Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , for most managers , firing someone is not a pleasant experience . |
| 2 | Nobody 's really a missing person till they 're found dead , and then they 're not missing any more . ’ |
| 3 | I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it . |
| 4 | Frequently , and particularly in the untried area of Effects , where everything is virtually a one-off enterprise , trial and experimentation prove the only way to solve apparently insoluble problems . |
| 5 | — the pulled of Arthur pulled a fast one is not a lexical unit because , although it is a word , it is not a semantic constituent . |
| 6 | So long as one is not a dedicated socialist , politics is not initially important ; in any case , the dedicated socialist is unlikely to want to join . |
| 7 | On the other hand we look at the individual bodies themselves and each one is obviously a coherent , integrated , immensely complicated machine , with a conspicuous unity of purpose . |
| 8 | It does look a bit tall , you 're quite right , erm that one 's quite a low one , what about that one ? |
| 9 | Er yeah , I think that one 's quite a nice family album er portrait . |