Example sentences of "be [det] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
| 2 | Or is that all a blind ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why is that such a problem ? ’ asked the doctor . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm returning to Malawi to advocate multi-party democracy — is that such a crime ? |
| 5 | Is that such a crime ? ’ |
| 6 | Is that such a crime ? |
| 7 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 8 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 9 | Is half such a policeman as me . |
| 10 | Is this such a case ? |
| 11 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's all such a mess , ’ said Michael . |
| 13 | It 's all such a waste . ’ |
| 14 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 15 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 16 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 17 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 18 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 19 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 20 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 21 | ‘ Poor Daddy , it was all such a bore , ’ she said , turning the pages over hurriedly . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Sally-Anne , wiping her mouth with her napkin , ‘ it was all such a surprise , the evening started out so well . |
| 23 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |