Example sentences of "it be [conj] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
2 | I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe . |
3 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
4 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
5 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |