Example sentences of "[adj] [be] a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 2 | Following this are a retrospective of Eva Hesse and a view of Carol Seborovski 's work . |
| 3 | Not sauntering but fanatically rooted to their hallowed places at the end of the ‘ Up ’ main platform in most big stations are to be found the train-spotters , living proof of George Orwell 's observation that the English are a nation of collectors , in this case of train numbers . |
| 4 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
| 5 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 6 | Should this be a matter of concern ? |
| 7 | Now granted that current account deficits bring downward pressure on a currency , should this be a source of concern for the authorites ? |
| 8 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 9 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 10 | Only for the statement that Molla Fenari turned over the kadilik of Bursa to his son , Yusuf Bali , as naib , does Husameddin offer any source , this being a signature of Molla Husrev 's on a copy of a originally drawn up in late Jumada II 821/late May-early June 1418 attesting that " it " had been written by " Mawlana Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali b. al-Mawla al-Fenari " . |
| 11 | This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a friend of Bheki , ’ said Mr Thabane . |
| 13 | This is a description of Mnemba Club , one of the private island paradises featured in CV Travel 's Different World brochure . |
| 14 | Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector . |
| 15 | A sale by a former husband to the former wife of property or his interest therein should incur no inheritance tax liability if at full value , but if a sale takes place at an under value on the basis that a benefit is intended this is a transfer of value for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 16 | Of those that did , the best is on the vaulted ceiling of what was a college chapel but is now a space occupied by a marble staircase , This is a Glory of Angels and was painted by the Neapolitan artist Giovan Battista Sassi who worked in the city during the early years of the eighteenth-century . |
| 17 | 13 This is a diagram of Emancia 's living room . |
| 18 | Well this is a land of losers . |
| 19 | This is a modification of depth first search which avoids finding all children of N straight away . |
| 20 | John McFall , Labour 's Scottish education spokesman , commented last night : ‘ This is a case of opt-out ministers rather than opt-out parents . |
| 21 | This is a case of Philip Morris-like disenfranchisement . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no doubt this is a case of retaliation from the princess . ’ |
| 23 | The majority of the fry are eaten but I think that this is a case of survival of the fittest in the confines of a community tank . |
| 24 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 25 | This is a case of hindsight 's a wonderful thing . |
| 26 | I am not sure if this is a case of Nature following Art , or the other way round , but the result is most satisfactory . |
| 27 | This is a case of proxy decision making , since it authorizes a named person to make treatment decisions on the patient 's behalf , once the patient is adjudged incompetent . |
| 28 | This is , hang on this is a part of Italy . |
| 29 | All this is a part of character building . |
| 30 | This is a part of Yorkshire where history runs deep . |