Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Other diversions include a sauna and steam bath which is free once a week , but otherwise is payable locally .
2 Facilities include an indoor pool which opens onto a large garden , a solarium , sauna ( which is free twice a week ) and sun terrace .
3 You are all up a bit before your time .
4 she is deaf twice a day
5 As far as much of the rest of the world is concerned , we 're all just a bunch of queers .
6 We 're all just a bunch of crazies , ’ being one of them .
7 Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car .
8 The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises .
9 But there is that again a confusion So a target that perhaps election by thirds reduces public interest , possibly reduces turn out .
10 ‘ But it 's all just a coincidence ! ’ said Angalo .
11 It 's all just a myth .
12 Doubtless it 's all just a safety precaution and will come to nothing .
13 Like it really , that film really pisses me off right , when he 's beating her up and he rips her knickers off and fucks her up the arse and Nick 's going that 's how to treat a wo it 's disgusting fucking a woman up her arse , and ripping off the woman 's knickers and rip putting it up sitting watching it thinking
14 I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ?
15 It is extraordinary how a nation so characterised by class difference should still be so timid about immortalising its own class struggles in place names .
16 It is all largely a matter of trial and error to find the string that will suit you best .
17 If it is all just a matter of philosophy , then anyone can voice an opinion on it , and there may be differing views of what ‘ humanity ’ consists of behind it all .
18 It is all really a matter of manual dexterity and self-confidence .
19 It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time .
20 It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification .
21 It was all rather a relief .
22 For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise .
23 At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore .
24 Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience .
25 Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body .
26 Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control .
27 It was all just a moment 's mental aberration !
28 It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in .
29 But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons .
30 Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions .
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