Example sentences of "is [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 2 | For those of you who do n't know where we 're eating , it 's in , it 's in Hall , which is about a mile and a half |
| 3 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 4 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 5 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 6 | The story is about an orphan and an American billionaire . |
| 7 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 8 | Although he has found a new cutting edge to his game , after managing just five goals in his previous 104 league games , it is as a creator that Alex Ferguson most cherishes him . |
| 9 | Its purpose is as a tracking and diagnostic tool . |
| 10 | Our interest in Madonna is as a phenomenon and almost academic . |
| 11 | His principal claim to recognition is as a scholar and historian of Parliament , using the original documents to which his official positions at the Tower and at Westminster gave him access . |
| 12 | ‘ At the end of the day , it is as a songwriter that I would most like to be remembered ’ |
| 13 | ‘ At the end of the day , it is as a songwriter that I would most like to be remembered . |
| 14 | It is as a writer and ‘ rare conductor of souls ’ , rather than as a bishop , that he may be commemorated . |
| 15 | It is as a consumer that he is aware of the slowly widening gap between his own standard of living and that of other workers . |
| 16 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 17 | But it is as a kicker that he has made his name . |
| 18 | A Bertola Pale Dry Fino or Manzanilla is worth a try and proves that this well known house produces more than the famous Bertola Cream . |
| 19 | This too is worth a try if it 's not obvious what else might be amiss , but you have to be very careful when dusting off the components . |
| 20 | Angeldust is worth a star or even two , and Smurf and Gnome are hard at their given grades and may be E3 . |
| 21 | Thank you very much for the balaclava pattern , unfortunately my machine is a Toyota 858 so this is no use as it is for a Pfaff or Passap Duomatic . |
| 22 | The usual practice in most offices is for a post-clerk or secretary to open all the incoming mail and to place it in the in-tray of the appropriate recipient . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Where the action is for a debt or liquidated demand ( including interest to payment in , if claimed ) and the defendant pays the claim and interest to the plaintiff within fourteen days of service exclusive of the day of service , together with summons costs , then the action is stayed and the defendant is liable to no further costs unless the court otherwise orders or unless the plaintiff is under disability ( Ord 11 , r 2(1) , ( 2 ) , ( 3b ) , ( 4 ) ; Ord 10 , r 1 ) . |
| 24 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 25 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 26 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 27 | It is for a bass and contains brief interjections by a four-part chorus of schoolboys , who then dance a bourrée with their teacher . ) |
| 28 | Today catalogues raisonnés are often divided into two ; one volume is for an introduction and plates , while the other has the detailed catalogue . |
| 29 | ‘ Skylark ’ is a dark and dangerous love story , where the most dangerous place in the world is between a man and a woman . |
| 30 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |