Example sentences of "[is] indeed a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is indeed a possibility . |
| 2 | It is indeed a case of ‘ what you will ’ in decoding this and all other linguistic signs , but it is Iago who has made Othello construe it in that manner , and will continue to do so . |
| 3 | It is indeed a case of ‘ the day of small things ’ and it is the doing of them with good-humoured patience and the appreciation of others doing them that makes the sum of these tiny parts such a very considerable one at the end of the day . |
| 4 | There is indeed a skill of craftsmanship in applying technology ; knowing just how far to go in programming the machine and what to do by hand ; selecting from the materials and technologies and applying them in different ways ; deciding exactly what one should attempt to achieve through technology . |
| 5 | This is several million years older than the previously oldest known fossil ape from Meswa Bridge in the Koru area , and if this specimen is indeed a fossil hominoid it puts the date for hominoid origins at least to 25Myr . |
| 6 | Item No 1 ; this is indeed a purse-bar , dating from late-15th to 16th century . |
| 7 | There is indeed a degree of circularity about simple models which explain industrialisation primarily in terms of a mass-production response to an expansion of the home market induced by population growth in favourable circumstances . |
| 8 | There is indeed a sense of having missed out . |
| 9 | The other hole indicates to the disk drive hardware that it is indeed a HD floppy . |
| 10 | I shall assume that the zoological species Homo sapiens is indeed a unity in the sense that in the hypothetical absence of all cultural restraints interbreeding between the members of any randomly selected human population of randomly selected individuals would be random , just as it would be in a randomly selected pack of mongrel dogs provided always that particular individual dogs were prevented from asserting dominance over their neighbours . |
| 11 | Grass is indeed a symbol of what is short-lived , and is sometimes used of mankind 's transitoriness . |
| 12 | In our case , they enable us to claim that there is indeed a pedagogy of language teaching and a profession which practises it . |
| 13 | ‘ Infatuation ’ is indeed a word one might use as well as ‘ bewilderment ’ . |
| 14 | For the moment it is enough to underline the relevance of this suggestion to the Sonnets , the whole experience of which is presented from the point of view of ego alone , from which perspective the third person is indeed a sign of a double absence , both of the I and the Thou . |
| 15 | Going up on wings in no way specifies " changing strength " , but putting forth new wings or new plumage is indeed a sign of new strength , whether or not there is an allusion to a belief that in old age eagles grow new wings . |
| 16 | Only half convinced of the truth of my new thesis , and not wholly sure of where exactly I am , I can nevertheless recognize with some satisfaction that perhaps the most disconcerting thing a character in a novel can do is to announce that he is indeed a character in a novel . |
| 17 | " My name is Tran Van Hieu , and it is indeed a pity for your sister , Monsieur Sherman , that she could n't accompany you . |
| 18 | corresponding to a feasible solution shows that this solution is indeed a BFS , since we explained in Section 8.1 how the canonical equations could be derived from the corresponding tree . |
| 19 | The reef is indeed a way of life , not a particular kind of creature . |
| 20 | This is indeed a way of trying to meet the requirement of the dependence thesis . |
| 21 | She is indeed a princess ‘ out of his star ’ : all the more reason not to drag her down to his level . |
| 22 | HOW DOES AMNESTY SET ABOUT ESTABLISHING WHETHER A PRISONER IS INDEED A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE ? |
| 23 | There is indeed a world market for savings , although that is not a wholly comforting fact : the Chancellor himself foresees a world shortage of savings , which means everyone is going to have to compete harder ( ie , pay more ) for them . |
| 24 | As there is indeed a need to reduce car dependency it therefore follows that the nearer to York that the new settlement is then the greater the benefits could result , equally to , the further that the new settlement is from York then I think the less it will have an effect in reducing the pressures for development upon York . |
| 25 | Art is indeed a mystery — a ‘ truth which is above reason ’ , and here are two facets of it , which , if we are honest , must have perplexed most of us . |
| 26 | I believe if this is indeed a statement about the christian ideal of marriage , then we should put worship at the very centre of it . |
| 27 | Epigenesis is indeed a process set in time . |
| 28 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market . |
| 29 | The only casualty along the way , and this is indeed a cause for distress , may be the modernist validity of social-scientific knowledge . |
| 30 | The swinging rhythm and rather pleasantly exhibitionist rhyme- scheme , together with the reconciled paradoxical terms of the maiden-mother , angels kneeling to men , prisoners freed , small become great and foe become friend , enact rhetorically a delight that redemption is indeed a game , the playing of which reverses all the normal expectations of mortality . |