Example sentences of "is [adv] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 2 | Blunt object I was interested to note that your November cover star Marky Mark is apparently something of a born-again cockney , a fact betrayed perhaps by the self-descriptive rhyming slang on the front of his baseball cap … |
| 3 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 4 | Police fixtures , the Pilgrim Society was started without knowledge of this and is thus something of an odd coincidence . |
| 5 | Mary Crawford says many harsh words about the aspect of marriage for example ‘ there is not one in a hundred of either who is not taken in when they marry . |
| 6 | In an uncertain market and given the water flotation is already something of a lottery , that is a dangerous attitude to take . |
| 7 | Dessert is usually something like a biscuit or small piece of cake or rice pudding or pie and custard ( but dessert is not eaten every night ) . |
| 8 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |
| 9 | It is always something of a memorable sight to see that magnificent banqueting hall employed to its full capacity and that evening was no exception . |
| 10 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 11 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 12 | ’ It is always something of a shock to see black women , sharing equally ( and sometimes more than equally ) in the labor and strife of black people , expunged from the text when history becomes shaped into what we call tradition . |
| 13 | EVEN where , as in the case of the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama , previous experience has been auspicious , a student ensemble is always something of an unknown quantity . |
| 14 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 15 | So if you want to be noticed , and enjoy a more exclusive sense of well-being , there is still nothing like a Rolls . |
| 16 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 17 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 18 | Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery . |
| 19 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 20 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 21 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 22 | She is also something of a populist . |
| 23 | The period is also something of a ‘ Cinderella ’ within teaching and research in British universities , there being only six specialists teaching undergraduates . |
| 24 | Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd itself is also something of a corporate trompe l'oeil : its bonnets may still accommodate itinerant royal bottoms , but its equity — 75% of it — has , since September 1987 , been owned by ( of all things ) Ford . |
| 25 | She is also something of a friend . |
| 26 | As well as being an ardent botanist , Mr Taylor is also something of a historian . |
| 27 | Since this is also something of a retrospective exhibition we have the much earlier painting of her Rome Studio in 1976 , where in a sequence of flat planes she explores every facet of light and the spaces between . |
| 28 | He is also someone on an endless quest for knowledge , who is particularly engaged by the study of foreign languages — German , Italian , Spanish and Danish , as well as French and English . |
| 29 | And in fact nineteen ninety three is really something of a pivotal year because according to at the beginning of ninety three probably something like forty percent of new applications built using the client server model . |
| 30 | And some spake up saying , Well , all right , but it is really nothing but a Co incidence ; iii . |