Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 2 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 3 | It also seems inescapable that , however much conscious experience depends on the orderly biochemical working of the body , consciousness is itself outside the ordinary material concepts of matter and energy . |
| 4 | The string quartet on this EMI disc promises at first to be an effective and not unoriginal exercise in the expressionist tradition , but the end result is something of a disappointment . |
| 5 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 6 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 7 | So what chapter is it at the top ? |
| 8 | Indeed ‘ the whole piece is something of a dream ’ ( Hugo Young , The Guardian , 21 June 1988 ) , in which ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ ( according to Pearce ) because ‘ any resemblance between it and the world of 1988 is due to administrative oversight ’ ( Patrick Stoddart , The Sunday Times , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Yet the current proportion of civilians to soldiers in the UN-led force is one to a hundred . |
| 10 | Multiprotocol is something of a misnomer — currently only TCP/IP and SNA are supported , although there is a promise to extend it to Open Systems Interconnection in the future . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , from brain to bowel is something of a comedown for the endogenous opiates . |
| 12 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 13 | Red blood is nothing before a blue stocking ! ’ |
| 14 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 15 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 16 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 17 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 18 | A fair number of towns of this rank were reputed to be boroughs , though incorporation was something of a rarity and might well depend on special circumstances : Rye , Winchelsea and Hastings , for example , were Cinque Ports . |
| 19 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 20 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 22 | It seems likely that a well-recalled ad is something of a bonus to a brand , but little more than that . |
| 23 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |
| 24 | The Red Panda is one with a rich red glossy fur on the back and dense dark fur beneath . |
| 25 | Snow Blizzard is something of a quirky character but would win Lingfield 's mile and a half Taurus Handicap if adapting to the all weather surface . |
| 26 | What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public , for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer . |
| 27 | One approach to the relationship between bureaucracy and class is to say that the bureaucratic stratum is itself in the process of becoming a class in almost every sense of the word , and the dominant class at that . |
| 28 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 29 | I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says . |
| 30 | A closed question is one with a fixed number of alternative replies . |