Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 2 | A spinning wheel is a working tool so repairs are quite acceptable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Development Wheel is a circular chart divided into three sections ; personal well-being , communal well-being and material well-being . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alternative medicine 's okay , but the old religion 's a bit sort of pushing it . |
| 7 | 49% believe the increase in divorce is significant but only 22% of you believe the decline in religion is a significant factor . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is sometimes argued that a science of religion is a contradiction in terms . |
| 11 | Religion is a vital and enduring part of man 's life and experience in Egypt , the breath of life itself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Religion is a fundamental source of another quality compassion . |
| 14 | Religion is a kids ’ party for adults . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well , what Freud does in this book , is to effectively say , religion is a transference phenomenon . |
| 18 | He explains the appeal of religion in general to people , by saying religion is a transference . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | How is order possible , and answered it in part , by saying , well , religion is a civilizing order creating force . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Religion is a force for the good Alison White 4H1 |
| 26 | In my opinion the true themes of religion are being lost in all the disputes surrounding it and the fact the religion is a force for the good needs to promoted . |
| 27 | It may not be a nice little earner , but a gong 's a gong and the OBE is certain to keep her Indoors happy . |
| 28 | TOKS AKPATA is a man whose love of the game and whose own sad injury have spurred him on his one-man campaign to make the rugby pitch a safer place . |
| 29 | Carbon dating for the Altamira caves , a penguin troubles sceptics at the submerged Grotte Henri Cosquer , and the sponge is a give-away at Alave |
| 30 | Madeira sponge is a good choice for many cakes as it is moist and tasty , yet firm and compact enough for cutting and shaping . |