Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] be a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this should be called ‘ consummation ’ or something else is a question of definition . |
| 2 | Wilkins and others in the early Royal Society were afraid of the metaphors associated with ‘ words ’ rather than things , and feared a science which was really word-play ; but the invention and exploitation of models is akin to the exploration of metaphor , and science like everything else is a field for homo ludens . |
| 3 | For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified . |
| 4 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 5 | There was occasional boredom , people came and went , there might be a technical hitch but more than anything there was a fascination with the moving pictures and that , of course , was the essence of the experience . |
| 6 | Comparison of the sediment influx above and below a date of 48060yrBP ( AD 1405–1450 ; ref. 24 ) at 30cm in core 12 ( Fig. 3 ) indicates that if anything there was a decrease in the erosion rate after the Conquest . |
| 7 | Impressionism has really made things very difficult in so far as people think that impressionism is a kind of normal state for art to be in and anything else is a kind of deviation from good sense . |