Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But someone here is a murderer who knows how Ruthven died ! ’ |
| 2 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 3 | Blend Six that you 've been trying out here is pretty much my baby , although everything really is a team effort , but that 's why Jason has sent me out here to deal with it . ’ |
| 4 | Well this one here is a water pipe , it 's er what ? |
| 5 | " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass . |
| 6 | Whether this should be called ‘ consummation ’ or something else is a question of definition . |
| 7 | They enable her to get housework done ; thinking about something else is a weapon deliberately employed in the attempt to combat boredom . |
| 8 | Wilkins and others in the early Royal Society were afraid of the metaphors associated with ‘ words ’ rather than things , and feared a science which was really word-play ; but the invention and exploitation of models is akin to the exploration of metaphor , and science like everything else is a field for homo ludens . |
| 9 | He remembers a man with a guitar and a hat on the ground but everything else is a bit hazy . |
| 10 | Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’ |
| 11 | President Clinton is determined to arrest this economic downturn ; he sees it as his overriding task and everything else is a diversion , including John Major 's visit to the White House and the so-called ‘ special relationship ’ between our two countries . |
| 12 | Everything else was a triviality . |
| 13 | Without self-respect , everything else was a sham . |
| 14 | Everybody else was a foe . |
| 15 | For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified . |
| 16 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 17 | Right everyone else is a friend apart from me . |
| 18 | Everyone else was a couple , |
| 19 | There was occasional boredom , people came and went , there might be a technical hitch but more than anything there was a fascination with the moving pictures and that , of course , was the essence of the experience . |
| 20 | Comparison of the sediment influx above and below a date of 48060yrBP ( AD 1405–1450 ; ref. 24 ) at 30cm in core 12 ( Fig. 3 ) indicates that if anything there was a decrease in the erosion rate after the Conquest . |
| 21 | Miele Anything else is a compromise |
| 22 | Impressionism has really made things very difficult in so far as people think that impressionism is a kind of normal state for art to be in and anything else is a kind of deviation from good sense . |