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 | 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 . |
7 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
8 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
9 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |
14 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
17 | 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 . |