Example sentences of "be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 5 December The Scotsman said : ’ Of course , upon devolution there would have to be an adjustment in spending : there is no dispute about that . ’ |
| 2 | If , however , the husband and wife already hold as tenants in common , and there is to be an adjustment in the extent of their respective interests , then , so far as the legal title is concerned , no alteration needs to be made . |
| 3 | Well they they will continue , but there will be an adjustment now to the charging of the school meals , because the joint budget did provide for another two hundred and fifty five thousand income for that reason , and erm the savings |
| 4 | This Nicholas would not allow : for it would be an interference , he maintained , with the duties of parents , godparents and parish priests . |
| 5 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 6 | It 's bad enough to be in prison for something you have n't done , but to be in prison and to be an ex-policeman as well is er something else . |
| 7 | Because , believe me , Andrew , there will be an apology . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But it seemed to be an apology . |
| 9 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself — not a chariot , war engine , etc and not a Mob that is already engaged with the enemy . |
| 10 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself , not a chariot , war engine etc , and not a Mob which is already engaged against the enemy . |
| 11 | That would be an abomination . |
| 12 | Pete Agnew on Visions of Johanna ( E1 ) at Bosigran — ‘ A bolt on that peerless sheet of granite would be an abomination ; a denial of the kind of people we are . ’ |
| 13 | A bolt on that peerless sheet of granite would be an abomination ; a denial of the kind of people we are . |
| 14 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 15 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 16 | The elementary requisites of fair comment are : — first , the matter must be of public interest ; secondly , it must be an expression of opinion based on proved facts ; thirdly , the comment must be fair ; and lastly , there must be no malice . |
| 17 | Sometimes , far less risk is involved : a prophecy will simply be an expression of God 's love for the congregation . |
| 18 | You will also have to be prepared to overlook sudden flashes of anger or periods of irritability which may seem to be aimed at you but which are much more likely to be an expression of her natural resentment of the disaster that has befallen her . |
| 19 | Living matter as well as so-called ‘ inert ’ matter is seen to be an expression of a formative universal field which in turn is regulated by even more subtle primary forces , Hoyle , Jeans and Raynor Johnson , as well as a host of visionaries have stated their belief that creation and the maintenance of the Universe rests upon a Universal Consciousness — a Creative Intelligence . |
| 20 | In the case just considered , social institutions could in principle be an expression of a pre-cultural disposition . |
| 21 | As psychologist Dr David Lewis explains , Laughter may sometimes be an expression of anxiety . |
| 22 | Just as The Waste Land had once been taken as the expression of a " disillusioned " generation , in spite of Eliot 's disavowals of any such intention , so " East Coker " seemed to be an expression of historical continuity at a time when it was most threatened : the retreat from France in May of that year aroused fears of a German invasion of England itself . |
| 23 | Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on . |
| 24 | Auto-sadistic activity , in which the individual inflicts pain on himself or herself , might equally be an expression of either tendency . |
| 25 | As one sister put it , ‘ our office needed to be an expression of who we were ’ . |
| 26 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |
| 27 | He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side . |
| 28 | This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention . |
| 29 | As she turned to walk on she shivered , affected by a chilliness that seemed to be an expression of her revulsion . |
| 30 | A solution would be an expression for p ( ) t , in terms of all the variables in the model which are predetermined or exogenous . |