Example sentences of "is [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back page has a strip called Haggis , which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures . |
| 2 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 3 | It is about a mutual seeking in which one person ( the director ) , mature and skilled in his/her ministry , is alongside another ( the directee ) in his/her pilgrimage towards Christian maturity and that integration in which the inner and outer person become united . |
| 4 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 5 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
| 6 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 7 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 8 | The story is about a new chemical process which eats toxic waste . |
| 9 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 10 | This parable is about a Jewish wedding . |
| 11 | One could say that it is a more specific interpretation of the original proposition since it is about a particular kind of running . |
| 12 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 13 | That 's like full of about dozen or so papers each one I think , if it 's the book I 'm thinking of , is about a different community or a different language er so you might find some information about Samoa where there 's a different societal hierarchical structure . |
| 14 | This paper is about a feminist philosopher , Luce Irigaray , whose work raises particular difficulties for the Anglo-Saxon reader unfamiliar with the Continental tradition of philosophy . |
| 15 | If the disagreement is about a trivial matter it will be forgotten . |
| 16 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 17 | On the realistic level , the play is about a universal architectural dilemma : how to achieve a balance between conservation and civic improvement . |
| 18 | Three days later , a front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Star headlined THE FOX 'S LAIR — A COP 'S HOME He lived with Pc during terror reign is about a named police constable ( with a photograph of his house on the front page of the newspaper ) who ‘ let the evil sex monster lodge at his luxury four bedroom house . |
| 19 | There are too many schools where the ‘ management style ’ approaches this extreme , even if this is as a perceived necessity forced upon an unwilling or unwitting head/governing body by the pressures and pace of change . |
| 20 | Erm I think we 're er er we 're quite clear at the moment that the correct erm interpretation of it from our point of view is as a fixed asset investment and unless something changes in the er constitution of the company , erm although it may be erm the guiding thing become profitable I think one 's got to play by the rules and the rules at the moment say it is n't one . |
| 21 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 22 | But it is as a superb teacher , over some forty years , that Fenton owes his prominence . |
| 23 | Perhaps the best way to describe him is as a typical West Indian batsman , fundamentally very reliable and dependable yet always looking to attack if possible , always full of attractive stroke-play . |
| 24 | C The property is sold on the footing that the permitted use thereof is as a private dwelling-house . |
| 25 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 26 | Though dreams of again becoming Greater Hungary live on , Hungary 's real future is as a small country beside a giant neighbour . |
| 27 | The rate I require is as a small trader . |
| 28 | Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds . |
| 29 | The most-talked-about end use is as a grandiose teaching machine . |
| 30 | Mithra 's other form , found in the Eastern as well as the Western world , is as a lion-headed monster around whose body a serpent is coiled . |