Example sentences of "it be [det] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stood there with nothing in our bags we went for my fruit and veg and er , sto there , met this couple who we know we had a right good talk to them about , it were half an hour were n't we ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all an act , my dear . |
| 3 | But it 's all an illusion . |
| 4 | It 's such an advantage to them later on I think . |
| 5 | It 's such an effort and yet I enjoy it so much . |
| 6 | Hm Well your on that side and it 's half an inch too short is n't it ? |
| 7 | Souness admitted : ‘ The temptation is to give him some sort of outing whether it 's half an hour or even a half . |
| 8 | Just , it 's half an hour wanted to watch that on B B C two half past eight to nine o'clock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is such an expectancy that prompts Paul 's question to the Ephesian disciples in Acts 19 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is such an account that my colleagues would prefer to give . |
| 13 | Quite normal to be a little bit more than half an hour but el traffico wardens about an whoever takes your number sort of jus just after you parked then it is half an hour but sometimes it 's not for |
| 14 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 15 | So do n't tell me you knew full well he was n't , it was all an act . |
| 16 | It was all an oven to me . |
| 17 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 18 | Mind you , I think we 've managed to avoid that self-conscious ‘ world beat ’ kind of feel , because we did n't do it on purpose — it was all an accident ! |
| 19 | For me it was such an eye-opener . |
| 20 | He fainted when they moved him , it was such an upheaval thought we 'd lost him then , and then on a beautiful air bed and he looked |
| 21 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 22 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 23 | It was such an effort for him to speak that he almost closed his eyes . |
| 24 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 25 | At that moment I wished she had n't , because she 'd got that tiny baby , and it was such an effort trying not to look . ’ |
| 26 | It 's like when we had no wa , like heating or water , it was such an effort to get yourself up |
| 27 | It was half an inch out at the very least . |
| 28 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 29 | It was half an hour past noon , when the corner hotel was quiet ; an hour when Marie-Angèle could let her slip into the bathroom with her pass key without telling Madame , who would otherwise charge her four hundred francs ( anciens ) for the tubful of hot water . |