Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] is that a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd .
2 So the invariable requirement now is that a market member trading on the market floor or its equivalent ( eg an automated trading system ) is required by market rules either to be a clearing member or to have a clearing agreement with a clearing member .
3 The essential difference here is that an arbitration award is subject to appeal to or review by the High Court .
4 My point here is that a further rapid increase in unemployment might have weakened the unions ' power of resistance ( one can draw a comparison with the Thatcher government ) , but playing according to rules which prohibited blatant mass unemployment tied the government 's hands .
5 Their only hope now is that a buyer can be found who can afford vast sum , it will take to bring the building back to it 's former glory .
6 The argument here is that a high correlation between an item and the overall test score means that the item contributes little new information which is not already tapped by other items .
7 The suggestion here is that an utterance is an interpretation of another to the extent that it shares logical and contextual implications with it .
8 The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q .
9 The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature .
10 Thus , the most general consequence of concentrating on standard English here is that a multidimensional history of phonology is made to appear as unidimensional — it becomes ‘ a single-minded march ’ towards RP and standard English ( Lass , 1976 , xi ) .
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