Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [is] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HE 'S A BIT DODGY IS THAT DR . |
| 2 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 3 | AIESEC Debate : ‘ This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry . ’ |
| 4 | Later that month the Union 's largest society , AIESEC , the international organisation for students of all subjects who are interested in business and management , organised a debate on the motion that ‘ This House believes that a university degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry ’ . |
| 5 | In the case when a clone length is less than that of a repetitive element ( or a total length of a group of adjacent repeats ) , a break in the contig is inevitable and can only be closed by using longer clones which can bridge the repeat . |
| 6 | A rent action is any action where a landlord claims arrears of rent from a tenant or former tenant who is still in occupation of the land to which the claim relates . |
| 7 | Thus , although the main thrust of the National Health Service and Community Care Act is concerned with financial and managerial structures and the only explicit definition of a practice role is that of Assessment in Sec.47 , other practice roles are implicit and have to be inferred or derived from guidance or policy documentation . |
| 8 | A blood sample is all that is needed . |
| 9 | One crucial criterion in justifying a screening programme is that intervention is more effective in presymptomatic disease than after symptoms have appeared . |
| 10 | The characteristic of a chattel slave is that he(she) has no recognized kin who have continuing rights and obligations by virtue of their kinship . |
| 11 | A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep . |
| 12 | The Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) offers practical assistance and you may find that a telephone call is enough to set your mind at rest . |
| 13 | ‘ Laddering ’ or a series of ascending ( or descending ) passes in trail to form a stepping sequence is another basic stunt which tests the degree of compatibility of each flyer and the kite . |
| 14 | A window box is more than capable of supplying you with some of the flowers you may want to press , and you can buy other flowers from a florist to supplement what you grow yourself . |
| 15 | However , the problem with a cash placing is that existing institutional shareholders may not be willing to consent to the disapplication of pre-emption rights . |
| 16 | A shift register is another multi-stage D-type flip-flop circuit with each Q output connected to the following D input . |
| 17 | A sound constitution is another requirement , as can be realised from the following passage from Gilchrist Alexander 's The Temple of the Nineties . |
| 18 | It 's the same as saying should we have a diesel engine or a petrol engine because a diesel engine is less than inflammable fuel-wise than petrol and I think these issues should be raised . |
| 19 | A tree pipit is another nondescript ‘ little brown job ’ , almost indistinguishable from the meadow pipit except for its remarkable song flight . |
| 20 | A drink problem is less to do with enjoying alcohol than with using it as a means of coping with pressures of various kinds . |
| 21 | One area which seems to demand a realist approach is that of other minds , which will be discussed in chapter 5 . |
| 22 | For a woman Sharam is such a precious quality … |
| 23 | Even so , the difficulty for the individual creating a root definition is less than the difficulty in getting all the individuals involved to agree on the definition to be used . |
| 24 | The quality of output from a page printer is more than adequate for an instant print shop to use as the master for a bulk run either through a copier or proper printing . |
| 25 | A profit centre is any part of an organization to which both costs and income are attributed . |
| 26 | A working day is any day except Sunday or a public holiday . |
| 27 | A default action is any action , other than an admiralty action or a rent action , in which the only relief claimed is payment of money , whether that sum is already ascertained ( eg a debt ) or is to be ascertained in due course by the court ( damages ) . |
| 28 | There are two reasons why society might consider that the social cost of a capital good is less than its private cost . |
| 29 | A word group is all the most usual forms of a word ; so table / tables , look / looks / looking / looked , go / goes / going / gone / went are each a word group . |
| 30 | Erm but we do n't and in fact what will happen in a housing shortage is that in migrants will be able to buy their way in . |