Example sentences of "is a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major portion is a touring group of Eighteen Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall , Norfolk which celebrates their saving for the nation by a consortium of museums and galleries — assisted by the National Heritage Memorial Fund — following their sale by auction in 1991 . |
| 2 | There is a dairy farm and two farmers who keep pigs quite close to the centre of the village , but the larger farms with their pigs and sheep and production of cereal crops are on the outskirts of the village . |
| 3 | The video card is a Paradise SuperVGA with 1Mb of RAM . |
| 4 | However , when running diagnostic software I get a report that the chip is a Paradise SVGA chip . |
| 5 | An ad valorem tax is a percentage tax , levied not on volume but on value ; e.g. in 1993 VAT is 17.5% of sales price , and corporation tax is 33% of assessable profits for larger companies and 25% for smaller companies . |
| 6 | This is a frequency count . |
| 7 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 8 | I believe this is a shopping list . |
| 9 | Everyone involved in the project is a steam enthusiast and most have engineering experience . |
| 10 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 11 | Moorsbus operates every Sunday until the end of September and there is a Discovery Walk linked to the service every day it runs . |
| 12 | Also available is a discovery pack as well as teachers ' packs and worksheets for children of various ages . |
| 13 | The new Powerstation 23T is a workstation model with a Gt1x graphics adaptor with appropriate cable , 400Mb disk , keyboard , mouse and a new Powerdisplay 16S standard at $8,500 ; without the display it 's a 23W at $6,700 . |
| 14 | The new Powerstation 23T is a workstation model with a Gt1x graphics adaptor with appropriate cable , 400Mb disk , keyboard , mouse and a new Powerdisplay 16S standard at $8,500 ; without the display it 's a 23W at $6,700 . |
| 15 | Just lacked the normal sense of urgency … maybe this is a deliberatle ploy by Wilko too ? |
| 16 | At this stage the procedures are generally the same as for an ordinary cause and you have 366 days , or 367 days if it is a leap year , to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
| 17 | 1992 is a Leap Year — which means that February has 29 days instead of the usual 28 . |
| 18 | A one million pound appeal has been launched by Oxfam which hopes to cash in on the fact that 1992 is a Leap Year . |
| 19 | A one million pound appeal has been launched by Oxfam which hopes to cash in on the fact that 1992 is a Leap Year . |
| 20 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 21 | The best that can be achieved then , assuming that the guarantee was given after 11 April 1978 , is a CGT loss claim of £10,000 under s 136(4) ( 11 ) , CGTA 1979 . |
| 22 | The *POLYGON command is a GIMMS instruction to fetch the file whose unit number is 10 , read from it the line segment data , and link the line segments together to form polygons . |
| 23 | The grizzled Skipper is a graphics accelerator card that replaces the standard video driver installed in your computer . |
| 24 | The new XP338P has a claimed performance rating of 105,000 Xstones — Xstones is a graphics benchmark — and clocks 100,000 vectors , 10,000 flat-shared triangles and 5,000 Gouraud-shared triangles per second . |
| 25 | His sister is a Jehovah 's Witness , his mother is a fortune teller and his girlfriend is obsessed with the occult . |
| 26 | ‘ This is a go project , Howard . |
| 27 | There is a crash programme to enlarge the terminal , but Tegel is in the urban area , and its capacity is never likely to exceed nine million . |
| 28 | A major benefit of ISDN is that it is a dial-up service , just like the ordinary phone network . |
| 29 | This is a monitoring function , a comparison of the situation that exists with that which might have been expected . |
| 30 | As we have said , this is a monitoring function . |