Example sentences of "what [is] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 2 | This sits on top of what is effectively a bucketful of media which can be sectionalised ( usually in three sections ) to contain several different types of media — which are often as detailed above — mechanical , biological and chemical . |
| 3 | This means making representations at the initial draft stage , when public comment is sought , and going through what is effectively a planning appeal if the first comments are ignored and a formal objection has to be lodged . |
| 4 | The hon. Lady seems quite unaware of the fact that , not long ago , I announced from the Dispatch Box what is effectively a halving of our sub-strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | You simply use the zoom levels to give you what is effectively a page preview . |
| 6 | I walk up the track past the fundamentalist missions , way above the coffee plantations , up into what is nominally a wildlife reserve . |
| 7 | But even writers who have no historical sense , like Mrs Radcliffe ( who provides Emily in 1584 with what is clearly a cottage ornee , complete with greenhouse , ‘ two excellent sitting rooms ’ and a rustic hall ) , are much more observant than their predecessors of different types of houses in the landscape . |
| 8 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 9 | It will take time and we need to introduce some practical initiatives to help what is fundamentally a change in attitude , to take place . |
| 10 | Indeed , Winkler argues that such devices ‘ put a patina of legality on what is fundamentally a destruction of the rule of law ’ ( 1977 , p. 51 ) . |
| 11 | In other words , these early inventions by the Chancellor marked the beginning of what is today a commonplace of English jurisprudence — the splitting of rights of ownership into legal rights ( title ) and equitable rights ( the right to enjoyment ) . |
| 12 | There is a venatio with dogs , a hare , a stag and what is probably a bear with a bestiarius holding a whip in his right hand while his left is covered with a sleeve-buckler . |
| 13 | Paradoxically , what is evidently a fringe issue for the Scottish Law Society is becoming quite fraught within the profession . |
| 14 | The cases fall into two categories : those in which the disposition described in the problem is evidently a legacy , yet the petitioners describe it as a trust ; and the opposite case , where the petitioners describe as a legacy what is really a trust . |
| 15 | • The Glasgow Sunday Mail reports on what is really a fishkeeping success — trying to turn it into a horror story . |
| 16 | The Postlethwait method brings to everyday work some of the vividness of the lead lesson , but presents individually in a carrel , and offers what is really a sort of heavily guided " discovery " . |
| 17 | I mean between actually losing people , at the same time spending what is quite a lot of money on advertising . |
| 18 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 19 | And Malone wants a drastic improvement in what is now a preparation game for next Friday 's Irish Cup semi-final with Cliftonville . |
| 20 | It abuts on to what is now a road running along the frontage of a number of houses . |
| 21 | What is now a temptation would become a compulsion . |
| 22 | Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi 's army were made . |
| 23 | What is now a forest in the Wokingham , Bracknell and Camberley triangle was originally part of a great moor , hence the name of its most famous feature , Broadmoor . |
| 24 | Many men feel a very great sense of despair and discomfort upon entering what used to be their home with their wife , but what is now a house that seems to demand a lot of time-consuming work . |
| 25 | A party of schoolchildren are shushed by their teacher before they enter what is more a sanctum than a room in a museum . |
| 26 | Her lips come together in what is more a grimace than a smile . |
| 27 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 28 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 29 | They do not know that , for once , they will be eating what is almost a peasant dish . |
| 30 | The learning lesson of domesticity sets up what is essentially a relationship between self ( feminine ) and role ( housewife ) . |