Example sentences of "is a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul , the one on the left is Kenneth Baker the one on the right is a policeman neither of those is a junior doctor . |
| 2 | This is a Daihatsu Four Trak which is totally in tune with Ian 's sporting pursuits of shooting and fishing but was totally at odds with his previous run-about — a BMW 352i . |
| 3 | The organisers of Telethon say they do consult disabled people about the event and feel such an opinion is a minority one . |
| 4 | Now , we 've got ten copies of the video to give away to the runners'-up , but the star prize is a weekend fit for a hero — or heroine — in London . |
| 5 | Ken Colyer Trust Easter Parade Here is a weekend tailor-made for the true believer in British trad . |
| 6 | ‘ I doubt if her attitude to Johnny was much different to Sarah 's attitude to her boy , but the old lady is a sight cleverer than Sarah ; she did n't let it show . ’ |
| 7 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 8 | There is a factor common to the discussion of the three issues outlined in this section . |
| 9 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 10 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 11 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 12 | ‘ TWENTY-FIVE Years of Innovation ’ is a concept most students at present at Stirling University find rather difficult to grasp . |
| 13 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 14 | One rather novel feature , fitted by David Fenton just after the aircraft came onto the UK register , is a Rockwell wing-leveller system which is linked to the turn & slip and the VOR . |
| 15 | Valtr Komarek , aged 59 , is a deputy prime minister . |
| 16 | One of the largest new contracts is a £9 million deal with the City of Westminster to provide a school meals service . |
| 17 | ‘ Look before you leap ’ is a maxim impulsive people fail to follow . |
| 18 | Droit de suite is a levy payable on the sale of any paintings , sculpture or other work of art . |
| 19 | Glossy , healthy looking hair is a must this year . |
| 20 | Either way , a hand-held video game is a must this summer — if you do n't want sand kicked in your face . |
| 21 | Where the victim of the threats , abuses or insults is a law abiding citizen who is unlikely to be provoked into using violence , an offence may nevertheless be committed under this limb of the subsection . |
| 22 | All these three administer substantially the same law , which , by the time of Edward I , is already called Common Law , because it is a law common to the whole of England ; and it is becoming a fairly definite body of rules , capable of growth and expansion in various directions , but still with well-marked boundaries which can not be transgressed . |
| 23 | Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies . |
| 24 | So I do n't deny a an an access to housin or an affordable housing problem , quite the contrary , but I say it is a policy which is a it is a problem capable of solution by local plan policy , not by wholesale allocation of land as he advocates . |
| 25 | There is a problem that way , as he can not take his dogs over the border . |
| 26 | The other problem is terminological and is a problem familiar to anthropologists . |
| 27 | This is a problem inherent in any subject in which the brightest colours belong to the distant parts of the picture 's spatial structure . |
| 28 | Not least is a problem well-known in current image databases : the difficulty of ensuring all data elements are held in a consistent and suitable data format . |
| 29 | There are many excellent books on general fishkeeping , and specialist books on cichlids , available nowadays , and if expense is a problem these can be ordered from the local public library , either free of charge of for a very small fee . |
| 30 | The relationship between wealth , occupation and birth-determined social characteristics such as caste is a problem common to much research on South Asia . |