Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Dipsomania ? ’ enquired Henry Tyler with interest , ‘ or is she just a clairvoyant ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 4 | What happened to Tina Turner then , is she now a thing of the past ? |
| 5 | All the time he 's writing as if he 'd seen her undressing , but there 's something just a bit more theatrical about the last two . ’ |
| 6 | Is there somewhere an MOD store , perhaps underground at Box Hill , a long wooden building smelling of oil and blankets , with row upon row of heads , snipers for the use of , gathering dust while the rosy , hand tinted complexions fade to chalk and grey plaster ? |
| 7 | Is there here a tendency to reduce Christianity simply to a movement within history , describable in the favourite Romantic categories of inner awareness and historical development ? |
| 8 | Is there indeed a case for some form of national track authority in place of six regions ? |
| 9 | First , is there inevitably a limit to the resources available . |
| 10 | Why is there often a difference between formal and informal structures ? |
| 11 | As she walked home in the dark , she thought to herself , ‘ Why is there always a catch to it ? |
| 12 | Gamesmanship apart , is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region ? |
| 13 | Is there really a dichotomy of interests between the two ? |
| 14 | ‘ Is there really a tower still ? ’ |
| 15 | Is there really a job there ? |
| 16 | Erm , is there really a danger of this , I see that er , the A C C are supporting the proposal , but is it just another sort of Euro directive that is going to cause a lot of expense and distress to a lot of people who keep pigeons , which is on the whole not a , you know , I was going to say , not a very erm , expensive form of sport or entertainment whatever . |
| 17 | Is there actually a definition difficulty ? |
| 18 | So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ? |
| 19 | Is there now an erosion of purely ‘ humanistic ’ public ethics in favour of those which are nourished by religion ? |
| 20 | Is there still a drought in Britain ? |
| 21 | Is there still a crusade out there someplace ? ’ |
| 22 | Be it never so gloomy — is there still a sofa covered with black velvet ? |
| 23 | Is there still a district nurse as such ? |
| 24 | Is there still a district nurse as such ? |
| 25 | Is there still a future , or is it too costly , and why are the public now not willing to purchase more Free Range Eggs if they were available ? |
| 26 | Is there still a boycott at the canteen ? |
| 27 | Beautiful part of the world , you know , maybe that 's exactly what you wan na do , you wan na kick out Wolverhampton and go for Mytholmroyd particularly if you 've got a house or if your father 's got a house there which is there maybe a lot , a lot , a lot going for it but you 're looking for this long term prospects |
| 28 | Is there ever a reason to use two disk cache utilities ? |
| 29 | Not only is it increasingly a recipe for lower profits but also results in higher staff turnover , struggles in recruitment ( graduates prefer the lean and adaptable to the slow and inflexible ) and a gradual loss of customers as competitors win the race to innovate . |
| 30 | Is it normally a solid or a liquid or what ? |