| 11 | The concept of the individual actor is itself a political construction , highly charged and central to much western political practice ; it can be used , for instance , to give the impression that ‘ choice ’ is being exercised when analysis of the deeper political and economic structures would indicate that there is no real choice . |
| 12 | Whether pupils ' behaviour is itself a political statement or not , the aggressive forms impress themselves onto educational politics . |
| 13 | This documentation is itself a rich source of material for evaluation . |
| 14 | The duty to compensate the defamed person is itself a moral duty . |
| 15 | A UK parent company with wholly-owned subsidiaries is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of a US parent company whose securities are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 16 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 17 | Mr Mellor is no soft touch , as those within the industry who had to negotiate with him quickly discovered , but he is accessible to reason , and that is itself a great advance on what had been experienced before . |
| 18 | This is not to suggest that such observation is itself a straightforward method of investigation . |
| 19 | How much longer such presentation remains credible in the light of trends in cities such as New York , where there are at least 90,000 people sleeping on the streets and an annual budget deficit of around $500 million is itself a significant issue . |
| 20 | Weight loss is itself a rewarding consequence , but because you need to lose a fair amount of weight before it is really noticeable in terms of body shape , you will probably require extra rewards to keep you going . |
| 21 | When I obey or defy ‘ Face facts ’ , my welcoming or resisting of the facts is itself a psychological process in causal interaction with spontaneous inclination ; on the one hand emotional bias distorts judgement , on the other desire or aversion veers with additional information . |
| 22 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 23 | Resolving the question as to what are to be perceived as such costs and benefits is itself a hard task . |
| 24 | It is itself a marginal discourse , struggling for legitimacy . |
| 25 | Since the Second World War and as school libraries have become more common , public library user education for schoolchildren has become less overt , but nonetheless is still widely practised because user education is itself a growing concern in schools . |
| 26 | However , it is not always recognized that individuality is itself a cultural concept : there can be no private independent real person dissociated from the cultural values which define the society in which the individual lives . |
| 27 | Still , that most provinces have reached a stage where compensation of any form is under consideration is itself a remarkable turn of events . |
| 28 | This is itself a formulaic list ( cf. the Nun 's Priest 's Tale : VII : 2912 – 17 ) . |
| 29 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 30 | ( Here the interference by public authority is twofold since the council , which has initiated the suit , is itself a public authority . ) |