Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a woman in there , a woman staying with him , sleeping with him ? |
| 2 | It was also the anticipation of being hit that was worrying ; would it be a punch in the guts , or the scarred knuckles of a Spaniard 's fist in the eye ? |
| 3 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 4 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 5 | If market interaction takes place repeatedly , however , why is it that firms are assumed to ignore this and treat each decision as if it were a move in a ‘ one-shot ’ game ? |
| 6 | Never having taken much interest in the garden at Four Winds , other than it being a place in which to read or play solitary games , she at first decided that it was probably best to let him have his way ; but his silences began to unnerve her , as much as his occasional seemingly innocent remarks about his previous employers . |
| 7 | It 's a change in their life . |
| 8 | Admittedly , it 's a nuisance in going into crowded banks to obtain cash . |
| 9 | So it 's , it is a , it 's a survival in that m , in in that respect , and ye is t , is merely , erm , an archaic version of the , and and would have been pronounced ye . |
| 10 | I suppose it 's a craft in some ways , and certainly it is quite skilled , but I get bored with it sometimes , an–l only thinking of the use I 'll put those little black torpedoes to keeps me heaving and bending away . |
| 11 | It 's a deposit in the arteries of fat . |
| 12 | It 's a university in Norway . |
| 13 | ‘ I met him , yes — at the Windorah ; it 's a bar in town . |
| 14 | ‘ Dave Jenkins , he runs the Windorah , it 's a bar in the city . |
| 15 | It 's a trend in women 's politics set , of course , by Margaret Thatcher although Virginia is naturally much more attractive . |
| 16 | It 's a , it 's a mark in her face . |
| 17 | They use the idea for designing the interiors of buildings and so on ; essentially it 's a toy in its current form , but it gives you the idea . |
| 18 | To me , it 's a constriction in the throat . |
| 19 | It 's a bit in the Midlands sort of |
| 20 | It 's a chart in the shape of a circle . |
| 21 | It 's a factor in assessing value for money and we also need to have some idea of how the material will fit into our normal teaching pattern . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a village in Somerset . |
| 23 | ‘ This is n't new — it 's a problem in the sales departments of many organisations , ’ says Dr Sik . |
| 24 | Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean . |
| 25 | Terrible , it 's a problem in it ? |
| 26 | Yeah but it 's a flash in the pan . |
| 27 | It 's a scene in which only serious players will survive . |
| 28 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 29 | Unsurprisingly , an Irish Catholic background remains the norm in this pastime , but it 's a tradition in decline . |
| 30 | Because it ca n't be so unusual for girls to be education in a se I mean , I just do n't know anything this i it 's a blank in my mind . |