Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [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 | 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 ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |