Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air .
2 Employees possibly feel they do not reach their full potential in the job because promotion is scarce and the job is not stimulating either physically or mentally .
3 The section to the next town of Shanklin is built-up but the route improves dramatically on the way to and out of Ventnor .
4 The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ .
5 Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller .
6 Whether personal or commercial , business will be terminated where their is little or no likelihood of profit .
7 Second , there is little or no cooperation with other US museums .
8 There is little or no deterrent for these fiendish acts .
9 There is little or no discussion of principle .
10 Sometimes there is little or no overlap between the scores of individuals in Group A and the individuals in Group B ( see L. Milroy 1980 : 161 for an example ) , but more often there is considerable overlap .
11 Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . "
12 There is little or no sense of diachrony or process in the work of Barthes or Lévi-Strauss .
13 There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals .
14 The fact that there is little or no evidence that a gift is operating does not necessarily mean , however , that it is not present .
15 Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville .
16 However , there is little or no evidence for this .
17 Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations .
18 There is little or no evidence to support this argument .
19 There is little or no realization amongst reformers , however , that any effective change in budgetary relationships must necessarily alter the outcomes of the budgetary process … proposed reforms inevitably contain important implications for the system ; that is , for the ‘ who gets what ’ of government decisions .
20 Because of this there is little or no possibility that somebody somewhere else will recognize the merits of the actions you are taking , or the opportunity that you have uncovered , and of their own free will line up and help you .
21 Finally , as some of them are geographically isolated , there is little or no possibility of merging with other institutions .
22 Motability moan IF A disabled driver requires a car under the Motability scheme with a manual transmission then there is little or no deposit required .
23 If there is little or no bias it does n't matter whereabouts on the line you start .
24 Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam .
25 In others there is little or no disagreement .
26 There is little or no tradition of democratic government in these new states and the influence of Western liberal democratic traditions is not always likely to be great .
27 He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ .
28 Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement , and generally occur at night .
29 Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher .
30 But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer .
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