Example sentences of "[det] [is] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately this is such a publication . |
| 2 | One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me . |
| 3 | This is all a bit much for me . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , you 're never going to meet anyone else unless you make the break , and this is all a bit hopeless , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But , ’ warned Kingsley ( and these are his concluding words ) ‘ remember always that this is all a fairy tale , and only fun and , therefore , you are not to believe a word of it , even if it is true . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Are you saying that this is all a mistake ? ’ |
| 7 | No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion . |
| 8 | This is all a story . |
| 9 | Even when presented with photographs showing obvious emaciation from starvation , the sufferer from anorexia may comply with forced feeding through intravenous or naso-gastric infusion in hospital but still continue to believe that this is all a lot of fuss and that other people are the ones who really have problems . |
| 10 | ‘ This is all a world away from the man I know . |
| 11 | Do n't worry , this is all a super-bid for Gazza … |
| 12 | How much is that a week ? |
| 13 | Is that is that a reason ? |
| 14 | Actually that is that a sub-directory or a main one ? |
| 15 | The government is entrusted with the task of protecting the lives , liberties and properties of the individual members of the body politic and there is a reading of Locke which I questioned last Tuesday which says that that is all a government can do . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's all a calculator is . ’ |
| 17 | Erm but that 's all a bit depressing cos talk about the Y T guarantee . |
| 18 | So we want to draw a picture , that 's all a graph is , a picture so it 's eas so we can get a good idea of what 's happening and we can also read off at any time . |
| 19 | In essence , that 's all a standalone fax really is — you could say it was a poor quality copier that prints out its copies somewhere remote from the scanning part . |
| 20 | I think that 's such a con , they even had adverts |
| 21 | That 's half a kilo , six eighty |
| 22 | That 's half a sack . |
| 23 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 24 | From Britain — you 'd probably smuggle it to France , put it through a maze , you know , take it south , country roads ; that 's half a day with two drivers . |
| 25 | I often wonder about this er a demijohn would imply that 's half a john would n't it ? |
| 26 | So we 've said that , so that 's a hundred interview sheets twelve hours in a day usually , unless your name 's Billy , twelve hours in a , half a day , should of said , so that 's twelve hundred times two two thousand four hundred so that 's half a box , call it two and a half thousand |