Example sentences of "[am/are] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 2 | So situations are reviewed and we do look at monitored traffic flows for example , we do look at our justifications and if there are reasons for a change we can go back , so it 's not irreversible by any means , that is the current committed preferred route however and I did n't want to give an indication that by changing the diagram we were saying everything 's opened up again , cos clearly we 've reached a stage that the County Council 's declared it 's a preferred route and that 's |
| 3 | All the activities suggested for video recording are activities with a language learning purpose which could of course be done without the presence of the camera . |
| 4 | But also of importance are returns to a factor , keeping the other constant . |
| 5 | There are calls for a defence review if the cuts go ahead . |
| 6 | There are calls for a strengthening of ‘ ideological work ’ among students with a stress on ‘ social practice ’ , i.e. doing work in the community during the forthcoming summer vacations . |
| 7 | The present case suggests that not only are counsel under a duty to point out errors they observe but , citing Donoghue , that ‘ it would be helpful ’ if counsel for the prosecution were to make a check list of essential directions and draw attention to any omissions before the retirement of the jury . |
| 8 | It is in fact also suggested that there are dangers for a landlord in this clause in that the acceptance of rent by the bank after a breach of covenant by the tenant could waive the breach . |
| 9 | Generally , I would agree that honesty is the best policy , but there are times in a marriage when it is better to keep things to yourself and this is one of them . |
| 10 | Generally , I would agree that honesty is the best policy , but there are times in a marriage when it is better to keep things to yourself and this is one of them . |
| 11 | I am essentyale on a murdre scene ; |
| 12 | I am part of a group of individuals from various professions who are interested in developing a National Children 's Legal Centre in Ireland . |
| 13 | ‘ I am busy on my own work : I am part of a team , legging it around London , working undercover . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 15 | There are proposals for a number of bypasses which are relatively limited , erm throughout the majority of its length it will remain single carriageway . |
| 16 | Already , there are plans for a brand new campus on at Groundwell . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , there are plans for a musical , it is true we are talking about doing one with Kylie and we all very much want it to happen , ’ admitted Pete Waterman . |
| 18 | Swift 's dislike of monosyllables and Dryden 's avoidance of final prepositions " are cases of a writer 's preferences being guided by a general sense of linguistic propriety , of what is good English " . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , long before Hirsch , C. S. Lewis wrote that many discussions about ‘ literature ’ are discussions of a nonentity ; for Lewis , literature was about as non-specific a term as ‘ talking ’ or ‘ utterance ’ . |
| 20 | ( a ) The individual solicitor Practising Certificates By s1 of the Solicitors Act the essential qualifications for practice as a solicitor are admission as a solicitor , enrolment and the possession of a current practising certificate . |
| 21 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 22 | Remember that you are part of a whole and that you are just as important as anyone else — but not more so . |
| 23 | The language and the inner mind are part of a whole that makes a creature what it is . |
| 24 | The killings are part of a campaign of intimidation and elimination of supporters of the political opposition . |
| 25 | My thesis will be that events that we commonly call miracles are not supernatural , but are part of a spectrum of more-or-less improbable natural events . |
| 26 | In the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea , we are part of a consortium that has a 20% interest in the Azeri field , where about 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil are thought to exist . |
| 27 | Clockwise from top left An early 20th-century papier-maché lion which growls at the tug of a metal ring ; a late 19th-century version of Happy Families ; tin soldiers perpetually fighting the Battle of Waterloo ; a heads-and-bodies-and-tails book in which the metamorphoses are part of a story ; a cottager 's doll from a village antiques shop ; a fish pond in which the lines are baited with a magnet ; a zoetrope , which reveals a series of moving images as the drum revolves ; a tin man c.1910 who raises his hat when you pull his string . |
| 28 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 29 | However , what evidence there is highlights a number of ways in which — relative to older whites — black and Asian elders are disadvantaged ( in income , housing , health and access to services ) , and are part of a minority group which clearly suffers racial discrimination . |
| 30 | The last two are part of a joint-venture set up earlier this month with French publisher Hachette , which also produces Sky . |