Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the sewers are private an easement will be required from the original developer to effect a connection . |
| 2 | They 'll go to 500 SPECmarks89 and are due a year after EV45 and into 1995 . |
| 3 | Performance will go to 500 SPECmarks89 and are due a year after EV45 and into 1995 . |
| 4 | There is good news from the tax man our deregistration on subscriptions has been accepted and we are due a refund . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked you here because you are due a bonus . ’ |
| 6 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 7 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 8 | A word group is all the most usual forms of a word ; so table / tables , look / looks / looking / looked , go / goes / going / gone / went are each a word group . |
| 9 | Otherwise they are half a mile away and it is ridiculous . |
| 10 | As the crow flies , they are half a mile away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We are half an hour from Cardiff and two and a half hours from London along the M4 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 15 | Where they are contradictory a decision of some sort must be made , or further evidence found to determine the issue . |
| 16 | The fact that rivers are such a symbol of endurance and of changeless change is what makes their management a touchstone for the whole issue of our relationship with the natural world . |
| 17 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 19 | Also there is a dovecote which houses the white doves that are such a feature of Fiveways Cottage . |
| 20 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
| 21 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 22 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 23 | These week-end visits are such a success that Howard and Felicity begin to expand them into full-scale house parties — the Chases , the Waylands , and Luci Hayter , all at once ; the Bernsteins , the Goodys , the Chyldes , and Charles Aught ; the Kessels , the Keats , the Schaffers , the Chases , and Francis Fairlie . |
| 24 | Some of the information in other chapters on nutrition , health , financial problems , and coping with stress may be useful for the daughter at home , but if you are such a daughter there is something else you need too — a healthy determination to protect your own right to a reasonable way of life , while striving to improve that of your parent . |
| 25 | It is fortunate that bearer shares are such a rarity for if they became common it would play havoc with many provisions of the Act . |
| 26 | They are such a branch , but they also offer a means for non-scientists to acquire an understanding of the importance of science in shaping the modern world , and therefore a better appreciation of science itself . |
| 27 | LLNL is working with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to try out the process on polychlorinated biphenyls , which are such a problem for conventional incineration . |
| 28 | Although fixed gill-nets may drown more tucuxi , they generally avoid shallow inshore areas , and are therefore rarely caught in the beach seines which are such a hazard for the boto . |
| 29 | These are such a delight in spring , and they too can be included as handsome and outstanding examples of dual-role perennials . |
| 30 | The Tans were international traders , in partnership with family members based in Dobu in the Aru Islands , of mother-of-pearl shell and " tripang " — the highly priced sea-slugs which are such a delicacy for the Chinese . |