Example sentences of "[vb -s] [is] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 2 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 3 | He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it . |
| 4 | The centre of the Sun where fusion occurs is at a temperature of around fifteen million degrees but practical fusion needs a much higher temperature than this — hundreds of millions of degrees . |
| 5 | The father of modern psychology , Sigmund Freud believed ‘ … psychiatry is not possible near or above the age of 50 ; the elasticity of the mental processes on which the treatment depends is as a rule lacking — old people are not educable . ’ |
| 6 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 7 | The story the DTI report tells is of a highly successful small businessman who found himself out of his depth in the big league into which he was propelled by the Manpower acquisition . |
| 8 | It explains that ‘ the picture that emerges is of a group of people who were keen to engage in farming on their own account and who established themselves on a smallholding , often many years ago , but who have failed to progress beyond this first step in the farming ladder . |
| 9 | The picture that emerges is of a man both maddening and engaging in his inner spiritual drive , and in his search for a way of living appropriate to its demands . |
| 10 | The picture that emerges is of a grim tide of sociological , economic and policy factors that has simply washed many young people to the fringes of society . |
| 11 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 12 | Decide if the answer that the person gives is as a Parent , an Adult or a Child . |
| 13 | Even a small park with a few facilities can achieve ***** if what it offers is to an exceptionally high quality standard . |
| 14 | A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state . |
| 15 | The seventh direction is a ‘ Turn around ’ which John Davies suggests is like a stop in some sentence or dance . |
| 16 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 17 | Even a 1 Key holiday home can be Highly Commended if what it provides is to a very high standard . |
| 18 | Please remember that even a Listed or 1 Crown place , or 1 Key holiday home , can still be Highly Commended if what it provides is to an exceptionally high standard . |
| 19 | Such analysis provides is with a relatively precise , and theoretically sound methodology for dealing with perceivable changes in character . |