Example sentences of "is [prep] a [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 2 | ’ The Church is like a picture a lovely picture in a bad frame . ’ |
| 3 | The landscape traversed by the Turners is in a sense a literary one ( hence indicators like Poe Cove ) , but Barth is also careful to specify their seamanship with realistic accuracy . |
| 4 | Schubert 's unfinished C major Sonata is in a sense a piano score of an orchestral work , but then of course , as with the ‘ Wanderer ’ Fantasy in the same key , the point is to turn the piano into an orchestra , with the help of longer pedals and a wider dynamic range . |
| 5 | It is in a sense a perversion , by which instead of attending to situations in order to respond to them intelligently , one treats awareness itself as an end . |
| 6 | The Holy Trinity is in a sense a communitarian concept , for God dwells in perfect communal relationship . |
| 7 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 8 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 9 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 10 | The cooking of this mid-Rhône country is in a sense a cross-roads cooking . |
| 11 | It gives what is in a sense a richer account of a mental episode by including relations with other strictly mental episodes and facts-these too , of course , to be understood relationally . |
| 12 | Moderator it may seem a little strange to resist this er addendum but I do so really because er it 's never a good idea to er to be amending what is in a sense a liturgical piece of work on the floor of the house . |
| 13 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 14 | Erotic rapture , it transpires , is in a sense a reptilian condition . |
| 15 | It is in a sense a part of the issue of children 's language development and links can and should be made . |
| 16 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 17 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 18 | This chapter is in a sense a crucial point in the course : although the segmental material of the preceding chapters is important as a foundation , the relationship between strong and weak syllables and the overall prosodic characteristics of words and sentences are essential to intelligibility , and most of the remaining chapters of the course are concerned with such matters . |
| 19 | The Return of the king is in a way a parallel , in another a reproach , to Macbeth . |
| 20 | This is in a way a companion volume , in its emphasis on the geographers , to his much earlier book , Lectures on the Geography of Greece , based on lectures given in Oxford in 1872 ( 1873 ) . |
| 21 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |