Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 2 | Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else . |
| 3 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 4 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 5 | But Cousins stresses they are only a part of community care . |
| 6 | I mean Christmas ones are only a couple of foot apart , there 's only about that much between them , you know ? |
| 7 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the rules of Equity are only a sort of supplement or appendix to the Common Law ; they assume its existence but they add something further . |
| 9 | The systematic answers reveal that love is essentially in the inner heart of man not in works , which are merely a sign of love , though it is true that " luf wil noght be ydel : it es wirkand som gude evermare " ( 111.96 – 7 ) . |
| 10 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 11 | These are largely a matter of choice . |
| 12 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 13 | Preferences between wholemeal bread and white bread are largely a matter of habit . |
| 14 | There are already a number of church-based , alternative news agencies in Latin America , but most cover one particular area of the region . |
| 15 | You are not a child of Star Zoo . |
| 16 | Lower sales are not a sign of weakness of industry and commerce — just weakness of demand . |
| 17 | There are of course the court of protection costs which are to be calculated and are not a source of disagreement . |
| 18 | A second answer is that long working hours are not a cause of housework dissatisfaction because they are an expected part of the housewife role . |
| 19 | Consultants are not a waste of money , it was decided by an overwhelming majority at one of the liveliest debates of the 1993 BAIE convention . |
| 20 | ‘ You are not a waste of time , Jenna . ’ |
| 21 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 22 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I might say : you 're just a lot of dust and juices and bones and hair , and that 's true . |
| 24 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 25 | I told her you 're just a bag of shit with a pretty face who needs his arse kicked . |
| 26 | ‘ And , in order to keep the twins happy , we must make sure that we 're not a picture of doom and gloom , ’ he continued firmly . |
| 27 | If you 're not a lover of platform games it could be a wee bit tedious . |
| 28 | If it works out that 's great , but we 're not a piece of meat . ’ |
| 29 | If it works out that 's great , but we 're not a piece of meat . ’ |
| 30 | You 're always a tower of strength . |