Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summers are comparatively warm with a moderate rainfall in upland areas of both Regions . |
| 2 | It was beautiful , two people loving one another all these years and Dr Greenslade being too much of a gentleman to leave his wife and family , and Miss Lavant giving birth to a baby and the baby being handed to a Dynmouth woman . |
| 3 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 4 | The United States is still resource-dependent to an appreciable degree . |
| 5 | Mr Hennessy is just one of a string of bosses collecting rises that bear no relation to their firms ' profits . |
| 6 | After such stumbles , Grumman is understandably thrilled by a belated and unambiguous triumph : the success of JSTARS . |
| 7 | Young batting ace Arran Roberts is still doubtful following a leg operation while Hefin Lewis and Quasim Ijaz are Bangor 's danger men . |
| 8 | The Salers is quite large for a mountain breed : mature bulls stand at 152cm and weigh 1,000–1,200kg , and cows 142cm and 650–800kg . |
| 9 | ABES is also involved in a creativity arts training programme , which is supported by WACC and run in cooperation with the Catholic Commission for Social Communications and the Church of Pakistan in Lahore . |
| 10 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 11 | David was very restless as a baby and slept little . |
| 12 | You could have said The Beatles were too much of a Liverpool band or that Woody Allen is too New York . |
| 13 | In collaboration with OROS ( France ) , Alcatel FACE ( Italy ) and the Universities of Rome and Bari , CSTR is also involved in a second ESPRIT project ( SPELL ) to create a workstation to coach non-native speakers ( of English , French and Italian ) in good pronunciation . |
| 14 | But clerk of the course Nicholas Beaumont is still optimistic about an improvement . |
| 15 | The success of the E.H.E. is therefore dependent on a number of factors : |
| 16 | Directors justify holding regional competitions by saying Brazil is too big for a fully blown national championship . |
| 17 | It is undeniable that the individualized character of the Reeve is very prominent as a result of his self-reflexions in his prologue , and that the common theme of the scales of justice in Prologue and Tale invites us to make our own assessments of characters and actions there portrayed . |
| 18 | Shearer was desperately close to a goal and then Mitchell bounced a shot off the bar . |
| 19 | The morning 's visit to the harbour at Porthleven was just one of a whole series of annual ‘ hits ’ and demonstrations carried out by the campaign group Surfers Against Sewage [ SAS ] , which from a St Agnes office has now swelled to close to 7,000 members across the country . |
| 20 | Barnes was desperately unlucky after a magnificent one-two with McManaman to see his volley come back off the foot of the post . |
| 21 | In 1911–12 Major Morrison-Bell MP constructed a model to demonstrate these disparities of distribution and had toured the country with it for propaganda purposes ; the obvious over-representation of Ireland was especially useful to a Unionist party that wished to claim that Redmond was holding the Empire to ransom . |
| 22 | The gardens of Stourhead are historically important as an early example of the union of art and nature , which became known as ‘ le jardin anglais ’ . |
| 23 | The realisation made her want to study the other woman closely , and , covertly , she was able to do so , as Marise and Faye were soon involved in a discussion of the modern Japanese sculpture exhibition which had recently opened at the art gallery . |
| 24 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 25 | I would say that Courtaulds is reasonably healthy in an extremely hostile environment . |
| 26 | LIFFE is also involved in a tussle with the electronic DTB in Germany which is seeking to divert DM contract volumes from London to Frankfurt . |
| 27 | The conception of state-civil society relations which informed Burke 's ( and Smith 's ) thought was highly complex , and certainly Burke was too much of an ‘ organicist ’ to have accepted the Thatcherite idea that society does not exist and that individuals and their families are the basic units of consideration . |
| 28 | Bobo was surprisingly young for a general , being only in his early thirties , and had unremarkable features atop his muscular frame . |
| 29 | Seaford was virtually dead as a trading centre by the time Henry VIII granted it a charter in 1544 . |
| 30 | Mr Martinson was especially grateful for a modern medical process which may mean that his skin will repair without having skin grafts . |