Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . |
| 2 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |
| 3 | A corollary of this is that the head office needs to have expert information and skills , needs to be an active participant in the formulation of strategies , and must therefore own a narrowly specialised core cluster of firmlets . |
| 4 | But a corollary of this is that it is in principle impossible to describe accurately any x as numerically identical at any given stage of its existence , until , that is , its life-cycle has been completed , for its numerical identity depends upon all its properties . |
| 5 | A corollary of this is that the risks which people face of being victims of serious crime are remarkably small . |
| 6 | ONE of the joys of being responsible for a column like this is that the search for news creates opportunities to become involved in developments which are normally outside the availability of most enthusiasts . |
| 7 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
| 8 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 9 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 10 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 11 | A consequence of this is that the rate of spreading along a ridge will be a function of the sine of the angular distance from the pole of rotation ; the greater the distance from the pole of rotation : the greater the rate of spreading ( up to an angle of 90 ) . |
| 12 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the things you learn in an exercise like that is that the odds are stacked very much against the aggressor . |
| 14 | An example of this is that under most standard forms the supervising officer has wide-ranging powers to issue instructions . |
| 15 | An example of this is that each stitch pattern section ( A , B , C and so on ) , has a limit of approximately 16,000 bits . |
| 16 | An extension of this is that people do not like being insulted . |
| 17 | An implication of this is that the resulting forms of work organisation , and hence the type of technology developed , reflects the compromises management have had to negotiate with workers . |
| 18 | An implication of this is that the contents of the operand field may be modified in accordance with the addressing mode field before being used as a literal value ; this allows some alteration of the value ( for example , by adding the contents of an index register ) without altering the instruction . |
| 19 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |