Example sentences of "[be] [Wh adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests have included the Rolling Stones ( ‘ strenuous ’ is how a hotel spokesman describes their stay ) . |
| 2 | This is how a car body starts its life . |
| 3 | There is also the danger of a stroke which is when a blood clot occurs in the brain and the blood supply is cut off . |
| 4 | This is where a building society comes in . |
| 5 | Another problem is where a function word in the target language has the same meaning as in your own language , but does not occur in all the same contexts as it does in your own language . |
| 6 | A point to watch here , is where a credit card holder applies for an extra card on the same account . |
| 7 | This is where a phase book is most important . |
| 8 | I suppose the , the example of that is where a house wall was pushed in by the , the mass that was thronging outside the Brunwick gates . |
| 9 | Of course this is where a mountain bike could come in handy , but you 'd have to put up with walkers pointing at you and shouting ‘ tosser ’ , and landowners chasing after you with a stick as another slice of expensive path slides into the burn after being cut neatly away by fat tyres . |
| 10 | This is where a sales idea could come in , but for the right reasons it could be good , but also , for the bad reasons , it could be totally wrong . |
| 11 | That 's why a blood donor if they 've given a pint of blood they 're told not to smoke afterwards if they 're a smoker . |
| 12 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 13 | There was a yard behind the shop with an entry off the street ; it was cobbled and the stable was where a delivery pony had once been kept . |
| 14 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 15 | TIME was when a slide rule was the ultimate in classroom one-upmanship , but these days , it seems , no pupil should be without his , or her , robot . |