Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , raggamuffin rules and Tuff Gong is just a part of the dollar-hoover tourist industry . |
| 2 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 3 | Neil is Max 's dad ; Neil is also a chiropractor but this does n't concern Ralph at all since his only dealings with Neil are merely in his capacity as Max 's dad . |
| 4 | I mean Mo is only a pet , is n't he ? |
| 5 | The name Currie is possibly a corruption of the Latin word Coria , a meeting place , or from the Gaelic Curagh , a mossy dell . |
| 6 | Kingfisher yesterday tried to counter the view that its 120p-a-share bid for Dixons is only a sighting shot . |
| 7 | Kingfisher yesterday tried to counter the view that its 120p-a-share bid for Dixons is only a sighting shot . |
| 8 | His elder brother Andy is already a £1.25m central defender at Arsenal , albeit an apparent spare part ‘ as sick as a chip ’ says David in George Graham 's 13 piece jigsaw . |
| 9 | WordPerfect is also a subscriber to the competitive upgrade system — see the box — and will often be found offering what is normally high priced kit at a rock bottom price to persuade you to move to their products . |
| 10 | The slim nature of the book , without the detailed and rich research which illuminated The Arms Bazaar or The Sovereign State of ITT is also a disappointment . |
| 11 | Andrew Saxton is already a Commonwealth Bronze winner and was runner up in the World Championships . |
| 12 | But players are also getting used to cutaway acoustics with the whole fingerboard available to play around with , so the Bluebird is really a way of bringing all these factors together in one instrument . ’ |
| 13 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 14 | First , it should be understood that Skymaster is simply a part of Prestel . |
| 15 | My wife Ann is also a dreamer , but fur more practical . |
| 16 | Because Kikkoman is undoubtedly a drop more natural . |
| 17 | After meeting with Klibi on July 21 Shaikh Sabah appeared optimistic of a peaceful settlement , stating that " what is between the brothers in Iraq and Kuwait is merely a summer cloud which will go away " . |
| 18 | Eddie Futch , an 80-year-old who has stars in his eyes again , says : ‘ Riddick is still a baby , he has a lot to learn . |
| 19 | Officially Milton Keynes is still a town , those who live there think of it as a city . |
| 20 | But IRAS is only a survey telescope , with simple detectors and a planned lifetime of around seven months , during which its main task is to sweep the entire sky and catalogue the sources it finds . |
| 21 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 22 | A former chairman of Petworth Parish Council , Mrs. Duncton is also a governor of local schools . |
| 23 | Cheshire County Council 's fair trading and advice officer Roger Manley is also a member of the non-statutory body which assesses the risk to humans of chemicals used or occur in or on food . |
| 24 | ‘ Because you 'll see that Grandson Richard is just a human . |
| 25 | But Fr Eugene is also a missionary , and spends many hours with Buddhist monks talking of Jesus Christ and Buddha . |
| 26 | Roxburgh is now a veteran on the international scene . |
| 27 | The proposals included Crimean economic autonomy , and re-phrased the citizenship provision as : " each citizen of the Republic of Crimea is simultaneously a citizen of Ukraine " . |
| 28 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 29 | Gwendolen 's first glimpse of Ryelands is also a picture — a ‘ white house … with a hanging wood for a background , and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front ’ — but this graceful place , despite the warmth and light inside it , is the context in which she faces the chilling implications of ‘ getting her choice ’ . |
| 30 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |