Example sentences of "be such a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been such a long time since you 've seen him . |
| 3 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 4 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 5 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 6 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 7 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 8 | God knows — I shall make every effort to write to you of course , but I am such a bad writer and after a while it begins to be very difficult to write the essence of one 's personality and atmosphere on paper . |
| 9 | I 'm such a picky person that everything has to be perfect . ’ |
| 10 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 11 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 12 | And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been . |
| 13 | I saw it as a disaster and it happened , but I did n't think it would be such a hello-goodbye thing as it turned out to be . ’ |
| 14 | In the office , he can be such a hard taskmaster that his closest aide , Gabriella Forte , describes his attitude before each new collection as a ‘ rape of the staff ’ . |
| 15 | And he will rend the plans in twain , what with it being such a nice pub and all , and the lads not laughing at his poncey suit . |
| 16 | ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So I got Laura Parslow to help me , and went to live in the East End , and the only work I could find , being such a fine lady and quite untrained , was as a maid-of-all-work , a skivvy , which I was by day , and wrote my column at night , when my work was over . ’ |
| 18 | But it is such a famous story that we all mistake it for our own . ’ |
| 19 | In a ( faxed ) letter to his old Bradford primary , he tells the pupils : ‘ It seems to me fax will spread everywhere , as it is such a useful instrument and a wonderful way to communicate with each other . ’ |
| 20 | It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown . |
| 21 | It is such a strong signal that it is necessary for us to know more about it . " |
| 22 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |
| 23 | It is important also not to pretend that library censorship is such a small problem that it can be safely ignored . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Supposing that there is such a moral law and that we are under moral obligations , what is their content ? |
| 25 | This does not matter too much , because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms . |
| 26 | I love cooking at home , although Susan is such a good cook that I tend to fulfil the role of kitchen assistant . |
| 27 | It is such a good machine that ! |
| 28 | How blessed you are to live in such a lovely part of England — It is a source of IMMENSE pleasure to me that JONATHAN is such a keen mountaineer and is to make his home here — it will be nice for John in his old age if he , John , deigns to come back to Britain , the native land of which is so very critical , but to whose change or improvement he does what ? ? ? ? |
| 29 | I really admired Bardot after reading it — she is such a committed carer and sounds the alarm bell for the rest of us . |
| 30 | English is such a rich language and has gathered so much from many linguistic sources that you must consciously choose and reject words if you are to write well . |