Example sentences of "[adj] be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Programs such as this are an invaluable source of information and can be used time and time again . |
| 2 | I am undecided as to whether this is because the British are an unadventurous and xenophobic nation , or whether it is because boules is a stupid game . |
| 3 | Some success , some are an absolute waste of . |
| 4 | Each of these is sufficiently significant to repay study in its own right , and some are an essential preliminary to understanding catalogues , indexes and shelf arrangement of stock in libraries . |
| 5 | Pages 1 to 30 are an integral part of the report . |
| 6 | Would this be an opportune time to suggest a move to help reduce the fragmentation of the industry ? |
| 7 | Not only would this be an effective riposte — ‘ Touché , ’ he might validly say on his release — but he would be safe in the reassuring knowledge that he need no longer worry about testicular cancer . |
| 8 | Could this be an old hippie pratfall ? |
| 9 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 10 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 11 | The Feathers Hotel is the principal inn , and was used on hiring days , as were most of the other original public houses , this being an agricultural area . |
| 12 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 13 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 14 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 15 | ( Needless to say , this being an English sport , only a minority of England 's counties belong to the championship — and , until very recently , none of the majority could ever hope to force its way in . ) |
| 16 | I think this being an old hag is what is all in the mind ! |
| 17 | The viable nations of Europe were constituted by a line of cultural or linguistic descent , without this being an overriding principle or implying complete ethnic homogeneity . |
| 18 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 19 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 20 | The curve shown in Fig. 6.6 is an augmented Phillips curve which lies vertically above the original Phillips curve ( represented by the broken line ) by a distance , z , which depends on the degree of trade union militancy and the expected rate of inflation . |
| 21 | Self-catering is an obvious one . |
| 22 | This is an undesirable situation because a user of a script recognition system would not expect to write a word , and have it recognised as something which is not a word . |
| 23 | This is an undesirable state of affairs so women must once again be taught , persuaded and encouraged to give priority to their families , and in future social policies should be developed , or indeed not developed , with this aim in mind . |
| 24 | This is an upper triangular matrix T , of which the diagonal elements are the(real) eigenvalues in descending order of modulus , and which still retains the element A14 in the top right position . |
| 25 | This is an all play . |
| 26 | This is an indisputable proposition . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , this is an enticing introduction to the subject . |
| 28 | This is an extra reason to have a combination of foods at a meal . |
| 29 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 30 | This is an ultralight version of the famous ‘ Flying Flea ’ , and several are flying on the Continent . |