Example sentences of "'s [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mostly a matter of timing … but I 'll do what I can . |
| 2 | I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's rather a lot of paperwork here , things that you should be aware of . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’ |
| 5 | ’ I would n't call it ‘ confiding ’ exactly , but I ca n't pretend it 's altogether a matter of indifference to me , can I ? |
| 6 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 7 | Oh , so it 's only a bit of corn . |
| 8 | And it 's only a bit of entertainment , and we must really stand up and say this is our game and , it belongs to us ! |
| 9 | The mind reels at such extremes of scale , yet the man responsible dismisses it lightly : ‘ It 's only a bit of fun . ’ |
| 10 | It 's only a bit of fun . |
| 11 | If there 's only a bit of beef you have the beef and I 'll have some cheese . |
| 12 | and erm , James said you not going out in this surely , yeah , yeah , it 's only a bit of rain and he come home and he was drenched right the way through top to bottom |
| 13 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's only a circumstance of self that nothing reconciles . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I know all about that , ’ she returned airily , ‘ but it 's only a drink of rum , after all … ’ |
| 16 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 17 | It 's only a pile of rubble now the Great Killer has finished with it . |
| 18 | Now I 'm at college there 's only a kind of vacuum . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only a merchantman at port , young man . |
| 20 | There 's only a bag of peat on the doorstep , here it is look , indoors |
| 21 | It 's only a piece of wood that 's do you know what that is ? |
| 22 | Well , so you can do one sweep , you know without jumping over , well there 's only a piece of board up there is n't there ? |
| 23 | We just cos we do n't ins , it 's only a piece of paper to us , you see . |
| 24 | Well , it 's only a matter of parking at , parking your own car as well |
| 25 | Sometimes he stays around , but it 's only a matter of convenience when we 're working . |
| 26 | It 's only a matter of time before we will see a Centre Centre , where the visitor can enjoy a fascinating audio-visual presentation of the large varieties of Centres throughout Scotland . |
| 27 | Although it has n't happened yet I 'm sure it 's only a matter of time before he makes a pass at me . |
| 28 | It 's only a matter of time . ’ |
| 29 | It 's only a matter of time before we give some team a damn good hiding . ’ |
| 30 | They set you up , they say you 're hot , and it 's only a matter of time before they 're saying you 're cold . ’ |