Example sentences of "[be] [adj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 2 | Where the sewers are private an easement will be required from the original developer to effect a connection . |
| 3 | The picturesque village and castle of Glamis ( a royal residence since 1374 and the family home of the Earl of Strathmore ) are half an hour from Dundee . |
| 4 | We are half an hour from Cardiff and two and a half hours from London along the M4 . |
| 5 | Your first couple of lessons are half an hour take you driving anyway , and by the time you get up there you 'd drive onto them . |
| 6 | Well , they moved off and then just getting back to sleep must of been half an hour after we 'd and heard this voice shout what you doing ? |
| 7 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 8 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 9 | But Coun Wigley said he was in contact with a lot of local people and had there been such an incident he would have heard . |
| 10 | Dwyer , who guided the Aussies to World Cup victory last year , insists : ‘ There has been such an improvement in Welsh rugby it could be us who go in as underdogs . ’ |
| 11 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 12 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 13 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 14 | He was young and fit , and had been half-expecting an attack . |
| 15 | Well , imagine the reaction if you could nonchalantly mention that your strings were made from magnetically active nickel steel with a reinforced twist at the ball end because you are such an animal when it comes to whammy-bar aerobics ! |
| 16 | Where witnesses are unavailable an admission to being involved is helpful . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me , Miss Levington , ’ he enquired with silky smoothness , ‘ as you 're such an expert on human nature , why did Giles Denton make a point of publicly embarrassing you at the Grand Hotel ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Chris , you 're such an innocent . |
| 19 | I mean that 's like , that 's like saying no man you 're such an umpire or something . |
| 20 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 21 | When both electrodes have been pre-heated an arc is struck between them ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 22 | Mr Sharma told the United News of India agency : ‘ I am sure an agreement will be reached with the militants tonight or tomorrow morning , as we will release the terrorists demanded by them . ’ |
| 23 | Mr MacSharry added : ‘ As far as I am concerned an agreement could be signed in five minutes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I am concerned an agreement could be signed in five minutes , ’ said Mr MacSharry , Ireland 's EC agriculture commissioner who bowed out as a GATT negotiator yesterday . |
| 25 | It is in fact a purely physical problem associated with excessive amounts of gas ( usually atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen ) dissolved in the water in which the fish finds itself , be that an aquarium , pond or indeed lake . |
| 26 | The length of lessons will vary from teacher to teacher , but the shortest will be half an hour and the longest will be an hour . |
| 27 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 28 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 29 | Always used to be half term , but Milvia it can only be half an hour ! |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , and I 'm such an ogre ! |