Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I simply a lesbian ? |
| 2 | ‘ Am I simply a substitute for Jeanne ? ’ |
| 3 | Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ? |
| 4 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 5 | Are you just a cabbage ? he wondered — brain-dead ? or are you trying to warn us about something ? |
| 6 | Professor Kingsley was called and asked by prosecuting counsel , ‘ Are you just an expert on the word ‘ bollocks ’ ? ’ |
| 7 | Are you still a virgin ? |
| 8 | Are you still a schoolma'am ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , Dudley , are you still a wanker ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Are you really a film star ? ’ |
| 11 | " Are you really a painter ? " |
| 12 | ‘ Do you do a lot of newspaper reading , or are you more a weekend reader ? ’ |
| 13 | Bob , are you erm head teacher in any classical sense , or are you more a manager ? |
| 14 | Are you now a house owner ? |
| 15 | Are we still an item ? ’ |
| 16 | it gets a bit yeah , which is why I 'm gon na stick with two , I mean now they want to go and see Peter Pan next , when that comes down which will be what probably a month , about once every couple of months they 'll go or once a month |
| 17 | Or are they just a crowd . |
| 18 | Or are they perhaps a bit of both : a species of " braided " psycho-physical events with the two components inseparably interlinked with one another ? |
| 19 | And ask yourself a question , are they really a sort of dirty Harry or sweeney sort of officers you would be lead to believe . |
| 20 | Are they on every week or are they once a fortnight ? |
| 21 | ‘ Were you also a runaway ? ’ she asked excitedly . |
| 22 | ‘ Were you ever a Tiller girl with the new Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd ? |
| 23 | ‘ Were you ever a dancer ? ’ |
| 24 | Were you ever a party political person ? |
| 25 | ‘ Were you really a marine ? ’ |
| 26 | were you never a Girl Guide ? |
| 27 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 28 | ‘ Dipsomania ? ’ enquired Henry Tyler with interest , ‘ or is she just a clairvoyant ? ’ |
| 29 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 30 | What happened to Tina Turner then , is she now a thing of the past ? |