Example sentences of "be a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're a good side , though on our day I believe we 're a better one . |
| 2 | Yes , I have to tell you , you 're a temporary one . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a strange one , ’ he said softly , moving outside the dream a moment . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a strange one , Shallot , ’ he murmured . |
| 5 | How to live till you 're a hundred you know , live a good life . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a quiet 'un . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're a fine one to enquire ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're a fine one to talk ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a fine one to talk . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a fine one to talk . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a fine one to talk , gilgul , ’ I jeer , from behind the barrier of blue-striped no-iron 60–40 cotton-polyester . |
| 12 | ‘ And , anyway , you 're a fine one to talk ! ’ she added defiantly , while backing nervously away from his advancing figure . |
| 13 | You 're a fine one to talk ! |
| 14 | You 're a fine one to talk ! |
| 15 | ‘ Talk aboot Cary Grant … my , you 're a fast one ! |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , hen , you 're a messy one , ’ she 'd say with her laugh . |
| 17 | Let's imagine that you 're an effective one . |
| 18 | ‘ Little shepherd , you 're an easy one to fool . ’ |
| 19 | And God , it had been a long one : Simon Franks , Maggie Parkin , Jane Pargeter , David Parkin . |
| 20 | Even in peacetime the London-Scotland journey had been a long one , but in wartime it was dreadful . |
| 21 | The notion of self-discipline or autonomy has been a central one in recent work on professionalisation . |
| 22 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have been a greater one to have visited you in person . |
| 24 | But my mother 's never been a great one for housework and I think my standards are probably like hers … as long as things do n't get filthy , I 'm happy , but a lot of people would n't be satisfied with that . |
| 25 | The decision to split the test may have been a political one . |
| 26 | The relationship has never been a complete one . |
| 27 | I understood , you see , because I had been a provincial myself . |
| 28 | The debate on the rationale of hierarchy has been a heated one . |
| 29 | From the fact that the whaler was lying stopped in the water and that Cousteau , his hand resting idly on the tiller , appeared to be expressing no great degree of interest in anything , it was obvious that his wait had been a vain one , a fact he confirmed on his arrival on the bridge . |
| 30 | The history of religion in England has been a complex one — Monasticism , the Dissolution , the Reformation , Nonconformity , and other events and disciplines have also played their part . |