Example sentences of "[be] an [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general GC sites which are preceded by G or followed by C ( such as GGCT/AGCC , GGCA/TGCC , and GGCG/CGCC ) exhibit dissociation times which are an order of magnitude faster than those from sequences such as AGCA/TGCT . |
| 2 | He must of been an admiral of title somewhere else , ha ha . |
| 3 | The result of the Bundestag election , which had been an affirmation of unification rather than an orthodox contest between the governing parties and the opposition , was not a good guide to subsequent Land election results . |
| 4 | While there may be a reluctance on the part of the courts to rule on the validity of Acts of Parliament , a related issue which has arisen is whether they may adjudicate upon the question whether something purporting to be an Act of Parliament actually is such . |
| 5 | First , because the Barclays ( Asia ) allegations are so old — and so unnecessarily old — that it would be an abuse of process now to bring them to trial . |
| 6 | Is it intended that there should never be an interchange of information directly by computer but only by request between all European Community police forces ? |
| 7 | If equality before the law is to be an equality of voices then there are issues about formal procedures and the extent to which these are accessible to all . |
| 8 | My guess would be an upsurge of sentiment whenever the money was getting tight . |
| 9 | ‘ You feel a place is dead if there 's no school in it — there 's an air of depression somehow ’ . |
| 10 | But if the blo if that block of land had been sold off , and somebody came along and wanted to put up farm buildings and a house , then we would support it , probably , because there 's an area of land there that 's viable . |
| 11 | ‘ Minch is not just any eagle , she is an eagle of Callanish where the greatest of our kind come from . |
| 12 | There is an issue of confidentiality here , but awareness of major audit issues through discussion with colleagues is very valuable to an auditor . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act , or causing or permitting some act to be done , on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for . |
| 14 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there is an element of incongruity here since the requirement of fitness for purpose is made the basis of s14(2) as well as s14(3). ( e ) Merchantability and quality The emphasis in s14(6) upon function and purpose can in one sense be regarded as undermining an important element in merchantability , namely , quality . |
| 16 | And may I say very clearly and unequivocally at the outset , that it is abhorrent when it does happen to us because there 's no place for it , quite simply because er it is counterproductive to cohesion , and cohesion is the basis for operational effectiveness , and when there is an incident of bullying then we very promptly and thoroughly investigate it , and that investigation is followed , if there 's a case to be brought , by a trial of the chap that 's guilty . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ You have to remember that selecting the right cigar is an act of intuition rather than analysis . |
| 18 | So there is an area of conflict here . |
| 19 | Text organisation is an area of study very much in its infancy , yet interesting pointers are emerging both in relation to reading and to writing ( see , for instance , Byron et al. , 1981 and Hoey , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | But it tells us too little of the horses and the mules and the packs he used ; it tells us nothing of his carts and his boats ; and this is an area of scholarship curiously underdeveloped . |
| 21 | Easton was not randomly chosen for the location of this research , but purposely selected because it is an area of Belfast where routine policing is possible as a result of the virtual absence of political violence in the locale , whether Catholic or Protestant in origin ( and , as later chapters will show , it is a mistake to see the RUC 's relationship with Catholics only as problematic ) . |
| 22 | What follows is an amplification of matters already discussed with an emphasis on contemporary culture and the conflict at its summit between the resurgent tragic impulse and the rationalistic spirit of Wissenschaft . |
| 23 | Hic Mulier , the voice of female transvestites in the most interesting pamphlet , Haec Vir ( 1620 ) , insists that gender difference is an effect of custom only . |
| 24 | The narrating instance is an object of exchange in Thru , indeed it figures in Greimas 's diagram as an ‘ O ’ ( 117/695 ) . |
| 25 | " I went for a check-up but , in my heart of hearts , I recognised that it was an attack of panic more than anything else , " she remembers . |
| 26 | They therefore adopted the view that faith was not a work because it was an act of God rather than of the human person . |
| 27 | This was an issue of detail rather than principle . |
| 28 | Wings Pieter Hendriks and James Small were devastating and there was an air of control throughout . |
| 29 | And it was well known , too — and there was an element of guilt here — that East Germany was West Germany 's dustbin for toxic and other wastes and plain rubbish . |
| 30 | There was an element of criticism there of which I was informed by the Chief Whip and the Lord Chancellor , just as there was an element of criticism of Hailsham , and it seemed quite possible that the Whips would prefer a compromise candidate . |