Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun prp] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controversy concerning the bilateral relationship between Britain and the USA was a symptom of this wider problem , which came to involve competition from new airlines — especially from the third world and developing countries , rising fuel prices , and deregulation policies . |
| 2 | Other countries , including West Germany and Japan , are following , and the UK is a world leader in research , though our country 's usual secrecy has kept it out of the headlines . |
| 3 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 4 | Lewis is a wilderness of bog and loch , Harris abounds in bog interspaced by bare rock , cliffs and blockfields , and boulder-strewn mountains , and the Uists are a mosaic of lochs and bogs , bordered on the west by a fertile coastal strip . |
| 5 | It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found . |
| 6 | The Lake District might boast summits that are , on average , 500ft higher , and the crags of Snowdonia may well be more numerous and forbidding , but the Mournes are a challenge for other reasons . |
| 7 | Plays in the Globe were in the open air and always had to be in daylight , but the Blackfriars was a building with a roof . |
| 8 | Napoleon himself had plenty to do , but a Napoleon is a member of a conceptual class of people who are like each other ; and likeness , the ‘ unseemly likeness ’ of The Double , is fraught throughout Dostoevsky . |