Example sentences of "be a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're a great idea for stocking fillers . |
| 2 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 3 | They 're a good way of starting off your suntan before you go on holiday . |
| 4 | So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark . |
| 5 | You 're a terrible bugger for putting things things . |
| 6 | No that , I I just walk like that Sir , they 're suede , they 're a special way of walking . |
| 7 | You 're a silly ass for letting it happen . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 9 | I am a firm believer in extending higher education and in preserving the humanities , by all possible means , against technologico-Benthamite attacks . |
| 10 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 11 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 12 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 13 | In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family . |
| 15 | There has never been a better time for supporting the white rose |
| 16 | And it must be said that while there has been a greater interest in ferreting and in the shooting side of rabbiting the netting interest has declined . |
| 17 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 18 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 19 | Although there had clearly been a great deal of bumping and brawling , Aboyeur 's jockey Edwin Piper declared on unsaddling that he had would not object . |
| 20 | There had been a great deal of fussing tonight . |
| 21 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 22 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 23 | There had been a candlelit Service of Blessing in the tiny church at the bride 's home Compton Chamberlayne in Wiltshire , the previous day . |
| 24 | He has been a consistent advocate of ensuring that the law of the land is adhered to . |
| 25 | As for volunteering generally , the hon. Gentleman will know that there has been a vast increase in volunteering in the whole range of voluntary services in the last decade . |
| 26 | He had been a keen dancer before losing his hearing , and we talked about feeling vibrations of the music on the dance floor through the soles of one 's feet . |
| 27 | In fact , he believes that the formation of C&P has in the event been a powerful factor in enabling research to be rationalized throughout the whole ICI Group . |
| 28 | For all these reasons multi-employer bargaining came to predominate in non-manufacturing industries and , more exceptionally , elsewhere in the concentrated industries of basic steel and the railways where government intervention seems to have been a decisive factor in shaping the bargaining process ( Livernash , 1963 ) . |
| 29 | We know that from time to time , there has been a slight delay in publishing the HMI annual report . |
| 30 | ‘ I think there has always been a slight fear of making massive steps on our own , ’ says Gedge . |