Example sentences of "be [det] [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 2 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 3 | His reactions to a challenge and his mode of speech , his capacity , are all those of a boy trained for a certain duty but not distracted from his natural instincts and responses . |
| 4 | Now that Gen Noriega is gone , senate approval of the administrator is likely to be much less of a problem . |
| 5 | If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be much more of a knock-about place , irregularly decorated and very easy to live with , ’ she says . |
| 7 | You I infer from that you er s you saying that if the same thing this is this is that if the same thing were to occur again your approach would be and you 'd be more more of a strategist in the handling of it . |
| 8 | Does the Minister agree that life-long education is a right , not a privilege , and that it should not be any less of a right just because a person happens to be disabled ? |
| 9 | Its head , talons , beak and wings were all those of an eagle , or vulture ; its limbs and torso were human . |
| 10 | If a women is killed , the payment is half that of a man . |
| 11 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 12 | ‘ There is much more of a cross-section at the shows now . |
| 13 | Indeed , man is much more of a threat to these lizards , by keeping them as pets ; their existence in the wild is now threatened by collectors . |
| 14 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 15 | There is much more of a problem , however , if the authorities wish to expand the money supply . |
| 16 | Moffat is much more of a tourist centre than I realised , but a pleasant little town . |
| 17 | The Labour canvassing operation is much more of a team effort . |
| 18 | While the latter is much more of a page makeup program than Fontasy they both produce roughly the same results at the end of the day . |
| 19 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 20 | The real problem is that if solicitors prepare the written brief , there is much less of a case for denying them the right of audience to argue that brief before the court . |
| 21 | Yet Lin believes that there is much less of a problem finding a niche for unfamiliar repertoire in the record catalogue . |
| 22 | It is much less of a pleasure to read . |
| 23 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 24 | There 's much more on a Sunday . |
| 25 | And how 's all this for a tangent ? |
| 26 | She took a drink of her wine , and then , disconcertingly , asked , ‘ What 's all this about a boyfriend ? ’ |
| 27 | This is not because the farm worker is any more of an individualist per se than his industrial counterparts — whatever the stereotypes — but because the circumstances surrounding the farm worker render individual action , rather than collective mobilization , the only realistic alternative for the majority of those working on the land . |
| 28 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 29 | This was much more of a cannon type of thump , almost like a distant firecracker , and it was quickly followed by a second . |
| 30 | ‘ I think there was much more of a sense of rivalry between them , ’ he told me . |