Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 2 | Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow . |
| 3 | The taste is somewhere between a guava and a grape . |
| 4 | At last somebody who 's on without a face as long as a fiddle . |
| 5 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 6 | It 's only for a week or so . ’ |
| 7 | Never has an apostrophe , it 's only on a noun that you 're going to do it , so , you could pick up sort of , just little , clues there as to , how to remember what you 're doing . |
| 8 | Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network . |
| 9 | THE OIL-DRILLING business is in for a shake-up if a new drill that will be tested this month at an abandoned well near San Francisco is successful . |
| 10 | I believe if a player is down as a defender but plays in another position . |
| 11 | Cover the treatment bath to prevent the fish jumping out , even if the bath is only for a minute or two . |
| 12 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |
| 13 | Which if you break it down is only about a pound and three quarters a week |
| 14 | Furthermore , since ethics is an empirical and historical discipline and since it is only in a democracy that all citizens participate equally , Dewey argued that the realization of each individual 's ethical potential can only occur within a democracy . |
| 15 | The modern town is scarcely worth a detour but the church is distinguished for having a very fine and elaborate Romanesque portal ; it has been heavily restored but it remains worth seeing . |
| 16 | He also suggests that this reductionism should be an end goal of physics ; scientific discovery is not about an expansion or a reaching out , but a narrowing in . |
| 17 | It is not worth a mention but for the fact its distribution and promotion is funded by our own dear British Film Institute . |
| 18 | The dissent in Bolduc & Bird repays study : if consent is to a doctor and student it is not to a doctor and friend . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not like a Dynasty or Dallas thing . |
| 20 | The interior courtyard is not like an atrium or peristyle . |
| 21 | To this extent the baby is comparable to the total imbecile ; or , if we include its sentience , limited locomotion , and prototypical behaviour , it is not unlike a cat or gibbon . |
| 22 | And it is just over a month since she wept tears of frustration during an arduous visit to the dust and famine of drought-stricken Somalia . |
| 23 | This is just in a courtyard and there 'll be shrubs and things so she 's got |
| 24 | They probably have three riders on call in case one goes sick or gets delayed or is already on a job but I 'll bet they never deal with more than two companies at a time . |
| 25 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just like a piano and so much so that we have n't even got one at home and I did n't practice on one before the competition I can just switch to playing it instead of a piano , ’ said Lisa . |
| 27 | There 's no , she 's not on a diet if that 's what you mean . |
| 28 | He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father . |
| 29 | The meeting is over within an hour and we return to the camp . |
| 30 | I 'd ordered champagne and flowers because a honeymoon is once in a lifetime but we ended up carrying our own luggage in pitch darkness across a car park and up a huge flight of stairs . |