Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 2 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 3 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 4 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
| 5 | It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . |
| 6 | It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled . |
| 7 | It is here that an individual anthropomorphic interpretation of each animal enters the process and overlays generalised documentation . |
| 8 | It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research . |
| 9 | When the itching does begin it is probably because an allergic or sensitivity reaction has been set up . |
| 10 | By implication , these models should not be used , as they often are , to evaluate different policy regimes , since it is precisely when a different policy regime is adopted that they become unreliable . |
| 11 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |