Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore important that you take a route which is likely to succeed . |
| 2 | Pam Ashton will take the Trans Pennine Trail , a route she is helping to establish , which stretches from Southport to Hornsea on the east coast . |
| 3 | Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category . |
| 4 | And erm a payment which is known as the death grant . |
| 5 | I never actually experienced the drama of dealing with any lack of moral fibre ( LMF ) cases , although I can imagine the difficulty faced by a CO who is trying to run a squadron in wartime if suddenly he was confronted with a case of LMF . |
| 6 | They add sugar to their breakfast cereal ( or buy a variety which is sugar-coated ) . |
| 7 | You have a variety which is treatable — but not curable . ’ |
| 8 | It is a research programme which sets out to show how it is that our beliefs about an external world , about science , about a past and a future , about other minds , etc. , can be justified on a base which is restricted to infallible beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 9 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 10 | That is absolutely contrary to the constitutional position that Parliament can alter an Act previously passed , and it can do so by repealing in terms the previous Act — Mr Hill agrees that it may do so — and it can do it also in another way — namely , by enacting a provision which is clearly inconsistent with the previous Act . |
| 11 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 12 | I am neither very old nor at all senile , Isabel Lavender thought , but I do have a sister who is selfish and easily led , and in this world , none of us are safe from the navy-blue ambulance . |
| 13 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 14 | Shortly before I visited Lindow Moss , Britain had just wasted £100 million in futile repairs to a submarine which is now to be scrapped . |
| 15 | When you do want to use the floppy drive it connects to the printer port via a cable which is about 10 inches long . |
| 16 | The joy of it all is that this is a resort which is peaceful — you can hear the Atlantic waves breaking on the seashore . |
| 17 | Now in the middle of a recession which is shaking the rest of America 's car industry , Buick is enjoying a remarkable rebound . |
| 18 | The ungainly term cultural reading alludes to a function which is notoriously difficult to define . |
| 19 | The question which immediately arises is : ‘ how do we report on a function which is entirely concerned with the wellbeing of individual pupils without breaking confidence ? ’ . |
| 20 | Invent a function which is continuous for all x and yet not differentiable whenever x is a whole number . |
| 21 | Er generally if you try and differentiate a function which is n't continuous , |
| 22 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 23 | Hemingway takes us through a hurricane which is predicted , which comes very near but finally misses his home . |
| 24 | The discussion which follows in the Report for young people in general is based mainly on a rating which is established by subtracting the number of employers who think that young people are worse than older workers from those who think that they are better on each of these attributes . |
| 25 | You may meet a saddler who is the sixth generation of his family to carry on making bell harnesses . |
| 26 | Yet how do we decide in such a case what is compresent with what ? |
| 27 | In a case which is causing the Bar much embarrassment , Lord Justice Watkins and Mr Justice Garland were told that six barristers followed Sir Ian , while 11 decided to stay with Mr John Samuels , QC , who was in charge of chambers administration . |
| 28 | But a case which is of enormous embarrassment to sport may not yet be over and the International Amateur Athletic Federation might not regard the matter as closed . |
| 29 | As instructed , erm I present a case which is unified on behalf of all the bodies and persons I represent . |
| 30 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |