Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a friend of mine — a Cheshire Cat , ’ said Alice . |
| 2 | and I think it 's a friend of his . |
| 3 | No it 's a sack of them . |
| 4 | It 's a favourite of mine . ’ |
| 5 | Either way , it 's a criticism of him . |
| 6 | It 's a question of we were told always to be brief , it has to be brief , you ca n't say everything . |
| 7 | So it 's a question of us retaining , because to a certain extent we already have it , due to our customer past . |
| 8 | It 's a question of you pay for what you get . |
| 9 | It 's a kind of I mean it |
| 10 | I feel as if my skin has dissolved down there , and it 's a part of you . |
| 11 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 13 | To tell what the Tories are doing to the N H S , I mean I do n't think it 's a case of us making them aware of what 's happening . |
| 14 | It 's a fault of mine . |
| 15 | It 's a version of We Can Work It Out … by cats and dogs . |
| 16 | Er again it 's a sort of you know like that form that format do n't worry about it if you do it , it 's just that sometimes people will say it 's the change of gesture . |
| 17 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 18 | to say well if it 's a lot of it 's erm maybe there 's quite a lot of figure work or something |
| 19 | Remember , it is a friend of yours . |
| 20 | and it is a case of it 's , it 's problems from the radiation treatment |
| 21 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 22 | You understand that it is a condition of us accepting your booking that you take out for yourself and for those for whom you book our recommended holiday insurance ( details on page 15 ) , or that you arrange a policy yourself giving comparable or better cover under all sections . |
| 23 | The author has asked us to point out that it is a desire of his to see opinions of restorations expressed by speakers at conferences thrown open to the floor for immediate debate this is not the prevailing state of affairs . |
| 24 | so it , it is a sort of it 's a kind of sort of liveish topic it 's sort of in one of those stages where it 's not actually happening yet because a |
| 25 | It is a sort of it seems like almost a national characteristic , and after a while you get used to it again , but it is that is something which really does strike Americans when they come here . |
| 26 | It is also fair to say , and I must be up front about this because it is a matter of it is probably the most sensitive aspect of this whole debate , is about B eight warehousing and distribution . |
| 27 | It is a passion of hers , the history of the Camisards . |
| 28 | It 's been wonderful and it is a lot of we have got two super teachers , that they are enthused by Celia . |
| 29 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 30 | It is an ambition of hers , but she reckons there 's still a long way to go . |