Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [am/are] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | At heart I 'm just a reporter , out on the road with a film crew . " |
2 | ‘ At least , I could n't fault him , but of course I 'm only a beginner . ’ |
3 | It 's a mister you 're just a snowman . |
4 | If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil . |
5 | Some of the ones I passed were two or three pound they 're only a pound over there . |
6 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few chordal/arpeggio ideas used . |
7 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few arpeggio ideas employed . |
8 | The CAN' T-get-away-with-anything ( darn it ! ) calorie counter : If you belong to this category you are probably a little person . |
9 | And we thought we knew enough about , at the moment there are still a lot of needs that people had already raised that had not been addressed . |
10 | And as not everyone can be a mould-breaker there are still a lot of traditional comedy shows on television . ’ |
11 | But by their very nature they are only a few lines on a piece of paper at the moment . |
12 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
13 | At the end of the day you are either a sticker person or not a sticker person . |
14 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
15 | To give more power to the carver 's elbow there are now a wide range of electric carving systems , and here we test a selection of machines and tools that may offer more than a saving in time |
16 | On vinyl they are more a twitchy , jangling beat group and ‘ Whoa ! ’ is something like ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ attempted by Talking Heads and The Charlatans in bizarre collusion with Enya and Booker T. Which is probably why it 's five minutes long . |
17 | Bismarck was ‘ unwell ’ and the French emissary was reduced to seeking an interview with First Secretary Thile , who pretended to be totally ignorant of the whole business , which was a flagrant lie , and who said : ‘ In any case there are quite a few Princes … which one is it ? ’ |
18 | Similarly it is assumed that the conditions under which the reading will take place are the same as those of writing which are usually a clean well-lit office . |
19 | You 're just a devil woman you 're just a devil woman |
20 | Rubbish they 're probably a lot more expensive to run than this |
21 | This aspect of homoeopathy is the one most akin to the vaccinations of the orthodox approach which are really a homoeopathic application . |
22 | He 's the butler There are usually a few words in a language that can only be used gesturally : for example there are presentatives like French voici , and toasts like British English cheers . |
23 | In addition to the above scale there are also a couple of arpeggio ideas used , and these are both F phrases — sus4 ( F , B♭ , C ) and F Major ( F , A , C ) — and they are played in bars 2 and 6 … |
24 | By profession I am both a Christian and an economist . |
25 | Please lend a hand I 'm only a person wo n't you listen Oh oh oh ! |
26 | Your fifty-four next birthday you 're only a couple of months off . |
27 | Even on my own world there are only a few who earn the title of sei-sen — sword bearer . |
28 | But even if you are convinced that David wrote the Psalms and Moses write the Pentateuch there are still a lot of other books in the Old Testament . |
29 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
30 | This is the first time I 've ever had a show and if you look at my show they 're basically a lot of single images . |