Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief is as individual as a fingerprint . |
| 2 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 3 | However motive power on summer Saturdays in the form of units is always short and a frequent occurrence this summer has been the appearance of buses in Aberystwyth as the 07.25 Birmingham Aberystwyth , and the 10.50 Aberystwyth to Machynlleth return working . |
| 4 | Five years later , and after an initial ‘ thrashing ’ by Birmingham for the British nomination , the bid is more substantial than a local headline , £2 million more , the Duke of Westminster and a dozen of Britain 's blue-chip companies and corporations each persuaded by Scott 's vision of a North-west renaissance to dip into their accounts for at least £100,000 . |
| 5 | Demonstrate that a non-convex efficient frontier is both sub-optimal and a transient phenomenon . |
| 6 | In fact the force is so great that a concentrated jet from the water is capable of cutting straight through concrete . |
| 7 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 8 | Erratic and staggered waking is more effective than a fixed waking schedule but both show only moderate effects and are not as effective as the bell and pad . |
| 9 | The whole scene is as lifeless as a huge painted canvas . |
| 10 | A good liar and a bold thief he may be , but on most counts Tutilo is as innocent as a babe . |
| 11 | that women 's paid work is both important and a long-term phenomenon . |
| 12 | ‘ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man ’ the saying goes — and so it may be , for the man can see neither . |
| 13 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |
| 14 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 15 | Context sensitive help is also available and a full manual is provided on disk . |
| 16 | Bow Valley 's management is equally certain that a gradual transition , rather than the wholesale re-engineering for which it opted , would not have transformed the firm 's information systems so effectively . |
| 17 | in the museum is as old as a Pharoah . |
| 18 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 19 | Remember that Fermi resonance is only possible when a fundamental and a second-order band have the same symmetry and are close together in energy . |
| 20 | ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit . |
| 21 | Deep commitment takes the form of a ‘ paradigm ’ , meaning both a set of very broad assumptions whose falsity is almost unthinkable and a set of institutional practices governing the current conduct of science . |
| 22 | The Pomagne is as safe as a Trevor Brooking driving offence . |
| 23 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 24 | If the money falls in law to be repaid , a direct order for its repayment is more appropriate than a declaration that it should repay it or an order setting aside a refusal to be repaid . |
| 25 | The entire site is well wooded and a sanctuary for badges and a profusion of primroses , wood anemones and bluebells in the appropriate seasons . |
| 26 | If not , the reagent is too acid and a further gram of mercuric nitrate added to produce a slight cloudiness should produce the yellow precipitate . |
| 27 | This point should not be pushed to perversity : the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse , and it certainly is not being quickly corrected . |
| 28 | The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us . |
| 29 | Today the climate is totally different and a number of us can make some money from athletics — enough , at least , to enable us to devote all our time to it . |
| 30 | This room is as cold as a cabin in the frozen woods , but it is not so cold as the heart of the person to whom I gave my love , my hope , my talent . |