Example sentences of "[noun] is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Cullen , where they got a fresh chaise ‘ and very good horses ’ , to Elgin is a distance of about twenty-five miles , through whiskified Speyside . |
| 2 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 3 | In a Napoleon he can not discover anybody to be ; a Napoleon is a projected , dreamed-up , aimed-at type , a ‘ generalhuman ’ . |
| 4 | A Napoleon is a non-person , a ‘ generalhuman ’ ; and although the word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment itself , the notebooks make the point that one ca n't just live ‘ the general life of humanity ’ . |
| 5 | Napoleon himself had plenty to do , but a Napoleon is a member of a conceptual class of people who are like each other ; and likeness , the ‘ unseemly likeness ’ of The Double , is fraught throughout Dostoevsky . |
| 6 | The mean is an unstable statistic influenced by a small proportion of the population with large numbers of partners ; sampling strategies may under-represent minorities with multiple partners ( for example , prostitutes ) ; and sexual partnerships occur outside the sampled population through migration and travel . |
| 7 | A spinning wheel is a working tool so repairs are quite acceptable . |
| 8 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 9 | The Development Wheel is a circular chart divided into three sections ; personal well-being , communal well-being and material well-being . |
| 10 | The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one . |
| 11 | A bad Goshiki is a hotchpotch fish , whose colours look as though they have been mixed by a five-year-old and applied with a wet rag . |
| 12 | The Soldier in Book iv of The Prelude is an example of Wordsworth performing a Good Samaritan act ; but what impressed Wordsworth and remains with us is the description of the Soldier 's appearance : |
| 13 | 49% believe the increase in divorce is significant but only 22% of you believe the decline in religion is a significant factor . |
| 14 | It would have appeared a politically harmless work , if it had not contained a violent attack in the Preface on ‘ the impertinent and ignorant preachers ’ appointed by the Government , ‘ who think all religion is a sermon and all sermons ought to be libels against truth and old Governors , and expound chapters that the meaning may never be understood ’ . |
| 15 | It could hold , as deism did , to belief in God ; it could believe that religion is a ‘ natural ’ and proper element in human life , and that spiritual and moral truths are preserved in the Bible and in Christian teaching . |
| 16 | It is sometimes argued that a science of religion is a contradiction in terms . |
| 17 | Religion is a vital and enduring part of man 's life and experience in Egypt , the breath of life itself . |
| 18 | The point is that religion and ethnicity are not identical ; but religion is a culturally accepted marker of ethnicity , and the terms ‘ Protestant ’ and ‘ Catholic ’ in Northern Ireland refer to ethnicity rather than religion . |
| 19 | Religion is a fundamental source of another quality compassion . |
| 20 | Religion is a kids ’ party for adults . ’ |
| 21 | The preoccupation with the establishment and maintenance of civilisation and true religion is a central feature of Spenser 's poem as it is with his political tract . |
| 22 | There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends . |
| 23 | Well , what Freud does in this book , is to effectively say , religion is a transference phenomenon . |
| 24 | He explains the appeal of religion in general to people , by saying religion is a transference . |
| 25 | So Freud is not saying religion is a delusion or an error , he 's saying it 's an illusion , and it 's an illusion because it 's a factual mistake maintained by wish fulfilment . |
| 26 | How is order possible , and answered it in part , by saying , well , religion is a civilizing order creating force . |
| 27 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |
| 28 | The fact that religion wo n't just go away — that it is a phenomenon to be explained — has led those influenced by positivism to explain religion as entirely a matter of social and cultural conditioning and outward show : basically religion is a kind of cultural dressing-up game . |
| 29 | It could , however , easily leave the impression , especially with Western children , that religion is a matter of irrational feelings and sentimentality divorced from the real world and divorced from truth . |
| 30 | The view that religion is a response to revealed truth , and the implications of this with regard to how we can be expected to find out about it , are not normally considered at all . |