Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boy is he ever a crook . |
| 2 | We are thus led back to the same problem as before ; although the fact of taking X as end does not justify the decision to do Y , the enjoyment of X which does complete the justification is itself merely a psychological fact . |
| 3 | But it comprised , rather , a history of the West in which fascism was itself merely a symptom , and included not only the history of European imperialism but also the defeats of the European colonial powers by Japan in World War II , the subsequent French ( and American ) defeat in South-East Asia , the war in Algeria , as well as the many other colonial wars of national liberation . |
| 4 | If it is a tort wrongfully to procure a breach of contract is it also a tort to procure the commission of other legal wrongs ? |
| 5 | For television , in particular , where the text is itself both a theoretical problem ( where does a television text begin and end ? ) , and a banal critical object ( in comparison with the things people do with it ) , it may be inevitable that attention fastens on an ethnography of consumption rather than on the objects of production . |
| 6 | However it is clear from a reading of the decision that the no evidence principle was itself simply a natural correlative of the limited theory of jurisdiction which was accepted by Lord Sumner . |
| 7 | 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 . |