Example sentences of "is [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 2 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 3 | All this , of course , is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation . |
| 4 | And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store . |
| 5 | Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248 , and is well signposted . |
| 6 | Rob Goffee 's research suggests that this disillusionment is about a change in the rules : that the rewards of employment ( security , money , etc. ) are no longer reliable ; that careers are no longer predictable . |
| 7 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 8 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 9 | This street is about a mile in length and runs from one end of the town to the other ; it is ten yards wide . |
| 10 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 11 | For those of you who do n't know where we 're eating , it 's in , it 's in Hall , which is about a mile and a half |
| 12 | Perry once said in NME that ‘ everything I do with Jane 's Addiction is about a rush . |
| 13 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 14 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 15 | Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley . |
| 16 | Cos this next story that I would to share with you is about a boy who I must have everybody sitting on their bottoms all alone please . |
| 17 | Now this story is about a boy who lived with his mother . |
| 18 | This book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn . |
| 19 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 20 | Oh , well air is about a bird I suppose but not what I had in mind . |
| 21 | It is about a man who gets fed up with the New York rat race and forsakes advertising to buy a Gendamerie in Provence . |
| 22 | ‘ Earth Girls , ’ says Temple , ‘ is about a culture in which the make-over is a tribal ritual , one which boasts tanning booths you can dance in . ’ |
| 23 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 24 | It is about a paradise one can not have . |
| 25 | It 's a film called Seventh Heaven which is about a love affair in the sewers in nineteen twenty seven . |
| 26 | I wan na put this er question of what this playhouse is about a back to a stage to the platform because I think that 's where it belongs er were here to criticize but not to initiate . |
| 27 | This is about a factor of 3 smaller than current best estimates of the neutron star radius . |
| 28 | Round the rim of the broader circlet , which is about a foot in diameter , are a series of Byzantine portraits worked in enamel and separated by large rubies and sapphires . |
| 29 | Congress , this composite is about a deceit , a deceit by the Tory government , of men and women , over their working lives women in particular who have been contributing their stamp all their working lives and are now being told that there is a danger that they will not get their state pensions at sixty . |
| 30 | It is about a principle for which people have been fighting and dying for centuries — the indisputable right to self-determination . |