Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 2 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 3 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 4 | I think it should be done a lot younger as well . |
| 5 | If such a home places its residents under the care of a consultant psychiatrist , surely it should be called a hospital . |
| 6 | Yes , I think this is what 's tended to happen is people call the system , i.e. the central processing unit — which is really the microprocessor , the memory and the interface circuits — as a microprocessor , when really it should be called a microcomputer . |
| 7 | If 1T82 had anything to do with the outbreak of mass hysteria among would-be buyers , sellers , makers , and so on of microcomputers , then it must be judged a success . |
| 8 | It might be argued a contrario that the term " shop assistant , draper 's assistant etc. " which is recorded for some of the bridegrooms , suggests that " grocer does indeed refer to a shopkeeper . |
| 9 | It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids . |
| 10 | Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course . |
| 11 | McJannet said : ‘ With both Darlington and Torquay in the bottom three , it could be called a six-pointer . |
| 12 | It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time . |
| 13 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 14 | In fact we i it would expressed interest it will be expressed a week on Monday . |
| 15 | It will be paid a fee for its various operating services estimated at between $15,000 and $50,000 per unit per country plus a 5% sales commission at transfer cost . |
| 16 | If it can be called a childhood , that is : from the nursery where he learned to be ‘ Chairman Mao 's Good Little Boy ’ onwards , his early life was racked by one political movement after another . |
| 17 | There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all . |
| 18 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 19 | Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it can be made a kind of elective institution . |