Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another explanation of the vicar 's selfishness is possible , namely that he does not live up to his religion and is therefore a poor representative of it . |
| 2 | It was known locally as The Creamery and is now a house . |
| 3 | On the finance and legal side we have had some very good women at Channel 4 : Janet Walker , for example , now , I think , at Granada ; Kate Wilson , who was a lawyer and is now a senior lawyer . |
| 4 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
| 5 | In addition , being termed ‘ skilled ’ often simply means that the worker is carrying out a job traditionally performed by someone who has undertaken an apprenticeship and is therefore a craft worker by training . |
| 6 | He holds a diploma in land economics from Paisley College and is also a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 7 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
| 8 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 9 | However , most workers stress that rural deprivation is n't a function of rurality but is instead a product of the national social structure which according to Neate ( 1981 , 20–1 ) is then : |
| 10 | It may have been a domus inclusa but is now a coal hole . |
| 11 | It is a measure of success , not in the commercial sense of the word but an exploration into just why The Smiths connect with so many and whether that connection invokes a solid and lasting influence or is simply a mere fad . |
| 12 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 13 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 14 | The school is situated in the Garden District of Santa Cruz ( pop 195,000 ) , a city of contrasts which retains much of its colonial charm and is only a short drive away from the nightlife of the resort of Puerto de la Cruz . |
| 15 | The Trimdon seven , incidentally , are joined by Hartlepool 's Keith Nobbs who like them went to Sedgefield Comp but is definitely a foreigner . |
| 16 | One of the bottles made its way back to the Brewery and is now a feature of the Guinness museum . |
| 17 | To make such an abstraction is to remove oneself to so rarefied a plane that the object of one 's interrogation becomes an eternal category and is therefore a pointless exercise . |
| 18 | The historic cost is the result of a past decision and is therefore a sunk cost and irrelevant in decision-making . |
| 19 | By contrast , capital consists of units of money and is thus a malleable entity , easily restructured into larger aggregations . |
| 20 | Whether this statement rests on a factual basis or is simply a reasonable hypothesis it is once again impossible to tell . |
| 21 | Eulaema ignita also collects scent but , being the wrong size , does not brush against the pollinia and is therefore a robber . |
| 22 | Bulk ( eg , bran ) improves constipation and is otherwise a safe , cheap placebo . |
| 23 | Gargrave is the home of Johnson & Johnson of babies ' bottoms fame and is also a good stopping point for a traveller on the Pennine Way , for there is a wonderful cafe here known to generations of walkers and cyclists at the very spot where the Way crosses the busy turnpike . |
| 24 | Hinduism is followed by 85 per cent of India 's population and is more a way of life than a religion . |
| 25 | ‘ I will give Byrne a breather he has lost his sharpness and is only a shadow of himself , ’ said Crosby yesterday . |
| 26 | The expression for dva can be written compactly as where is defined by All the vectors v , da , and db appearing in ( 7.2 ) are quite arbitrary ; dv is the difference between local vectors at the same place and is also a vector . |
| 27 | Second , it is submitted for the plaintiffs that such action is not in relation to the grant or refusal of a further advance because the making of the valuation is not part of the administration or managerial process leading to the grant or refusal but is only a condition precedent to the actual process of making a grant . |
| 28 | Porlock is not only famous for its steep hill but is also a superb centre for touring Exmoor . |
| 29 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 30 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |