Example sentences of "[det] be [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 2 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 3 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 4 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 5 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
| 6 | This is presumably a result of the flexibility of the chain which allows extensive convolution thereby impeding stabilization of the required long range alignment . |
| 7 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 8 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
| 9 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
| 10 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
| 11 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
| 12 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
| 13 | This is partly a consequence of the non-finite or ‘ leaky ’ nature of syntactic systems , which in turn is associated with the relationship between syntax and speaker meaning ( or intention ) . |
| 14 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 15 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
| 16 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
| 17 | This is partly a result of the small sizes of international bond issues , but also a consequence of the long holding periods typical of such bonds . |
| 18 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
| 19 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
| 20 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
| 21 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
| 22 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
| 23 | This is surely a slice of history shown as it really was , and all who served with Bomber Command will be delighted that John Searby recorded their courageous efforts so well . |
| 24 | If such reviews succeed on their merits , this is surely a demonstration of the extent of past missed entitlement . |
| 25 | This is not a question of instinct — culture is learned , not inbred , and does not refer to basic human needs . |
| 26 | He told NME : ‘ This is not a question of a lobby trying to dismantle the independent chart , it 's a matter of an established clique actively obstructing the creation of a chart . ’ |
| 27 | Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares , this is not a question of dominance or bullying . |
| 28 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 29 | This is not a question of the degree of intelligence or education of the adult concerned . |
| 30 | This is not a question of adhering to the structure of the source text for the sake of preserving form . |