Example sentences of "it [is] a [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perform well whatever assignments you have , have you noticed the Watchtower that were studying today , we 've all got it with you I think , just turn to page twenty six turn to page twenty two , you 'll see what it 's about , it 's about a brother Roy , who has always advocated sticking close to Jehovah 's organization , guide to organization , give you a life story , and it 's quite interesting reading , and again it 's a test of your alertness , your vigilance , whether or not your spirits be awake or not , is this the first time you 've seen that article ? |
| 2 | It 's a test of his imaginative sympathy . |
| 3 | I think it 's a function of what incentives we 're going to give them . |
| 4 | It 's a function of your relationship to me , d'ye see ? |
| 5 | It 's a measure of their commitment to the cause of good design that their paramount concern is to make a page whose information can be readily absorbed , rather than to devise one for which the reader might need sunglasses . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a friend of mine — a Cheshire Cat , ’ said Alice . |
| 7 | and I think it 's a friend of his . |
| 8 | No it 's a sack of them . |
| 9 | It 's a favourite of mine . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a sign of what 's wrong with the play that the quoted comments could serve equally well as a thumbnail summary of the text itself . |
| 11 | Either way , it 's a criticism of him . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a criticism of my work , and I 'm not standing for it . ’ |
| 13 | And really erm it 's a question of what board members would find the most useful and erm and |
| 14 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |
| 15 | ‘ Fairness ’ said Roger , ‘ does n't come into it , it 's a question of what is best for you ’ . |
| 16 | It 's a question of what happens from now on that 's very important . |
| 17 | Yeah , it 's a question of what goes up comes down . |
| 18 | Well , it probably would ; it 's a question of what kind of profile one wants a university to have . |
| 19 | If you 've got to act , you 've got to act , there 's no sense about it , it 's a question of something inside you compelling you , not letting you do anything else — the stage is your life , you do n't care about pay or conditions or — ’ I dried up . |
| 20 | It 's a question of we were told always to be brief , it has to be brief , you ca n't say everything . |
| 21 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 22 | It 's a question of whose point of view it 's too far round from . |
| 23 | So it 's a question of us retaining , because to a certain extent we already have it , due to our customer past . |
| 24 | It 's a question of who stumbles into mediocrity first . |
| 25 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 26 | It 's a question of you pay for what you get . |
| 27 | Yes it 's a noun , it 's a name of something is n't it ? |
| 28 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 29 | I think it 's a reflection of their motivation , because I 'm not a subject specialist . |
| 30 | It 's a kind of I mean it |