Example sentences of "[det] be [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head . |
| 2 | Because especially when someone says , you know , this is what a continuous function is . |
| 3 | Yet we should not forget that communication does involve handling everything together , usually at high speed , and that this is what a successful language student must eventually be able to do . |
| 4 | This is what a small thing , cooking a few Indian dishes in a Willesden school , led to . |
| 5 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 6 | This is itself a formulaic list ( cf. the Nun 's Priest 's Tale : VII : 2912 – 17 ) . |
| 7 | This is itself an important stage in the process because a well prepared advertisement will enable the recipients to engage in self selection which does not , at this stage , involve further selector resources . |
| 8 | Still less is there an easy solution to be had from Labour 's new leadership contest . |
| 9 | Ethnicity on the other hand , whatever it may be , is not programmatic and even less is it a political concept . |
| 10 | The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community . |
| 11 | The cost of coverage of a typical meeting was £1,412 , and that is what a single customer would have to pay , but when many channels have been interested , the price has fallen as low as £36 . |
| 12 | Mr Mellor is no soft touch , as those within the industry who had to negotiate with him quickly discovered , but he is accessible to reason , and that is itself a great advance on what had been experienced before . |
| 13 | Shut the doors and they do n't thud with the solidity of a Rover 800 , but neither is there a tinny clank . |
| 14 | Neither is there a clear distinction between the concept of paradoxical pain and that of overmorphinisation and overwhelming pain syndrome . |
| 15 | The question is never resolved , but neither is it a new question . |
| 16 | Neither is it an expensive luxury for those who prefer to travel by rail . |
| 17 | Neither is it an image-building centre capable of transforming politicians and public figures . |
| 18 | That 's what a nice guy he could be . |
| 19 | That 's what a great library is all about … books so magnificent that they are your pride and joy … a statement about you . |
| 20 | That 's what a new appeal from the Stoke Mandeville Burns Unit aims to find out . |
| 21 | That 's what a clever girl would do . " |
| 22 | Whereas creating a rich peasant economy will work immediately cos that 's what a significant number of people in , in the countryside will actually go along with and want . |
| 23 | ‘ You expected me to drop my life and my career for you because that 's what a Majorcan girl would have done . ’ |
| 24 | Norway that 's it a Norwegian woman |
| 25 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 26 | It was n't rain forest , but neither was it an English oak wood . |