Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seems to have been a business meeting when the Treasurer presented his accounts showing a balance of £15 ; 12 ; 6½ . |
| 2 | Second , there will be a border area where the two interpretations merge , in the sense that certain particular values for adjective and noun meanings , when joined in an attributive combination , will under either interpretation always correspond to identical external situations ; hence even highly sophisticated investigators might be hard put to it to tell whether a given adjective is simply applicable to X or has as its value having the property of being-related-to-X . |
| 3 | Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest . |
| 4 | Thus , not only is the housewife role specifically a feminine role , it is also women 's major occupational role today : the responsibility for running a home is one which is shared by the majority of all adult women . |
| 5 | And here , where we 're standing now , this is the act place where the train always whistled when it came round the bend . |
| 6 | Is the validation process essentially a legal one , verifying the legal validity of the claim ? |
| 7 | If unfeminine means ‘ not characteristic of women ’ , then why is the body hair almost every woman has called ‘ unfeminine hair ’ ? |
| 8 | Actually , I do n't think it 's the word Gary just the Letters G.A.R.Y . |
| 9 | that 's the installation program not the |
| 10 | But you really know it 's the Christmas holiday when the school Christmas concert comes . |
| 11 | If there is no majority voting then the Community will be left with the same level of impotence it has now . " |
| 12 | if the latest version of the module is a development version then the package must contain it as LATEST . |
| 13 | If the latest version of the module is a development version then the package must contain it as Latest . |
| 14 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 15 | There is a flower market here every morning and it is one of the most atmospheric areas of Prague . |
| 16 | If outside recruitment is a company feature then the age structure issue can be considered to achieve a better balance . |
| 17 | When is a swimming costume not a swimming costume ? |
| 18 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 19 | ‘ When is a rental level not a rental level ? ’ they asked . |
| 20 | At Sherborne , the philosophy is that if it is a team trip then the whole team must be able to go . |
| 21 | Question : When is a fax modem not a fax modem ? |
| 22 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 23 | Bowes Museum is an art museum not a theme park , exercising children 's eyes and minds — their curiosity , powers of observation and fledgling intelligence — rather than taking them on a rollercoaster ride . |
| 24 | ‘ Friends For Fitness ’ was a pilot scheme whereby a register of volunteer ‘ friends ’ was kept by the ‘ On Line ’ sports enquiry agency , who then matched them with enquirers about sport . |
| 25 | But luckily this was Portugal not Palestine , our transport was a hire car not a camel and yes — there was room at the inn . |
| 26 | The root cause of the Comet aircraft disasters was a rivet hole perhaps an eighth of an inch in diameter . |
| 27 | This was an island situation where the distance from suppliers and markets added considerably to the overall cost of farming . |