Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of controversy about the institution of monarchy , one might expect that the consensual British attitude would be one of unthinking acceptance . |
| 2 | The first day of the offensive broke with cynical summer loveliness on a scene shortly to be one of unmitigated horror . |
| 3 | The charge nowadays would be one of attempted theft where the accused intended to steal anything of value or anything in a container such as a pocket , holdall or room . |
| 4 | Her history is still perceived to be one of religious mystification and ritualised domestic violence . |
| 5 | If we take the two words ‘ my turn ’ , the relationship between and , between and and between and is said to be one of close juncture . |
| 6 | This model would obviously allow for contradiction and divergence but would be one of mobile equilibrium with positive indications . |
| 7 | However , save for that brief and embarrassing episode , the day had continued to be one of great enjoyment . |
| 8 | The post would be one of real partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 9 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 10 | The note must be one of unfinished business . |
| 11 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 12 | Dark but lustrously rich in vocal and tonal colour , the predominant mood — if it 's permissible to speak of such a thing in relation to a Mass setting — seems to be one of elegiac lyricism . |
| 13 | Mental imbalance should also be excluded , since that seems inconsistent with the idea of an ‘ ordinary person ’ , and the defence should be one of diminished responsibility . |
| 14 | If you are thinking of feeding a composite source into the monitor , from a video recorder say , then the problem would be one of matching scan rates as well and this does get complicated . |
| 15 | That picture should be one of shared progress , shared failing , of fitness of match or lack of match between policies and funding . |
| 16 | In the longer term , however , especially with the accumulation of thermo-nuclear weapons by both superpowers , the problem was likely to be one of nuclear stalemate . |
| 17 | There is truth in this but it is also likely that , in a period which Eliot considered to be one of cultural decay before the onset of " barbarism " , he was genuinely sceptical about the importance or permanence of his work . |
| 18 | The Cobol approach to object-oriented programming will mainly be one of incremental re-engineering of venerable applications rather than a rush to write new programs , hence the need to retrofit new Cobol into old code . |
| 19 | The ANC had called for the day to be one of national mourning and services and vigils were held throughout the country . |
| 20 | Though his mood at this stage , I admit , seemed , if anything , to be one of exhaustive disenchantment . |
| 21 | In both , the identification with music that attempts to express any part of this vast area tends to be one of self-deceiving empathy . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH prison officers , highlighting a ‘ serious decline ’ in industrial relations , are warning that the coming year may be one of open confrontation with prison service management . |
| 23 | Quite clearly , such tactics can not be tolerated by the association and unless things improve , the coming year may well be one of open confrontation . ’ |
| 24 | The Registrar of Civil Appeals appreciated that the issue could be one of extreme urgency , but was assured that it was not . |