Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] a [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , the team are going through a temporary loss of form and that is not what you pay to see but , remember , football is a business not an entertainment . |
| 2 | Some researchers , Sarah Smilanski in particular ( 1968 ) , have attempted to show that some underprivileged children can not engage in play , but lack of concentration is a symptom not a cause . |
| 3 | A boat is a boat not an airport hotel . |
| 4 | Midlife is a time when the results of bad posture can cause trouble . |
| 5 | ( iii ) By the interrelationship of the rent review clause and other clauses in the lease The classic case of the interrelationship of the rent review clause and other clauses in the lease making time of the essence is a case where the tenant has an option to determine the term by the service of a break notice . |
| 6 | Official committees of enquiry tended to duck the task of too detailed an account of the stuff of public service , falling back on the Pilkington Committee 's observation that ‘ good broadcasting is a practice not a prescription ’ ( Pilkington , 1962 , p. 12 ) . |
| 7 | For ethical positivism law is a contrivance not a discovery of men . |
| 8 | A bill of exchange is a certificate whereby the issuer ( the borrower ) promises to pay a certain amount of money on some specified future date . |
| 9 | However , for our purposes a takeover is a transaction whereby a person or group of people obtains sufficient voting rights in a public company to enable that person or group to control the company . |
| 10 | The retention of title is an arrangement whereby the seller of goods retains title to the goods until at least the buyer of the goods pays for them . |
| 11 | In Suffolk , we are particularly glad that Customs and Excise has at last been persuaded that horse-racing is an industry not a hobby , and that it will adjust its VAT demands accordingly . |
| 12 | A family centre is a place where a child and his parents or those caring for him may go for occupational , social or recreational activities , or for advice , guidance or counselling . |
| 13 | It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly . |
| 14 | We believe training is an investment not a burden . |
| 15 | from two , nine is two and that number is a minus so the answer 's going to be a minus , so it 's gon na be ? |
| 16 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 17 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 18 | I think the equipment gets in the way of creativity — photography is an art not a craft , you should MAKE pictures not just take them . ’ |
| 19 | The field is a place where the farmer comes to work ; he plants and fertilises and waters and weeds and reaps . |
| 20 | The only other type of clause which operates to shift liability is a counter-indemnity whereby the innocent party ( " indemnifier " ) indemnifies the party in default ( " indemnitee " ) for any claim made in respect of death or personal injury caused by the indemnitee 's own negligence . |
| 21 | Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman carries a child with the intention of handing it over to another woman after its birth . |
| 22 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |