Example sentences of "'s an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 2 | Well , the agents and the casting directors are one thing , then there 's an amorphous list of anyone who seems to be connected with theatre , film and television . |
| 3 | ‘ Essentially it 's an electronic brochure , but it could be used to promote a branded product , such as a hotel consortium or Agatha Christie weekends . |
| 4 | However , winning the Trophée des Mères Cuisinières will bring her valuable publicity : ‘ It 's an important media event which is bound to attract a new clientele . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't disturb your father , Andrew , ’ Nanny would say , ‘ he 's an important man . ’ |
| 6 | Henry Tyler thought for a moment , ‘ That 's an acronym I have n't come across . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's an interesting little puzzle when you think about it like that . |
| 8 | She 's an exceptionally nice woman . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's an amazing place , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Compassion 's an interesting word — when you break it down it literally means ‘ to suffer with ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's an impersonal thing . |
| 12 | ‘ The woman 's an animal ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's an interesting idea . |
| 14 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 15 | An anniversary poem went to the Queen , and many MPs have been recipients of his comments couched in rhyme on subjects from food irradiation ( he 's an opponent ) to saving the Antarctic . |
| 16 | The wrath of Achilles does n't work like Dostoevsky 's novel at all , and not because it 's an old tale . |
| 17 | He puts in a word on behalf of debauchery because ‘ it 's an occupation of a sort ’ . |
| 18 | He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation ! |
| 19 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 20 | There 's an ecological number sung in typically spacey fashion ‘ The world 's spinning round , like a looney balloon ’ ; there 's an anti-Thatcher song summarising the Prime Minister 's lack of sensitivity in the one charge that she does n't like rock n roll ; and , proving that they are probably the only pop band ready for the single European market , there is an EC tribute : ‘ Down All The Days ( to 1992 ) ’ . |
| 21 | There 's an ecological number sung in typically spacey fashion ‘ The world 's spinning round , like a looney balloon ’ ; there 's an anti-Thatcher song summarising the Prime Minister 's lack of sensitivity in the one charge that she does n't like rock n roll ; and , proving that they are probably the only pop band ready for the single European market , there is an EC tribute : ‘ Down All The Days ( to 1992 ) ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's an intelligent lad with a nice personality . |
| 23 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 24 | Peter 's an extraordinarily cranky man with a venom that became directed towards Katherine . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's an imponderable at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It 's an incredible responsibility , but I was blessed with a chance to do these things . ’ |
| 27 | Visually resplendent — like everything in this production — it 's an effect that also makes vividly manifest the play 's twin concerns of control and unruliness . |
| 28 | I think it is an American character in one of Paul Theroux 's short stories who says of England , ‘ This is n't a country , it 's an interesting room . ’ |
| 29 | He told The Independent : ‘ It 's an experiment … and very respectable . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's an anti-Socialist plot , ’ said the party 's secretary-general , Tsuruo Yamaguchi , threatening to take the magazine to court . |