Example sentences of "[det] a [noun] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a vision is as microscopic as Paul Scott 's is panoramic ; and a future historian , reading the Raj Quartet or J. G. Farrell 's Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 ) , which tells of the Indian Mutiny , might easily make the mistake of supposing that the British are nostalgic for lost empire . |
| 2 | To suggest we should ignore such a sign is as irrational as saying that the blue-black line which appears on the gums due to chronic lead poisoning is of no significance because it does n't cause any pain or discomfort . |
| 3 | The principal advantage of such a requirement is that it signals , in a formal way , that the procedure is under way . |
| 4 | A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt . |
| 5 | The motion before such a committee is that it has considered an instrument , so that the only means of protest is to vote against the motion — in effect , deny doing what has been done ! |
| 6 | One of the advantages of such a committee is that its deliberations can range over the whole further education sector in Wales , including both advanced and non-advanced courses . |
| 7 | The advantage of such a scheme is that , as it does not involve a transfer of the target 's shares or an assignment of any interest in them , no stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax is payable . |
| 8 | Notions of the freedom and autonomy of the self are at one and the same time inverted and used to pervert the ethical and metaphysical values which such a self is or was supposed to instantiate . |
| 9 | Both the ideal good and the ideal bad objects are understood , not as a something external to the subject , but as inseparable from an emerging sense of the world in which such a division is as yet unperceived . |
| 10 | The implication of such a decision is that freight will continue to be carried , as at present , on existing lines , with the intensified use of those lines possibly throughout the night . |
| 11 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 12 | Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way : |
| 13 | The problem with such a system is that a more detailed breakdown of costs into trades , elements or work sections would be difficult to achieve on a manual basis . |
| 14 | One of the attributes of such a system is that it makes available to all concerned the information they need to discharge their responsibilities . |
| 15 | it appears to be accepted that the effect of such a provision is that : |
| 16 | The effect of such a provision is that the claim in question can not be enforced in any way , either by litigation or indirectly , for instance by set-off or counterclaim . |
| 17 | The only trouble with such a hypothesis is that it is difficult to prove . |
| 18 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 19 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 20 | A consequence of the existence of such a link is that excitatory conditioning will be retarded when an inhibitory CS is used to signal the occurrence of the US . |
| 21 | A positive aspect of such a map is that careful scrutiny of the data provides a more direct indication of the nature of a response than does the sequential presentation of information in verbal description . |
| 22 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |
| 23 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 24 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 25 | Such a case was not pleaded or included in the judge 's summary of the issues : the nearest the issues come to such a claim is that if a conflict of interest arose , the defendants ‘ would inform [ the plaintiff ] of the conflict and , after due consultation with him , resolve it . ’ |
| 26 | Such a place is as beyond Jen as Xanadu . |
| 27 | However , the danger with relying upon such a model is that the necessity to summarize and simplify the more relevant economic relationships can lead to the omission or misrepresentation of some important features . |
| 28 | One example of such a model is that of Vidale and Wolfe who related the rate of change of sales to advertising by the equation : unc where S = sales at time t ds/dt = rate of change of sales at time A = advertising expenditure at time r = sales response factor ( sales generated per unit of advertising expenditure ) M = saturation level of sales ( sales maximum ) |
| 29 | Surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister , and surely what really provoked the rabble opposite to make such a din is that they are embarrassed at the sound of their own policies . |
| 30 | The simplest form of such a rule is that which empowers an individual or body of persons to introduce new primary rules for the conduct of the life of the group , or of some class within it , and to eliminate old rules … |