Example sentences of "a [noun sg] is [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , LIFESPAN always assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if a user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken , e.g. failing to respond to a Software Performance Report . |
| 2 | In addition , LIFESPAN always assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if a user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken , e.g. failing to respond to a Software Performance Report . |
| 3 | For them , getting a winter coat was a big thing , it was to many working-class women what getting a car is to many men . |
| 4 | The pollutions which escape the field officer 's shroud of privacy are those which are so noticeable that they attract widespread public attention , or those where a complainant is of such status that he may enjoy direct contact with senior staff . |
| 5 | I confess that I sometimes wonder whether the thought of Europe as a whole is in some people 's minds , particularly when we discuss our friends in the Community and their actions . |
| 6 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |
| 7 | Employing a nanny is beyond most couple 's budget . |
| 8 | As Geertz recognises this is a potentially difficult task as the reader of a society is to some extent an intruder and capable of serious misreadings . |
| 9 | A bill is at this moment passing through Parliament which will enable the Milk Marketing Board to change from a statutory monopoly into a milk-buying co-operative , similar to those that already exist on the Continent , to be called Milk Marque . |
| 10 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 11 | Clearly the maintenance of discipline within a school is in all pupils ' best interests if it helps produce an environment conducive to learning , and it seems appropriate to leave with teachers the decision of how to achieve that objective , acting on the guidance provided by HMI , the Elton Report and so on . |
| 12 | A mother is in some sense outside time to her baby , and young children usually have no realistic idea of how old their mothers are . |
| 13 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 14 | We can not feel that such an arrangement is in any way unjust to you . |
| 15 | spread of disease and sibling competition , while it must be remembered that a site suited to germination of a particular tree species is no longer suited once an adult is in that place . |
| 16 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 17 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 18 | My case packed for an emergency is in that cupboard over there . |
| 19 | An exception is in those curricula where it is an integral part of a course of liturgical studies . |
| 20 | Furthermore , an individual is at each moment only a partial manifestation of an identity revealed over time , what physicists call a ‘ sum over histories ’ . |