Example sentences of "it is such a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love it because it means I get to lots of other countries and see different people and different cultures , and I hate it because it is such a hassle and keeps me away from my family and friends . |
| 2 | The English have a greater talent than any other people for creating an agreeable family life ; that is why it is such a threat to their artistic and intellectual life . |
| 3 | My dear , it is such a rush … ’ |
| 4 | When they er put the new pump in , but it is such a nuisance . |
| 5 | The reason for including R in the picture is that , at least in all existing organisms , successful recombination requires the presence of enzymes , which in turn must be coded for by genes ; it is such a gene that is symbolized by R. The symbol r in Figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective in bringing about recombination . |
| 6 | It is such a shame . |
| 7 | Equally , I am prepared to advocate that , in historical terms , the time has arrived , in the absence of other viable legal institutions , to forsake the requirement of bisexuality and thus abandon the negative definitive criterion of homosexuality , if indeed it is such a criterion . |
| 8 | If it is such a failure , why have we committed £183 million ? |
| 9 | It is such a group of specialists that has helped us write technical briefs on the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations , microwave ovens , BS 5750 , accessible accommodation for the disabled and cook-chill catering . |
| 10 | ‘ Not everyone in Cleveland has heard of us , that is why it is such a mystery how a pastor in Bulgaria got our address , ’ said museum spokeswoman Shirley Heselton . |
| 11 | It is such a landmark that it seems a shame to let it pass without making a permanent reminder of this important occasion . |
| 12 | Only a conception of the novel as an evolving genre will be able to take the potential of this development into account , and it is such a conception which the Quartet adumbrates . |
| 13 | It is such a reception committee . |
| 14 | But there is no doubt that the court has an inherent jurisdiction to strike out any proceeding which is an abuse of its process ; and it is such an abuse to commence and maintain a proceeding which has no prospect whatever of success . |
| 15 | It is such an expectancy that prompts Paul 's question to the Ephesian disciples in Acts 19 . |
| 16 | Within such an institutional arrangement there is , by implication , little room for alternative practices , including those possibilities opened up by the women 's and gay liberation movements of the period , and it is such an arrangement that constituted , for Gummer , the previously existing moral consensus . |
| 17 | It is such an account that my colleagues would prefer to give . |