Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I thought that would be something that a lot of people would
2 It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do .
3 Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want .
4 Again a legal liberty ( that is something that a man may do with legal justification ) may form the basis of blackmail .
5 I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate .
6 And the last part is something that a number of you had for your objectives is and evaluation monitoring and evaluating training .
7 Odette Smith 's long and sometimes painful struggle to reach the weight she wanted is one that a lot of women ( and men ) will sympathise with .
8 The commonest example of a voidable contract is one where a party has by making a mesrepresentation induced the other party to enter the contract .
9 A Super Class 1 transaction ( requiring an immediate announcement to the market , a circular to the offeror 's shareholders and their prior approval in general meeting ) is one where a comparison of the target 's assets , profits , gross capital etc with the value of those of the offeror is 25 per cent or more .
10 I mean , a lot of these grants go sporting wise , very few are arts type grants , and it 's something that a lot of people participate , and a lot of people get pleasure out of .
11 erm and there was nothing that a Member of Parliament could do , this is the trouble I mean it , it with everybody was saying you should of contacted us before it went
12 But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were .
13 So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important .
14 ‘ Another scene cut was one where a man 's brains are splattered over a window . ’
15 With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation .
16 The auctioneer 's smile was naught but a memory .
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