Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Other forms of communication may well be appropriate after an initial meeting . |
| 32 | Some treated sewage effluents , for example , are cleaner than some rivers , while a ‘ bad ’ pollution on a potable supply river may not even be noticeable in an urban watercourse . |
| 33 | This use involves then a shift in the way knowing is conceived , from the static , resultative sort of knowledge evoked by I knew it to be untrue to an operative view of knowing as " directly experiencing " something . |
| 34 | Does it have wheels or castors on all four legs ( which could be dangerous with an active toddler ) ? |
| 35 | ‘ The prince has expressed the wish that his wife should not be bored by an over-long show , ’ Kensington Palace told the BBC . |
| 36 | Generosity , affability and an overwhelming fondness for the sound of his own voice : these characteristics , founded on a ready wit and a gargantuan appetite , created a superficial impression of warmth and worldliness which Harry took to be typical of an upper crust Home Counties hotelier . |
| 37 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 38 | For example , if an Insured left an item such as an expensive camera on view in his car without giving any thought to its safety or concealment perhaps on the basis that it was insured anyway that would be indicative of an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken . |
| 39 | Markstones buried in a hedge bottom or by the side of the road , tree clumps on prominent sites that can be seen from a distance , earthworks that might be indicative of an old sunken way , or indeed anything unusual on the line . |
| 40 | Mother did n't , could n't , will never understand why a sport should take precedence over sensible activities like , say , a nice coffee morning , or an afternoon in the House of Fraser or a kaluki evening ( that 's a nice card game , not to be confused with an unendurable evening of Japanese theatricals ) . |
| 41 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 42 | I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius . |
| 43 | The division of Glamorgan allowed each of the former county boroughs to be placed in a separate county though in terms of total area or population a unified Glamorgan would not be unusual in an English context . |
| 44 | Kitchen curtains which need to be washed fairly frequently can often be hard for an elderly person to reach to take down and to re-hang ; so one of the easily wiped vinyl-coated roller blinds is an excellent idea . |
| 45 | that can be hard in an isolated situation when those are the only views you hear . ’ |
| 46 | Candidates have the right to complain if they believe a governing body 's decision or procedures have been discriminatory and the latter will be answerable before an industrial tribunal . |
| 47 | The match will be all-ticket with an anticipated 25,000 capacity crowd and distribution arrangements will be announced shortly . |
| 48 | Now it will be obvious to an incisive mind like yours that the existence of the Counterweight Continent poses a deadly threat to our people here — ’ he paused , looking at Rincewind 's open mouth . |
| 49 | However , such x i j could be basic in an initial BFS and , although they will eventually leave the basis , it is usually computationally advantageous to start with a BFS in which no basic variable x i j has = K . |
| 50 | With American acquiescence , the UN has recently endorsed the principle that an international peace conference on Palestine might be useful at an appropriate time . |
| 51 | David Hunt , the Minister for Local Government , will be vulnerable to an angry reaction when he tries to answer the expected protest from the Tory grass-roots — and Tory councillors in particular . |
| 52 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 53 | In relation to white British culture in particular , various factors combine to create a sense of unreliability in in-law support : the ambiguity about whether the in-laws are ‘ really ’ part of your kin group ; the possibility that the linking third party will be removed at some stage ; the expectation that in-law relationships are likely to be tricky at an interpersonal level . |
| 54 | Creativity can be seen to be complementary , rather than opposed , to conventional engineering , which must be present at an adequate level to permit a high quality solution . |
| 55 | It may be applicable to an individual firm , but not to the economy as a whole — if real wages were reduced throughout the economy , this would reduce aggregate demand and so may increase rather than reduce the actual level of unemployment . |
| 56 | ‘ We 'll both be better for an early night . |
| 57 | It would probably still be better for an asthmatic than other , fully-furred breeds , but there is little point in taking a risk with it when there is the more suitable Cornish Rex available . |
| 58 | In the situations below the charge will be 0 for an unlimited time : |
| 59 | The observation that His197 can be perfectly substituted by glutamine suggests that the imidazole of His197 may be involved in an amino-aromatic interaction with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 ( Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 60 | I never thought I would be involved in an adulterous affair . |