Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 2 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 3 | ‘ This is basically an idiots guide for making your own beer . ’ |
| 4 | George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 6 | Thus a fifth-century Thessalian inscription uses the phrase ‘ whether under a tagia or in an atagia ’ , that is , whether there is or is not a tagos ( Syll. 55 and ZPE , 1980 , p. 272 ) . |
| 7 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not a police matter but an immigration matter , and he is being interviewed , ’ a Home Office spokesman said . |
| 9 | At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " . |
| 10 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 11 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 12 | Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer ! |
| 13 | The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally . |
| 14 | She 's currently doing the hippy thing with tassled flares , undressed hair and little round sunglasses but the feminine earth mother look is just a clothes change away . |
| 15 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 16 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 17 | Although looking at quilts is n't everyone 's idea of a great day out , organisers are keen to point out that it 's not a women only pastime . |
| 18 | I warned you he 's not a ladies ’ man . ’ |
| 19 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not a wives ’ meeting , it 's a workshop … and you 're behind , Chernayev … ’ |
| 21 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
| 22 | Yeah , I , I could say well that 's not a police issue and then forget about it but that 's not really a good response , ? |
| 23 | It 's not a savings plan . |
| 24 | Well it 's not a savings plan , but in Covermaster , you can take some of the money if , if you need to , if , we 'll tell you that the life cover might be , er , at risk , but you ca n't do that at all in living assurance . |
| 25 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 26 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 27 | So far , shorting is still a specialists ' game , but a growing one . |
| 28 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 29 | There 's probably a knees-up afterwards to which we 're not invited . ’ |
| 30 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |