Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 2 | that 's fifty pounds in n it for a month , so that 's a month |
| 3 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 4 | In an uncertain market and given the water flotation is already something of a lottery , that is a dangerous attitude to take . |
| 5 | Dessert is usually something like a biscuit or small piece of cake or rice pudding or pie and custard ( but dessert is not eaten every night ) . |
| 6 | ’ It is always something of a shock to see black women , sharing equally ( and sometimes more than equally ) in the labor and strife of black people , expunged from the text when history becomes shaped into what we call tradition . |
| 7 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |
| 8 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 9 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 10 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 11 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 12 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 13 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 14 | Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery . |
| 15 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 16 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's still something of a stigma in being an unemployed professional , ’ said Kate Comfort , director of public affairs at RIAS . |
| 18 | I think there 's probably one inside a pillow case knowing you |
| 19 | She is also something of a friend . |
| 20 | She is also something of a populist . |
| 21 | As well as being an ardent botanist , Mr Taylor is also something of a historian . |
| 22 | He 's also something of a clairvoyant . |
| 23 | He may be just a boy , but he 's also something of a genius . |
| 24 | It 's also something of a con . |
| 25 | And some spake up saying , Well , all right , but it is really nothing but a Co incidence ; iii . |
| 26 | The organizers of the exhibition wanted a Boston Tacker to stand in the foyer to tie in with the theme of the seventy fifth anniversary of the B U locating however , locating the complete model has proved something of a headache like the Model T Ford , the Boston Tacker was always very common but is now something of a rarity and the branch had finally settled for head to be borrowed from C and J Clarke , shoe machi , museum in Street , Somerset . |
| 27 | That those who are not really able to pay , who are genuinely hit very hard by the current eighty three pounds , is n't it for a colour television licence , I think ? |
| 28 | It would , they say , lessen the burden on hard-up viewers who ca n't afford the eighty odd pounds , I think it 's eighty three pounds is n't it for a television li a colour television licence now ? |
| 29 | This wood- chip paper does It 's fairly thick is n't it as a paper , will that make a lot of difference to your actually measurement that you make . |
| 30 | I know we all get a bit stuck in our ways once we 're over thirty , but for Heaven 's sake , is n't it worth a try ? |