Example sentences of "is a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a dairy displaying ancient implements , a chemists shop with articles on display taken from two former chemists shops of the town ; a boot and shoemakers shop and a schoolroom to name just a few of the varied and intriguing glimpses into the life of past ages . |
| 2 | PLATINUM is a metal possessing many different connotations . |
| 3 | Marian Page , of Keep Death Off Our Roads , said : ‘ It seems there is a law to protect this drink-driver but not his little victim . |
| 4 | Where nutrition is a problem causing healing to be slow and prolonged . |
| 5 | For example , in ‘ banana ’ , the letter ‘ a ’ is a convention representing three different sounds all with an ‘ a ’ quality about them . |
| 6 | The Chinese Wall is a self styled regulatory mechanism aimed at stemming the flow of material information from one department in a conglomerate to another and resolving the legal problems associated with conflicts of interest generally . |
| 7 | This is a solder attaching two discs of silver foil cupped around the copper core like the foil wrappers around a chocolate penny . |
| 8 | It is a mistake to suppose that abolition of the licensing system would now mean an excessive number of houses started , or a soaring of prices , or the cessation of council house building . |
| 9 | Jennifer Coates suggests it is a mistake to treat single-sex and mixed-sex interaction in the same terms . |
| 10 | It is a mistake to describe all such elderly people together since they originate from many quite different countries . |
| 11 | Answer : it is a mistake to ask such questions , because they lead you into the murky borderland between history and myth , where the evidence is fragmentary and the fragments point in different directions . |
| 12 | They have concluded that it is a mistake to approach monetary union by gradually stiffening the ERM . |
| 13 | First , it is a mistake to imagine that access to tobacco for children is an entirely discrete subject . |
| 14 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 15 | Public health medicine is a goal driven medical specialty . |
| 16 | One solution that can be used in such an emergency is a home made internal filter which can be made in any size for next to no outlay . |
| 17 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 18 | Restoration is a field requiring exceptional skills and qualifications . |
| 19 | We must conclude then that , at the very least , a conditioned inhibitor is a stimulus having motivational properties that a latent inhibitor lacks ; only in a very restricted sense , therefore , can the latter be regarded as an instance of the former . |
| 20 | Trying to stop another huge build up of travellers in one area is a subject keeping several police forces across the region occupied . |
| 21 | It is early days yet , but it would seem that deep within this free-standing enterprise is a determination to achieve long-term success . |
| 22 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 23 | For the most part , the PC 's central processor is used to perform the calculations that end up as pretty pictures on your monitor , but there is a way to take some of the load off the CPU . |
| 24 | ‘ But there is a way to break this down , to dissolve it — oh yes indeed — to unlock the Motive Force . |
| 25 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit linked single premium life assurance policy that gives your money access to the growth potential of the stock market over the next five years , free of basic rate tax and all Capital Gains Tax . |
| 26 | But the most extraordinary aspect of this portal is that there is a cottage sitting right on top of it , flanked by neo-Gothic turrets . |
| 27 | The goal is a state containing eight assertions of the forms |
| 28 | The Information memorandum ( or ‘ corporate profile ’ ) is a document containing confidential information about the business to be sold . |
| 29 | Er , another useful piece of documentation , is a diagram listing all the files that you 've got in your system . |
| 30 | It is a handicap having 26 Latin letters for forty-odd English sounds . |