Example sentences of "[is] [indef pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe there 's nothing a man ca n't do once he 's made up his mind . |
| 2 | There is nothing a baby likes more than to see something brightly coloured an interesting . |
| 3 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 4 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 5 | I leave it in the end — there 's summat a bit scary about him . |
| 6 | " He is everything a butler should be , and a good butler is essential to one 's position ; moreover he is discreet and , as far as I can determine , without a vice . " |
| 7 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 8 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 9 | In the downtown area there is everything a visitor could want including a park for children . |
| 10 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |
| 11 | This is something a bit out of the ordinary . |
| 12 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 13 | What Eileen really enjoys is something a bit different . |
| 14 | This is something a lot of people ignore . |
| 15 | ‘ But surely there 's everything a man needs to live here — food , fruit , fish , breadfruit ? |
| 16 | And the erm , there 's one a bit further which is |
| 17 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
| 18 | Yeah , it 's one a night . |
| 19 | Oh I think there 's one a month , we had one last week |
| 20 | Middle-class notions of respectability enable policemen and women ‘ to tell just by looking at someone whether there 's something a bit suspicious about them ’ and ‘ to be able to recognize a decent member of the public ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 21 | I 'm interested you talk about ‘ stamping of feet ’ , because this fantasy of offing Mrs Thatcher , as though this would somehow solve everything , as if the ‘ evil ’ in this country were n't a lot more structural and entrenched — well , there 's something a bit childish and petulant about it . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's something a bit seedy about this side of the canteen , I 'm afraid , ’ she began , lighting a cigarette . |
| 23 | It 's something a girl dreams she 'll one day do with the man she loves . |
| 24 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 25 | Okay , that 's something a soldier has to accept , in an abstract sort of way . |
| 26 | That 's something a Unix operating system has never achieved , observed Microsoft 's NT director , Dwayne Walker . |
| 27 | It 's something a manager should n't do . |
| 28 | So let's see if there 's anyone a bit more meatier and we get to know their character a bit more . |
| 29 | ‘ I am not sure there is anything a state can do to change the economics of the airline business , ’ Mr Crandall said . |