Example sentences of "is [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing a baby likes more than to see something brightly coloured an interesting . |
| 2 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 3 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 4 | Is , is yours a heater ? |
| 5 | But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists . |
| 6 | Howarth , a fellow student of Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies ( who wrote the Trumpet Sonata , Op.1 , for him ) in Manchester in the 1950s , is himself a trumpet player as well as a specialist conductor of contemporary music . |
| 7 | Except that Eupolis , our narrator and celebrator of these blisses , is himself a cynic . |
| 8 | But , in terms of the tragicomical life of the book , such a reader is himself a fiction , and an empty one . |
| 9 | The debtor may then ( with the court 's approval ) make a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors ; but if this is not done he will be adjudicated bankrupt , and the whole of his property ( not including property of which he is himself a trustee , or — up to the value of £250 — the tools of his trade and the necessary clothing and bedding of himself and his family ) will vest in the ‘ official receiver ’ ( a public officer ) or some other trustee , and become divisible among his creditors who prove their debts . |
| 10 | It was worth every mile , and somehow the travelling was particularly appropriate , for he is himself a travelling man , at home everywhere and nowhere . |
| 11 | The church approached Darlington fire sub officer Brett Clayton who lives in the village and is himself a collector of fire engines . |
| 12 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 13 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 14 | The walk was started by T.V. star Fred Wedlock who is himself a railway enthusiast . |
| 15 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 16 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 17 | The reason for Mr Ojukwu 's new enthusiasm for the right is the choice of a Christian Ibo from the east , Sylvester Ugoh , as running-mate for Mr Tofa , who is himself a Muslim from the Hausa heartland in the north . |
| 18 | Where the landlord is himself a leaseholder , the draftsman should have in mind the length of the landlord 's own lease . |
| 19 | This safety net is itself a response to the attitude of the state towards the need to safeguard the position of leading companies . |
| 20 | Of course one might argue that working-class women 's tendency to stay in education longer is itself a sign of their status consciousness . |
| 21 | It needs particularly to be kept in mind , with the objection now to be considered , that it is indeed advanced as an objection to a given analysis of our causal beliefs , and hence is itself a proposal as to those beliefs . |
| 22 | This theorem states that if the product of with any arbitrary tensor is also a tensor , then is itself a tensor . |
| 23 | There is no need to call up the tort where the legal wrong procured is itself a tort against the plaintiff , for the procurer is then himself liable as a joint tortfeasor ; nor , it seems , is there a tort of inducing a breach of trust , because a person who procures such an act becomes himself , by the doctrines of equity , liable as a trustee . |
| 24 | Under section 228 when a parent company is itself a subsidiary and its immediate parent is established under the law of a member State , it may , if certain conditions are fulfilled , be exempt from the requirement to prepare group accounts . |
| 25 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 26 | In this sense the increase in judicial review over whether the evidence warrants the application of a certain statutory condition is itself a correlative of the widening of the concept of jurisdiction . |
| 27 | Indeed , the charge of homophobia is itself a kind of reverse discourse facilitated by the dynamic of perversion itself . |
| 28 | lt is derived from and is a subset of the logical schema ( Chapter 4 ) , which is the overall view of the database in a form required by the DBMS used , and which is itself a mapping from the conceptual schema ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 29 | As it happens , this use is not entirely wrong , since in many cases the person is insane and the psychopathic behaviour is itself a reflection of underlying psychosis . |
| 30 | Biopsy trauma is itself a stimulus to the synthesis of eicosanoids , but tissue fragments used for short incubation periods overcome the problems of tissue viability and both mechanical and chemical stimulation of synthesis of leukotriene are well established methods of generation under standardised conditions . |