Example sentences of "is [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 2 | thirty P off cans of beer that is or a bottle of wine |
| 3 | I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe . |
| 4 | Copsey is nor a dirty player and it would have been tragic had he been sent off in his first international ’ — IEUAN EVANS ( Wales captain ) on the Tony Copsey incident in Dublin against Ireland . |
| 5 | The advice offered here is that a reader should ignore what category of writing a book or article may come under , since helpful art criticism may be found in all sorts of sources . |
| 6 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 7 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |
| 8 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 9 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 10 | The advantage of rope and parafil for car launching is that a drogue or parachute are not absolutely necessary . |
| 11 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 12 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |
| 13 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 14 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 15 | The general opinion is that a bridge is necessary , though not a toll bridge . ’ |
| 16 | The key to yesterday 's deal is that a problem of this magnitude is now unlikely to happen again . |
| 17 | The contrary view is that a huge capital investment will have to be made soon to maintain buildings and provide equipment . |
| 18 | The final qualification is that a print-maker , to reach the very top of the tree , must be known and appreciated by the Japanese . |
| 19 | A further problem is that a BAe takeover would strengthen German objections to Ferranti winning the radar contract for the European Fighter Aircraft since it would mean BAe gaining a disproportionately large share of the total project . |
| 20 | The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find — dismaying though that may be for party propagandists . |
| 21 | The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred . |
| 22 | The plan is that a new company , soon to be renamed LWT ( Holdings ) , will buy in all of LWT 's shares , paying one new preferred share plus a package worth 130p made up of a special dividend of 60p , an associated tax credit of 20p and either loan notes or cash worth 50p . |
| 23 | One assertion which has been made in support of student loans is that a student should be prepared to take a loan in respect of his or her enhanced earning capacity as a graduate . |
| 24 | The result of this relatively narrow income distribution is that a company can be truly multinational , doing business with a spread of nations with high levels of income , whilst confining its activities to a very small number of countries . |
| 25 | The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals . |
| 26 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 27 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 28 | What is especially fascinating about this text is that a rehabilitation of masculinity coexists with an ironic repudiation of it , and a critique of what might be called masculinity 's cultural unconscious . |
| 29 | What we learn from Wilde , Gide , Barthes , and others is that a conventionally understood politics which ignores sexual desire will quite possibly be as disastrous as one which makes that desire the prime mover — even , or especially , in the age of so-called post-liberation . |
| 30 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |