Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be subjective about an objective situation . |
| 2 | Indeed , the huge TV screen set up for the occasion is now predicting that the Tories will be shy of an overall majority by a mere eight seats : John Major will surely be back at Number 10 . |
| 3 | In this case , the new name must be that of an existing user , and the new module owner must be related to you ( as the module manager ) . |
| 4 | In this case , the new name must be that of an existing user , and the new module owner must be related to you ( as the module manager ) . |
| 5 | If the module owner is changed , the new name must be that of an existing user , and the new module owner must be related to you ( as the module manager ) . |
| 6 | If the module manager is changed , the new name must be that of an existing user , and the new manager must be your ascendant or descendant . |
| 7 | I am sure it must be possible for an adolescent girl to reconcile the male and the female sets of anxieties . |
| 8 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 9 | It was not enough for voters to be dissatisfied with an incumbent Tory government . |
| 10 | Conversely , a negative provocation test suggests that the patient 's pain is not due to the presence of irritant duodenal juice in the stomach , but could be associated with abnormal motility associated with DGR , or might be due to an unrelated cause . |
| 11 | On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill . |
| 12 | The more moderate FRY opinion appeared to be prevailing in an internal political power struggle in September , as Panic replaced some ministers and defeated a no confidence vote in the Federal Assembly on Sept. 4 by 66 votes to 30 with seven abstentions . |
| 13 | There has been much debate about whether increases in costs can be inflationary without an accompanying increase in the money supply . |
| 14 | If all the Christians in your school started acting like Jesus , then people would n't be dependent upon an occasional Christian assembly to teach them about God . |
| 15 | Aspects of postmodernist tendencies might in some contexts be dependent upon an anti-trade-union posture , such as the contemporary United States ( where unionization of the workforce is now as low as 17 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Dare to be different with an innovative style that will become a contemporary classic |
| 17 | Will a European perspective be interesting to an American audience , and would an American perspective be greatly different to his plan ? |
| 18 | It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring ; Chile did it , Peru hopes to . |
| 19 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 20 | Would members be interested in an organised visit to the Island 's railways in 1993 ? |
| 21 | At any rate , the scope of Dworkin 's rights theory as currently formulated is plainly too narrow to generate the kind of economic rights that might be consistent with an equal right to self-development . |
| 22 | All such plans must be subject to an environmental appraisal and show how local resources will be conserved and sustainably used . |
| 23 | Investment would no longer be subject to an annual ceiling set by the Treasury ( which , for example , is currently stopping BR buying up-to-date Networker trains to help relieve congestion on lines in Kent ) . |
| 24 | Under the proposals , all shipments of waste — including movements within a member state — would be subject to an obligatory notification procedure for all forms of waste except collection of household wastes and some non-contaminated wastes intended for further use , such as bottle banks . |
| 25 | But for such proposed order the appellant would clearly be unable to hand over the documents : he would be subject to an implied undertaking , analogous to that arising on discovery in civil proceedings , not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes for which discovery was given , here the pursuance of the criminal appeal which is now , of course , successfully concluded . |
| 26 | A punch travels faster than a kick and you may be stop-punched by an alert opponent . |
| 27 | For example , we expect the core skills included in all general SVQs to be amenable to an integrative approach . |
| 28 | In the case of the H197F mutant , an edge-to-face aromatic-aromatic interaction between the ( + ) hydrogen of the phenylalanine and the ( - ) - electrons of the benzhydryl group of the antagonist would be similar to an amino-aromatic interaction in its electrostatic origin . |
| 29 | An exclusive licence will be appropriate between an independent software writer and a software publisher who undertakes to market the programs on behalf of the writer ; this type of arrangement and its contractual implications will be examined in Chapter 16 . |
| 30 | Teachers should enquire as to whether a low vision aid would be appropriate for an individual low vision child in their class . |