Example sentences of "be [det] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word group is all the most usual forms of a word ; so table / tables , look / looks / looking / looked , go / goes / going / gone / went are each a word group . |
| 2 | ‘ It do n't seem right , though , askin' for things when you 've been such a kind bloke to me , and doctored me as well . ’ |
| 3 | Cos there 's been such a timetable mess up this year . |
| 4 | ( God , woman — you 're such a drama queen . |
| 5 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |
| 6 | Mrs proposes that there should be such a classroom assistant or an enabler for twenty hours per week that would almost cover the full classroom week of twenty five hours . |
| 7 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 8 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |
| 9 | Is that a school book is n't it ? |
| 10 | Is that a bread knife ? |
| 11 | One way you can is that a juice bottle over there ? |
| 12 | Is that a standing item on the agenda ? |
| 13 | Do you think you 'll need if you have t a team of four on , is that a half team or a six team ? |
| 14 | Is that a Beech tree ? |
| 15 | Is that a wedding Christmas card ? |
| 16 | That little red hoover , is that a car hoover ? |
| 17 | And is that a store cupboard ? |
| 18 | Is that a fire station thing ? |
| 19 | Is that a , but , is that a forest flame ? |
| 20 | Now , is that a pressure group or a representative group ? |
| 21 | X ‘ Los Angeles ’ ( is that a punk rock record ? |
| 22 | Is this a publicity nightmare or perk of budding stardom ? |
| 23 | Is this a Ministry affair , Frau ? ’ |
| 24 | Again , we may ask , is this a faith statement , or a statement of what is the case ? |
| 25 | ‘ Is this a warning sign ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You tell me , or is this a guessing game ? ’ |
| 27 | People have complained — is this a health service problem ? is this a local authority problem ? and that is an acknowledgement of the fact that you can match just about anyone you can find in one service 's bed , with someone in someone else 's service 's bed . |
| 28 | he 's looking , he 's interpreting the peasants as being a very different their nature , motivations being very different and , and they are , th that they are taking action and what he , what he 's saying here is that not only is this a peasant revolution taking place but it is a , it 's a peasant revolution which is being led by the poor |
| 29 | Is this a model shot ? |
| 30 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |