Example sentences of "[adj] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 2 | Programs such as this are an invaluable source of information and can be used time and time again . |
| 3 | I am undecided as to whether this is because the British are an unadventurous and xenophobic nation , or whether it is because boules is a stupid game . |
| 4 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
| 5 | Each of these is sufficiently significant to repay study in its own right , and some are an essential preliminary to understanding catalogues , indexes and shelf arrangement of stock in libraries . |
| 6 | Some success , some are an absolute waste of . |
| 7 | Pages 1 to 30 are an integral part of the report . |
| 8 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 9 | Could this be an old hippie pratfall ? |
| 10 | Not only would this be an effective riposte — ‘ Touché , ’ he might validly say on his release — but he would be safe in the reassuring knowledge that he need no longer worry about testicular cancer . |
| 11 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 12 | Would this be an opportune time to suggest a move to help reduce the fragmentation of the industry ? |
| 13 | Or take pedestrians : again there 's a minority who step off kerbs without looking , or ‘ jay-walk ’ among the traffic , but would this be an argument against better facilities for pedestrians ? |
| 14 | ‘ Please , ’ she murmured as she climbed the steps to the fifth-floor Brooklyn Heights flat she 'd subleased for the summer , ‘ please , let this be an acceptance ! ’ |
| 15 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 16 | The green eyes were wide and considering , as though this were an aspect of him she had not considered before . |
| 17 | If this were an outline for a novel it would probably be rejected as too far-fetched . |
| 18 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 19 | Laura was only slightly worried by the adverse publicity but she was bitterly hurt , as if this were an attack on her personally . |
| 20 | If record 113 were an addition to the file in fig. 7.15(a) , the new structure would be as in fig. 7.15(b) . |
| 21 | The viable nations of Europe were constituted by a line of cultural or linguistic descent , without this being an overriding principle or implying complete ethnic homogeneity . |
| 22 | The Feathers Hotel is the principal inn , and was used on hiring days , as were most of the other original public houses , this being an agricultural area . |
| 23 | ( Needless to say , this being an English sport , only a minority of England 's counties belong to the championship — and , until very recently , none of the majority could ever hope to force its way in . ) |
| 24 | I think this being an old hag is what is all in the mind ! |
| 25 | The GLC was empowered by the Act to make grants to the LTE for any purpose ( section 3 ) and the GLC intended in this way to reimburse the LTE for the revenue lost by the fares reduction and so enable the LTE to balance its books , this being an obligation placed on the LTE ‘ so far as practicable ’ . |
| 26 | Martell have substantially increased the prize money for the race to give a total prize fund of about £175,000 , this being an increase f three per cent over the previous year . |
| 27 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 28 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 29 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |
| 30 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |