Example sentences of "[is] a [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's element of everything , there 's a straight f—in' ska piece in one song , and I 've lifted bits from Phillip Glass and Enya and Twin Peaks . |
| 2 | THERE 'S a generally held view that it 's almost always females who are victims of sexual abuse . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I guess once we hear it officially , I 'll be drafting a note saying we do n't think it 's a frightfully spiffing idea . ’ |
| 4 | My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing . |
| 5 | Probably he was his ancestors were from Gascony and came over with William the Conqueror like the name Norman it 's a widely known name in England . |
| 6 | Picking out real sounds through the static is not easy , and I lean forward like an old crone to her knitting , staring at the box like it 's a badly tuned TV . |
| 7 | It 's a carefully targeted contender , completed with a £17,300 price tag and a 2.5-litre 24-valve quadcam V6 engine developing a healthy 165bhp . |
| 8 | In the backwoods of southwest Virginia there 's a little noticed struggle going on-complete with camouflage , weaponry and mercenaries-between the mine owners and the local communities . |
| 9 | There 's a little white-washed room on the campus with a dirty great lump of granite in the middle . |
| 10 | That man is Stephan Heitmann , he 's a little known politician from Eastern Germany . |
| 11 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 12 | Putting her arm round the girl 's painfully thin figure , she said warmly , ‘ It 's a wonderfully set table , Cissie . |
| 13 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 14 | It 's a well made car . ’ |
| 15 | Number five , if the clients wish to switch testing units in any fund into units of any other fund , it 's a well written question is n't it ? the switch will be made from A , was what we were looking for , bid to bid in both funds , bid to bid , and that generally applies on all our stuff , so it 's quite worthwhile knowing . |
| 16 | Sure , but on that , then we get the benefits of scale , and I think it 's it 's a well proven scheme , and I think the the evidence is there , that it is |
| 17 | There 's a well stocked supermarket , shops and a range of eating places to suit all tastes . |
| 18 | It 's a well established school , set up in 1973 and run by Bill Smith . |
| 19 | Ironically , however , it 's a well paid footballer who embodies the Paish doctrine — Leeds star Gordon Strachan . |
| 20 | If there 's something that is n't working , there 's a well known adage with computers , do n't fix it . |
| 21 | It 's a well known passage , about why we should use the Bible . |
| 22 | Well he 's a well known artist . |
| 23 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 24 | It 's a well known fact , however , that good design lasts forever . |
| 25 | It 's a well known fact . |
| 26 | It 's a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world , this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a well organised operation in which the original is sent here by courier and then copied . ’ |
| 28 | It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love . |
| 29 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 30 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |