Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think it 's well known , actually , amongst the computing fraternity , that the best programmers are actually housewives , because basically it 's a question of housekeeping . |
| 2 | What it is , is it 's a what , what , aha what it is er it 's a film and basically it 's a film with spaces in it for Robin Williams just to say jokes . |
| 3 | I think that basically it 's a bunch of hocus pocus. erm Barbara Bryant . |
| 4 | I suppose basically it 's a matter of getting . |
| 5 | She 's good hearted , but basically it 's a waste of money for the wool . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd say in a way that basically it 's a form of a policing job . |
| 7 | Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power , not a populist-based overthrow . |
| 8 | Perhaps it 's a case of money talking and the fans coming second . |
| 9 | Perhaps it 's a way of admitting that things ca n't ever bear the same certainty again . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it is a sign of the approach of middle age in your reporter by the supper did not seem to be as good this year . |
| 11 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is a reflection on the economic failure of communism that its greatest status symbol should have been the most precious household item of the unemployed in the West . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is a challenge to our Church to be a more cross-oriented fellowship , living it , and working out what it means . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is a job for the flying squad . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 16 | Then he added : ‘ Perhaps it is a solution to their difficulties . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it is a judgment on me . ’ |
| 18 | After she died , the renegade thought came into his mind that perhaps it was a surfeit of prayer in those chill damp churches that had killed her . |
| 19 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was a kind of farewell kiss . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was a reversion to humane behaviour after Stalin 's terror techniques . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was a combination of all these reasons . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was a line from a book . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps it was a form of revenge , ’ said Robyn . |
| 25 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 27 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was a descendant of that same animal . |
| 29 | Darlington councillor Peter Jones , Tory spokesman on the transport committee , said : ‘ Obviously it 's a waste of space and I do hope such an excellent facility can be brought into service as soon as possible . |
| 30 | It 's a matter obviously it 's a matter of weight to be given to it . |