Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Messiah of Aaron , descended from Israel 's first high priest in the Old Testament , would be a priestly figure , an ‘ Interpreter of the Law ’ who would preside over the people 's spiritual life . |
| 2 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 3 | That given time , they would be a self-supporting but those of us , there was Axminster , there was Exeter , there was Exmouth er , they 've all got them |
| 4 | To be a woman was to be a shell-less creature , bereft and vulnerable . |
| 5 | Did n't you ever think it might be a shabby move lifting it off the album — a lot of people have mentioned this to me . |
| 6 | He can be a deadly enemy ; keep him there in imagination . |
| 7 | It 's supposed to be a deadly secret . ’ |
| 8 | Financial pressure plus isolation can be a deadly cocktail for a sector of society which has by the nature of its calling ready access to the means of self-destruction . |
| 9 | Financial pressure plus isolation can be a deadly cocktail for a sector of society which has by the nature of its calling ready access to the means of self-destruction . |
| 10 | This was going to be a sore one , she reflected . |
| 11 | It was getting to be a sore point . |
| 12 | Ecclesiastical wealth could be a sore temptation , and in his youth Æthelred misappropriated ( in their view ) the lands of several churches . |
| 13 | 4 There is to be a twenty-year ban on novels set in Oxford or Cambridge , and a ten-year ban on other university fiction . |
| 14 | 10 There shall be a twenty-year ban on God ; or rather , on the allegorical , metaphorical , allusive , offstage , imprecise and ambiguous uses of God . |
| 15 | There will be other readers who may look wistfully at the attractions of religious faith but are restrained by the folklore and fashions of what they suppose to be a current scientific philosophy . |
| 16 | He can simply state in evidence that he examined the licence and found it to be a current provisional . |
| 17 | There will be a current produced by the electric field as before ; the new feature is the appearance of a qv X B force on each charge element . |
| 18 | In response to the applied voltage there will be a current producing a flux that will induce voltages both in coils 1 and 2 . |
| 19 | This need not be a current date and therefore future changes can be made in advance . |
| 20 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 21 | Distributed at present in Kenya , Uganda and Zimbabwe , it aims to be a pan-African magazine , appealing to a general readership . |
| 22 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 23 | I do n't know , he can be a ignorant |
| 24 | But then this feels as if it may be a transitional volume , presaging the larger-scale fiction in which Tolstaya should surely be spreading her brilliant wings . |
| 25 | There will be a transitional period , details of which have yet to be released , during which the amount of the repayment within an accounting period will be reduced . |
| 26 | The guidelines took effect on 1 August , but there will be a transitional period for the sake of students and members who began their pre- or post-qualification training before that date . |
| 27 | Their enthusiasm for the gangster film was in part a hope that it would be a transitional form and not an atrophied and unchanging product . |
| 28 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 29 | He said that the Scottish transport scheme should be wound up and that there should be a transitional period to ensure continuity of pension provision and that employees are to be allowed to remain in TOPS for a limited period . |
| 30 | Under the Aug. 3 agreement , there would be a transitional period extending to 1995 , during which the Black Sea Fleet would be removed from Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) joint armed forces and " placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and of Ukraine " . |