Example sentences of "[is] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That s a prized possession , as he was one of my heros , along with Mr Lorimer ! |
| 2 | Its not fair … he s a cheating bastard . |
| 3 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 4 | I think he s a good defender who was unfortunate last year to take so much stick . |
| 5 | It 's a pubic wig |
| 6 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 7 | It 's a challenging thought for us , but would you be prepared to say about your life that : |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a holding operation , ’ Delaney summed up briskly , ‘ more than anything . |
| 9 | There 's a disgusting dirty old man with a taste for corporal punishment ( ’ I was so used to it at Westminster School ’ ) and not one but two splendid fools . |
| 10 | It 's a disgusting habit . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That 's a disgusting thing to say . |
| 12 | It 's a disgusting strip . |
| 13 | It 's a disgusting habit it you know , you should n't do it . |
| 14 | It 's a disgusting book , she should n't have made it . |
| 15 | Cathy says : ‘ It 's a peaceful site with plenty of fresh water nearby . |
| 16 | Iris Murdoch 's father was a civil servant , Amis 's an export clerk , Larkin 's a provincial city treasurer , and John Wain 's a dentist and an alderman . |
| 17 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 18 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 19 | Pension campaign leader Ken Trench last night said : ‘ It 's a shoddy way to try to stop us fighting for our rights . ’ |
| 20 | But if if we find anybody 's a persistent discounter they 're causing trouble for the person who comes to resell . |
| 21 | When baby 's first movements are felt — at around 18 to 20 weeks — it 's a tangible sign of the separate life inside you . |
| 22 | That 's a carding mill . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's a rash statement . ’ |
| 24 | ( And that 's a cod-almighty lot of fish . ) |
| 25 | I slip into make-up whenever and wherever there 's a spare chair , and today Lynette Braid , head of the department , is the miracle worker who paints out the dots and dashes and lines and circles . |
| 26 | What would happen is that the physiotherapist would actually train the mother to do it , she would show her what exercises need to be done and they have to be done almost constantly , several times a day and whenever there 's a spare moment , so therefore it 's not feasible for it to be done in a hospital is it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Or there 's a spare room here , if you ca n't face the blackout . ’ |
| 28 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 29 | This is only being put forward , not because it 's a spare capacity , but because it 's a choice between selling something and getting income , or cutting a service somewhere else . |
| 30 | I think I 'll come and sit beside you as there 's a spare seat . |