Example sentences of "is [adv] a [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 | Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 9 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 10 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |
| 16 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
| 19 | 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 . |