Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of you 'd be surprised how gullible a lot of people are and frankly a lot of shopping problems do turn out to be the shopper 's own fault . |
| 2 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 3 | The result is that today a recording is seldom the transcription of a single musical event . |
| 4 | Mm well the correct answer is is that normally a Thursday but there is no statutory er obligation that it is Thursday . |
| 5 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 6 | Even more alarming is that over a third of the victims are not directly touching the dog in any way at the time of the attack , according to US studies . |
| 7 | ‘ Hey , did you say something about buying me some lunch , or is that just an approach to win a girl 's confidence ? ’ |
| 8 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 9 | One possible factor in the success of some of these marriages is that quite a few women do seem to get a kick out of seeing men dressed up in women 's clothing , though I do n't know why . |
| 10 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
| 11 | Is it when the purchaser puts his money in or is that merely an offer which the machine accepts ? |
| 12 | What this entails is that once a charge becomes enforceable , the chargee may thereupon take whatever steps are available to enforce the charge since English law places no significant impediments in the way of the right of enforcement of a charge . |
| 13 | The choice of this measure is not arbitrary , for the argument now is that typically a bourgeois client brings an issue to a lawyer , which the latter translates into a meta-language in terms of which a binding solution can be found . |
| 14 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 15 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 17 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 18 | The exception to this is that only a parent may receive the results of the pupil 's assessment . |
| 19 | Deep in the shade of the forest , few flowers are formed and pods are even rarer , for another peculiarity of cocoa is that only a tiny proportion of flowers — less than one per cent — are successfully pollinated . |
| 20 | The best medical advice is that only a qualified medical person should make the check . |
| 21 | One of the advantages of using stripes for a garment is that only a small amount of each yarn is needed and the width of the stripes can also be varied , depending on the amount of each yarn which is available . |
| 22 | The first feature to note is that only a small minority of the listed inhabitants — five persons out of forty-seven — owned any land at all . |
| 23 | It is clear from the above that under the new provisions the general principle is that only a private investor has a right of action for a contravention to which s.62 applies . |
| 24 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 25 | One problem , however , is that only a subset of all texts do in fact have what might loosely be called a story structure . |
| 26 | But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly . |
| 27 | The good news is that only a tiny percentage of these viruses are found in the ‘ wild ’ , perhaps as few as 50 . |
| 28 | What emerges from our discussion of these different aspects of sentence and discourse comprehension is that only a very complex model will suffice to explain the inter-relation of all the different factors which appear to form a part of language comprehension . |
| 29 | The essence of the public choice problem is that only a single decision can be made and the conflicting preferences have to be reconciled . |
| 30 | The trouble is that only a few are privileged to see that side . |