Example sentences of "[ex0] be [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also sorry , excuse me like the other points there are you a smoker , no my wife does , she smokes twenty was you a smoker |
| 2 | I leave it in the end — there 's summat a bit scary about him . |
| 3 | ‘ But surely there 's everything a man needs to live here — food , fruit , fish , breadfruit ? |
| 4 | I believe there 's nothing a man ca n't do once he 's made up his mind . |
| 5 | And the erm , there 's one a bit further which is |
| 6 | Oh I think there 's one a month , we had one last week |
| 7 | Middle-class notions of respectability enable policemen and women ‘ to tell just by looking at someone whether there 's something a bit suspicious about them ’ and ‘ to be able to recognize a decent member of the public ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 8 | I 'm interested you talk about ‘ stamping of feet ’ , because this fantasy of offing Mrs Thatcher , as though this would somehow solve everything , as if the ‘ evil ’ in this country were n't a lot more structural and entrenched — well , there 's something a bit childish and petulant about it . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's something a bit seedy about this side of the canteen , I 'm afraid , ’ she began , lighting a cigarette . |
| 10 | So let's see if there 's anyone a bit more meatier and we get to know their character a bit more . |
| 11 | Erm so it 's in terms of erm er , careful logical field work erm there 's not a great deal of information , but there 's , th , there have been early anatomical historical er investigations and there is something a literature erm dating from early in the nineteenth century which and it shows you the bloke who also resolves to , to , to make comparisons with what she found . |
| 12 | There is nothing a baby likes more than to see something brightly coloured an interesting . |
| 13 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 14 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 15 | In the downtown area there is everything a visitor could want including a park for children . |
| 16 | Is it you know in terms of erm in the flats f erm is there any how how do people you know of different you know white and coloured people do do they get on o okay or is or is there is there a problem there or not ? |
| 17 | Would there be I mean is there is there a possibility of getting some some of our younger people |
| 18 | Now can you show me here any are there any pieces there is there a piece there that would be a third ? |
| 19 | is there is there a pulling o off people 's schedules just now , people sort of central sort of information point |
| 20 | ‘ I am not sure there is anything a state can do to change the economics of the airline business , ’ Mr Crandall said . |
| 21 | One said : ‘ Most people in this area always felt there was something a bit odd about him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always thought there was something a bit sad about grown men waving guns about like that . |
| 23 | She wanted us to make her a Shaker-style chest , and there was something a bit peculiar about the dimensions , so Luke and I went to Bracken Cottage . |
| 24 | Sir Ralph Howell would have induced confidence , even in schoolmasters ; there was something a bit dodgy about Sir Ralph Grunte . |