Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] a [noun sg] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Harberton The Ulster Operatic use th erm no , but I mean , I a , because I was n't a member it was like one show was okay , and the pantomime as well . |
| 2 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 3 | There 's always a risk it may be hijacked but even a minimal military force accompanying it would warn the Serbs that the West meant business . |
| 4 | It 's not a culvert it 's two pipes that takes the water in ordinary times , ordinary river level , across the road but if there is heavy rain the ford , you 'll find that the ford will be always flooded so er it wo n't be alleviating th the flooding of the , of that part of the road . |
| 5 | It 's not a verb it 's just the |
| 6 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 7 | It 's not a cinema it 's the Mercury Theatre . |
| 8 | Which is ten a side so it 's not a physical it 's more a running game . |
| 9 | But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens . |
| 10 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 11 | It 's not a thistle it 's a er |
| 12 | A pad , it 's it 's not a pad it 's an actual hole . |
| 13 | The trouble with the American red , it 's a , it 's , it 's not a maroon it 's a |
| 14 | There are promising off-stage noises , heading in the right direction , if it 's not a missile it 's coffee as just been pointed out . |
| 15 | It 's a cat entails It 's not a dog It 's a carnation entails It 's not a rose John is the one who is walking entails John is not the one who is running John is near the building entails John is not in the building |
| 16 | It 's not a common it is n't a common problem at all that . |
| 17 | Well it 's not a lot it 's only really the length which is different is n't it ? |
| 18 | Otherwise this is an excellent warm jacket , it 's just a pity it 's limited by its design . |
| 19 | And differentiated it and it gave me K T well forget about the K it 's only a number it 's only |
| 20 | Now in a sense , it has n't changed it 's form one little bit , it is still a pound it is still currency , it still has purchasing power , the only problem is , it 's just out of your reach , and you ca n't get at it . |
| 21 | Oh he 's not a character it only works in |
| 22 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 23 | It was n't a Ford it was Japanese |
| 24 | it 's in first Corinthians , it talks about for , I think I 'm in a vision of the third heaven , which was actually a vision , it was n't a reality it 's like a revelation was a vision , I do n't think it was the reality of heaven was it ? |
| 25 | And they went back and they bought this really big house , well it was n't a house it was a shell . |
| 26 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |