Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's nothing like a conversation when you smoke . |
| 2 | ‘ The focal point is me in a school because the subject is education , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
| 4 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 5 | Instead for millions of consumers , it is something between a chore and a nightmare … |
| 6 | ‘ I know now that there is something between a mother and her baby that even time can not take away . |
| 7 | ‘ You both have that golden skin , but yours makes one think of lovely geometrical planes , you 're all bone , she 's got bone too , but what one sees most is contour and colour — no , you are not remotely the same type , she could never be painted by a Modigliani or a Loulou , or a Piero for that matter , she is something between a Titian and a Gainsborough . ’ |
| 8 | There is something about a fire that reminds me of holiness and truth . |
| 9 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 10 | He is something of a monetarist and , as such , the devaluation of wages , not to mention the debasement of people , does n't seem to worry him . |
| 11 | Chris Evans is something of a star and was a finalist in the ‘ Army Chef of the Year ’ competition in 1989 . |
| 12 | I am a real big fan and Bet Lynch is something of a heroine but I do n't think there are any similarities between Bet and Raquel . |
| 13 | It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me . |
| 14 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 15 | It is something of a paradox that his industry producing luxury fabrics mainly for middle and upper class consumption is of peculiar benefit to the rural poor . |
| 16 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 17 | However , there is something of a mystery as to what caused that origin . |
| 18 | The expression is something of a misnomer because the offerees are the shareholders of the target company , not the target company itself . |
| 19 | By contrast , the movement of lymph , the fluid that bathes the tissues , is something of an enigma and is still not completely understood . |
| 20 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is something of an anomaly that there is no self regulatory organisation for the pension fund industry . |
| 22 | It is something of an accident that the mythical protagonists of the two points of view should have come to be represented as Darwin and Huxley on the one side and Wilberforce on the other . |
| 23 | Indeed , the clinical examination is very often done outwith the presence and earshot of police offices , and the relationship is one between a patient and a doctor . |
| 24 | TRADE SHOWS as they are known , are a normal marketing exercise for most companies , but this is one with a difference because it is about trade itself , the business of manufacturing . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's one with a wall-eye and a wart on her nose who I swear goes to more first nights than we do … ’ |
| 26 | There 's something about a pot that fires the imagination : normally they are on a human manageable scale , are often made to be handled , and have attractive and eye-catching decoration . |
| 27 | So it 's something of a treat that the Discovery has its first British airing at Motorfair . |
| 28 | It 's something of a miracle that Posh are still alive . |
| 29 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 30 | Is it for a refund or |