Example sentences of "is [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 3 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 4 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 5 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 6 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 7 | Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer ! |
| 8 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 9 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 10 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 11 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 12 | And as you may know , within IBM the line manager is also the personnel manager for the people reporting to him . |
| 13 | The Scots language is taught in a full first-year course as well as in English Language 1 and 2 , and there is also an honours course devoted entirely to it . |
| 14 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 15 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 16 | If you do not receive one , you should ask the person in the company responsible for the pension scheme — this is often the personnel manager — to supply you with a booklet . |
| 17 | But if you start talking about taking some of the cash from the fund , you 've got to tell the clients it could affect the cover that they 've got , because it is n't a savings policy . |
| 18 | what , oh , erm , there 's something I 've just thought of though , when they wear the er camouflage things , is that when they wear the maroon belt round ? , is n't the kaki belt with the dress uniform ? |
| 19 | ‘ That is n't the three-times table ! ’ |
| 20 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |
| 21 | Inconsistency is when the personnel director , faced with a request for an increase in pay , says " 4 per cent maximum " and then concedes 4½ per cent under threat of strike . |
| 22 | This is why the telecommunications industry in the US is now finalising a scheme to use pooled money , with government administration , to pay for the training of foreign engineers . |
| 23 | That is why the arms-for-Iraq case has caused such interest at Westminster , even if it has not in the rest of the country . |
| 24 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 25 | So it is imperative that the quality of service is extended into the washroom facilities , which is why the Facilities Manager specified Rentokil Healthcare Services . |
| 26 | This is where the Arts Council has stepped in with the argument that if the scheme promotes a form of art which does not conform to their qualitative criteria , it should be abolished . |
| 27 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 28 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |
| 29 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
| 30 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |