Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , for most managers , firing someone is not a pleasant experience . |
| 2 | Nobody 's really a missing person till they 're found dead , and then they 're not missing any more . ’ |
| 3 | But , just as nobody actually eats babies , so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against . |
| 4 | I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it . |
| 5 | Thus discussion lessons can often give the impression that everything is just a matter of opinion — there need be no rigour , for " it 's all subjective anyway " . |
| 6 | Everything is just A Phase |
| 7 | Frequently , and particularly in the untried area of Effects , where everything is virtually a one-off enterprise , trial and experimentation prove the only way to solve apparently insoluble problems . |
| 8 | ‘ Everything is really a chemical , ’ he cried one day to a pupil who said they wanted to learn about something else . |
| 9 | ‘ Everything 's just a game , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | This one is n't a novel , but a personal travelogue whose scenario can be summed-up thus : successful , celebrated author buys an old biplane and sets off across America to recreate the old barnstorming days while rediscovering himself and his country and … |
| 11 | There is one final item which appears valuable but innocuous enough , if one is n't a daemonologist . |
| 12 | ( So long as one is n't a ‘ creep ’ of course ) . |
| 13 | So long as one is not a dedicated socialist , politics is not initially important ; in any case , the dedicated socialist is unlikely to want to join . |
| 14 | — the pulled of Arthur pulled a fast one is not a lexical unit because , although it is a word , it is not a semantic constituent . |
| 15 | If one holds , of Christ , that he was , in whatever way , unique , then one is clearly a Christian . |
| 16 | On the other hand we look at the individual bodies themselves and each one is obviously a coherent , integrated , immensely complicated machine , with a conspicuous unity of purpose . |
| 17 | One is now a Church of England minister and another was the girl he eventually married , Veronica . |
| 18 | Domestic sexism does not guarantee sexism in public affairs , although one is often a symptom of the other . |
| 19 | This English pantomime tradition Ashton also exploited earlier in his choreography for the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella where he followed the tradition that one is always a somewhat modest violet bossed about by her dragon of a sister . |
| 20 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |
| 21 | With the old F sixteen its like a couch , you sit like that , its just the joy stick in your right hand and you 've got all your buttons there , whereas the old Russian one 's just a p , a normal sit up and on a joy of a column , its amazing how they fly , make those flew once they do |
| 22 | Er yeah , I think that one 's quite a nice family album er portrait . |
| 23 | Yeah , and going over jumps and god knows what else which one 's quite a way really is n't it ? it 's quite comfortable eleven , eleven and a half , eleven stone over jumps in n it ? |
| 24 | It does look a bit tall , you 're quite right , erm that one 's quite a low one , what about that one ? |
| 25 | ‘ The writing world is like the music business — they wait until something is already a success . |
| 26 | What will or would cause something is not a cause , but only a possible cause or potential cause , until or unless the effect actually occurs . |
| 27 | You can see why everyone is not a Highsmith fan , and perhaps why some of us are impassioned ones . |