Example sentences of "be an [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 2 | The first response of any seller in a strong position is bound to be an impossible one , and so this is . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 4 | The refusal must , however , be unconditional or , if it is conditional , the condition must be an unreasonable one . |
| 5 | This is , really , a cop-out , and can be an expensive one . |
| 6 | ‘ There 'll be an extra one on there tonight , eh ? ’ said Billy . |
| 7 | The cost of the additional piece of road beyond the er the link to the er waste transfer station would be an extra one and a half million . |
| 8 | This practice of marking searches , requisitions , etc , should be an invariable one for three reasons : ( 1 ) it compels you to consider each question and reply before marking it ; ( 2 ) it will save your time in selecting answers that require further action , and will avoid your reading through the enquiries again later on to make sure that the replies to them are in order ; and ( 3 ) it is a permanent record that at the time of the transaction you not only made your search , etc , but duly considered and dealt with the replies . |
| 9 | If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's ideally suited to the long-ball game — he wins 99 per cent of balls in the air — and while he would n't be a classical player , he would be an effective one , like John Fashanu and Dion Dublin . |
| 11 | So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one . |
| 12 | That must be an expanded one although , although the case would have told you that He seems a pleasant wee fella that . |
| 13 | Instead there comes the realisation , surely necessary all over the world , that every African , whatever else he is , is also a food producer and must learn to be an efficient one . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) The decision about a paper 's suitability for the journal should be an early one , and no revisions should be requested until this decision has been made . |
| 15 | His view that war could be justified by the need to find peace , a view which won support from later philosophers , theologians and lawyers , was to be an influential one . |
| 16 | Subject to these qualifications , the prohibition of pecuniary interest seems to be an absolute one and is not further qualified by any requirement that the interest be substantial . |
| 17 | The restriction in this case would be in law and would be an absolute one . |
| 18 | A stable environment can , unfortunately , be an unhealthy one . |
| 19 | This should be an easy one . |
| 20 | The highly transient nature of the casual labour force in hotels and catering , and the low attachment to work of many casuals — itself often related to the fact that their jobs are very much part-time — mean that the unions ' task will scarcely be an easy one . |
| 21 | The task will not therefore be an easy one , but intellectual honesty will not be served by assuming that there is any easier route . |
| 22 | Volex chairman Bill Goodall said : ‘ The economic environment remains generally unfavourable to manufacturing industries and the year will not be an easy one in which to operate . |
| 23 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 24 | Even if Popper 's claims for ‘ World Three ’ and Olson 's for ‘ autonomous text ’ were valid — and Rommetveit 's work casts further doubt on them the world which they are striving for would be an impoverished one and the ‘ knowledge ’ which could be stored in it would be narrow and limited . |
| 25 | It might be an awkward one . |
| 26 | Yet even in these cases the situation could be an awkward one : senior partners needed both credibility and backing from the head ; they also needed tact and skill in the development enterprise , and such attributes are not an automatic concomitant of experience ; and client teachers needed to be able to accept that their practice needed such attention . |
| 27 | ‘ This is going to be an amazing one ! ’ he yelled . |
| 28 | The threat must be an unlawful one . |
| 29 | For him she was a guilty woman pretending to be an innocent one . |
| 30 | The APB is right to draw attention to this issue , but the strategy of ‘ linkage ’ may be an untenable one . |