Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme . |
| 2 | Here the break is more explicitly towards a particular style or more general cultural position . |
| 3 | Where two agencies put forward conflicting options , the search is inevitably on for a third option , which may involve negotiation . |
| 4 | The second is how to elicit people 's preferences , and though score sheets , questionnaires and semantic difference scales have been widely used , the search is still on for a more effective method ( Propst and Buyhoff , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist . |
| 6 | The A forty-one though , at the Banbury spur is still down to a single lane between the junction with the A forty-six Longbridge Island and the A four five two , Grey 's Mallory Island , that 's for M forty construction work . |
| 7 | ‘ It is regretted that the council is no longer in a position to continue to finance this service . |
| 8 | Given that individuals undertake exchange voluntarily , it is presumed that they must thereby be no worse off and that at least one party to the exchange is better off as a result . |
| 9 | An RAF inquiry is underway tonight after a parachutist plunged into the crowd during a display . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , even here the shift is noticeably away from a hierarchically controlled model of ‘ Catholic Action ’ , as it had come to be called , to a far more diversified one . |
| 11 | Mr Grey 's business is not only as a bookseller but also as ‘ the newsagent , the supermarket , the hairdresser and the gift shop in the arts centre ’ . |
| 12 | Newco is certainly not in a position to confer any benefit on management , but rather the managers create their own opportunity by forming Newco and subscribing the initial shares in it . |
| 13 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 14 | ‘ Your divisional head is here purely as an observer . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the human head is structurally rather like a tank of liquid and the consequences when it is struck by a bullet are well-known . |
| 16 | The PR person is very often in a cleft stick between how he knows the media will react to his story and the sometimes almost mindless enthusiasm of his client or boss . |
| 17 | If he treats her from the beginning like a woman , elderly perhaps , but still entitled to every courtesy and consideration and some of his undivided attention , and if she treats him with affection and interest , voicing her pride in his achievements , and turning to him for advice on various matters , their relationship is usually off to a good start . |
| 18 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 19 | It would not serve my purpose to make that an illustration of Jesus taking my place or yours , because God the Father is clearly not like a Nazi war criminal . |
| 20 | The French Texel is too much like a Mule — too big and too long . |
| 21 | A Home Office enquiry is underway tonight into an escape attempt by a prisoner who was being moved between jails . |
| 22 | The mountainous half of the island is almost perpetually under a thick cloud . |
| 23 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 24 | She wiped them surreptitiously and repeated her question : ‘ Surely a woman is better off without a man ? ’ |
| 25 | Their success is partly down to a front three of David Hopper , the Australian prop who had a spell at Leicester ; Richard Wareham , the former Leicester and England Under-21 international , and Karl Ashfield . |
| 26 | There has not been a reduction since last September and the Government is no longer in a hurry to cut again . |
| 27 | The whole House will be very relieved to know that such a matter is not entirely in a Minister 's hands . |
| 28 | If the lease is to be registered at HM Land Registry and the demised property is part only of a building , then unless the land can be accurately identified on the General Map a plan must be provided ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r54 ) . |
| 29 | Where the property is part only of a building the draftsman should also consider whether some further visual description is necessary . |
| 30 | Where the demised property is part only of a building the right should extend to entering the demised property for the purpose of repairing other parts of the building not included in the demise . |