Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More immediately , at a stage of the season when Rangers are running away with the championship , there may be a reluctance to go public with an announcement confirming that the relegation issue is also a dead duck . |
| 2 | It was always going to be a hard match , the venue is basically a big fish or nothing venue . |
| 3 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Hong Kong is carrying out DNA analysis to discover whether the local dolphin is indeed a separate species . |
| 4 | But many environmentalists believe that that argument is simply a red herring . |
| 5 | On the Government 's own figures this total is almost a million people — 960,000 in fact . |
| 6 | They say that cider is essentially a fermented fruit juice like wine , and therefore it should be taxed like wine . |
| 7 | But the idea of a third TV channel in the Republic is now a dead duck , although the Government plans to have a modest Irish language TV channel on air in about a year . |