Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 2 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 3 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 4 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 5 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 6 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 7 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 8 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 9 | The Scots language is taught in a full first-year course as well as in English Language 1 and 2 , and there is also an honours course devoted entirely to it . |
| 10 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 11 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 12 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 13 | There 's even a poisons database . |
| 14 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |
| 15 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 16 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |
| 17 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
| 18 | 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 . |