Example sentences of "be [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 2 | Been dry all day . |
| 3 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 4 | The company is beta testing implementations for the NCR 3000 series , Bull DPX and SCO Unix 5.32 which are due this quarter . |
| 5 | Versions for Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 and IBM Corp AIX are due this year . |
| 6 | Versions for Unix System V.4 and IBM AIX are due this year . |
| 7 | First products are due this year . |
| 8 | Euless , Texas-based Xalt Software Corp 's Xalt Office , the suite of five graphically-based integrated applications including Desk , Diary , Notes , Mail and People Manager , is now immediately available for Sparc machines priced at $200 ; Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp versions are due any day now ; the company has been circulating early development copies since last September , and adding features and functions . |
| 9 | The weather — a few showers are possible this evening and tonight , with some patchy cloud . |
| 10 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 11 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 12 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 13 | The group 's organisers are aghast that South-East Asians have caught the Japanese love of driving and putting . |
| 14 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 15 | I think those are broad enough headings such that |
| 16 | Er I am sorry this Mr means the tone of his |
| 17 | Absolutely cruising when falling two out in last year 's contest , the chestnut has also been below-par this term , but freshened by a three-month break , can arrive fast and late to claim the crown . |
| 18 | The results of this policy are clear each day on Radio and Television : correspondents have more outlets for their wares — we can cover a wider range of stories — and we can spare people to work off rota on stories that will break new fresh ground . |
| 19 | Now if you do recall your first year notes , this is the relationship underlines a cobweb model , right that prices were based on erm or supply decisions were based on prices at planting right and we showed you that cobweb model erm farmers make systematic errors right cos they never appreciate the cycle there is a cycle to prices , right so they 're making systematic errors right cos prices are high this year as a result erm erm of plant a lot so that when the supply comes on the market next year right , prices are very low and you would thought farmers would er , would learn but prices fluctuated right . |
| 20 | Had he been wrong those times ? |
| 21 | He once sang , ‘ I keep getting younger/My life 's been funny that way ’ . |
| 22 | In the settled summer weather , winds are light most mornings , say force 2 , increasing to 3 most afternoons , with occasional failures . |
| 23 | ‘ And if you are afraid this man will know of me , that he may learn you have spent the night with me — ’ |
| 24 | They are popular these days because of the huge range of patterns and designs now available . |
| 25 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 26 | Mr Cook added : ‘ It is not a nice situation to be in but I am afraid these things happen . ’ |
| 27 | People in love are peculiar that way , you know . |
| 28 | Yes , but has been wet all day . |
| 29 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 30 | First , there is no evidence that in states where AFDC payments are generous more children are born outside marriage . |