Example sentences of "[is] a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 2 | He 's a bloody swine he is ! |
| 3 | Yes , there 's a nice fish and chips at that van that came round in |
| 4 | It 's a nice aircraft . |
| 5 | There 's a nice duck . |
| 6 | Oh yes , there 's a nice duck yes that 's nice mm . |
| 7 | There 's a useful 159lb ft torque at 2100rpm just after the turbo comes on stream , and the lighter three-door has all the power it reasonably needs , even though it is not as smoothly delivered as the Shogun 's . |
| 8 | I mean if I retrain you know , there 's a thousand people for the same job , it 's just looking very bleak . |
| 9 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 10 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 11 | There 's a new pair of swans on the Ryeford canal now … residents are pledged to watch out for them |
| 12 | Oh at least it 's a new series , I hate all the old ones . |
| 13 | Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty . |
| 14 | I said no I was home sick and I in bed like you said I could n't who 's gon na turn round and say well there are Geoff there 's a hundred quid mate |
| 15 | Well , it 's a hundred percent grant that the D of E gives to er the er county council , so then it 's really it 's transferred to us is n't it ? |
| 16 | So if you gave that person ten shares , gave ninety shares to somebody else it 's a hundred percent in total , but if that person then dies cos you do n't want any of his relatives to have it then there 's only the ninety shares remaining and ninety shares will be one hundred percent . |
| 17 | Erm Thirsk , Richmond , Leyburn , Stokesley and in the whole , and that 's a hundred percent . |
| 18 | No , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a hundred percent mortgage is n't it ? |
| 19 | There 's a hundred percent so a hundred and twenty it means it 's more than A 's height . |
| 20 | And there 's a fabulous £1,500 worth of HTA National Garden Gift Tokens , redeemable at garden centres , nurseries and garden shops , to be shared among our monthly prizewinners . |
| 21 | Well certainly there there are in the coming season there 's a many people sitting here tonight will know . |
| 22 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
| 23 | On top of the alder we have a quilted maple veneer , joined down the middle — but it 's not your usual wafer-thin , cosmetic-reasons-only veneer , since it 's a good 2mm or 3mm thick and rather cleverly bent to follow the forearm chamfering on the front . |
| 24 | Now that 's a good sales pitch because a lot of people think you 've got |
| 25 | It 's a personal sales process |
| 26 | A sturgeon 's a Russian fish . ’ |
| 27 | To complete the suit there 's a matching pair of Gore-Tex trousers which , like the jacket , have strategically located Scotchlite reflective patches to warn traffic of your presence at night . |
| 28 | It 's a wonder people have n't had serious injuries from them really . |
| 29 | It 's a special place . |
| 30 | There were differences between lesbians and gay men in those days as there continue to be ; there were differences of race ; there were differences of class ; differences of interest ; so the community is n't a particular thing — it 's a whole series of different things . |