Example sentences of "be [det] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But punishing the child , telling him how naughty he is and how disappointed you are that such a big boy is behaving so stupidly , will not solve the problem . |
| 2 | For every person who lost their job , there are another half a dozen who are frightened it will be their turn next . |
| 3 | The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And we would like the architecture to be as simple as possible , the idea being that such a self-effacing architecture would help lay bare the problems of speech processing . |
| 6 | Or is that all a blind ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm returning to Malawi to advocate multi-party democracy — is that such a crime ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why is that such a problem ? ’ asked the doctor . |
| 9 | Yet , is that such a bad thing ? ’ |
| 10 | Is that such a crime ? ’ |
| 11 | Is that such a crime ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Is half such a policeman as me . |
| 15 | Is this such a case ? |
| 16 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all such a mess , ’ said Michael . |
| 18 | Of course it 's all such a long time ago . ’ |
| 19 | It 's all such a waste . ’ |
| 20 | What astonished everyone , from the time he started winning schools races to the glorious battles at the White City after the war , was that such a weedy looking person could perform such feats . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The answer was that such a technological acceleration would create more jobs than it displaced . |
| 23 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 26 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 29 | ‘ Poor Daddy , it was all such a bore , ’ she said , turning the pages over hurriedly . |
| 30 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |