Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nirvana are just a rip off of them really . |
| 2 | The clay tiles that surround this text are just a taste of the wealth of colours , forms and textures that await you . |
| 3 | However , communication links between the trainee and the trainer via a computer are not a substitute for the two-way conversation and observation which normally takes place in a class-room . |
| 4 | On the contrary , the rules of Equity are only a sort of supplement or appendix to the Common Law ; they assume its existence but they add something further . |
| 5 | But can we be sure that the last three decades of sustained growth in crime are not a recording phenomenon ( Bottomley and Pease , 1986 ) ? |
| 6 | Hetton are only a point off the pacemakers after they won by six wickets Langley . |
| 7 | The words could be stored contiguously in an array , so each element of the array would in effect be just a character , and each word would have to be terminated with a dummy character , for example a null character . |
| 8 | Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’ |
| 9 | In support of this submission , Mr. Nicholls relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Donat ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , in which the Court of Appeal held that , on the facts of that case , in which a prosecution witness under cross-examination retracted evidence which he had given in chief implicating the defendant , the judge did not err in declining to withdraw the case from the jury on a submission of no case to answer , the credibility of the witness being essentially a matter for the jury . |
| 10 | If coaching were simply a matter of putting down on a piece of paper 10 points to improve , we 'd all be world beaters . |
| 11 | Many managerial positions involve the employee being both a representative of the capitalist and a worker who is in some degree exploited . |
| 12 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 13 | With the afternoon programme being much a repeat of the morning 's activities we were amazed that both children and adults could retain their enthusiasm . |
| 14 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 15 | Full-time football and a career at a more glamorous club were both a matter of time . |
| 16 | Singer 's religion is also a feeling for the power of the community to censure and reject . |
| 17 | As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion . |
| 18 | Membership of PWI is reportedly a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licencees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of threats for disclosure . |
| 19 | Conversely , where the exothermicity of the association is small ( comparable to , or a few times kT , Figure 4B ) , then there is much residual motion in the associated state , and the adverse entropy of the association is only a fraction of the formal loss in entropy corresponding to the formation of a rigid complex . |
| 20 | Old Shallot is not a liar ! |
| 21 | Once you understand that your Visa card is not a passport into a woman 's knickers , a dinner date becomes a much scarier business . |
| 22 | Despite the structure of the proposal — where the with-profits fund retains a mutual structure , analysts say the deal is effectively a demutualisation because it opens the door to eventual takeover . |
| 23 | Mr Abbott said : ‘ A deal is never a deal until it is signed . ’ |
| 24 | Now to some extent what that 's acknowledging in the role of perception is the fact that perception is n't a bottom-up driven process . |
| 25 | Although social isolation is undoubtedly a problem for many old people , many more do have an active family life . |
| 26 | A partnership is thus a collection of principals and agents . |
| 27 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 28 | I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda . |
| 29 | The contest is traditionally a brainteaser for the form-book pundit but Highbrook appears to have the ideal credentials to topple the poor value favourite Daru . |
| 30 | This contest is not a contest as to who is to lead the party , but as to who is to appoint the leader of the party . |