Example sentences of "to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion is not supposed to be a bland endorsement of the essay title or a simple restatement of what has gone before . |
| 2 | ‘ Now we 're saying that there has to be a complete ban on overtime and that they should resist moral blackmail . ’ |
| 3 | But he said there would have to be a complete overhaul of the electoral system first . |
| 4 | Psychologist Mary Russell never even thought about reincarnation until she was in her late 30s , when her life seemed to be a complete mess . |
| 5 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 6 | Even as a poisoner , not , you would have thought , the most demanding of professions , he seemed to be a complete failure . |
| 7 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 8 | For the first time Aranyos seemed uncertain how to proceed , sucking his lip thoughtfully for several seconds before continuing , ‘ It involves looking into a curious business which could prove to be a complete dead end , namely an attack on a girl in the Bauernmarkt last Saturday evening . |
| 9 | It comes from an American baseball player named Thompson , purchased at colossal expense by a Japanese team , who , when he arrived , turned out to be a complete dud , incapable even of hitting the ball . |
| 10 | You 'd have to be a complete and utter grimboid to miss it … |
| 11 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 12 | Designed to be a complete teaching package , Fanfare does not need to be supplemented by any additional material . |
| 13 | It was to be a complete history of the London Underground . |
| 14 | This short section does not purport to be a complete statement of the legal position regarding vertical activity . |
| 15 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 16 | In what was claimed to be a complete coincidence , Israel launched Ofek 2 , its second space satellite , on April 3 [ for launch of Ofek 1 in September 1988 see p. 36637 ] . |
| 17 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |
| 18 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 19 | This Melanie of his had to be a complete idiot to prefer someone else . |
| 20 | Coal flecked bacon and sausage will be a sharp reminder of reality in what 's meant to be a complete surrender to fantasy . |
| 21 | ‘ This is turning out to be a complete disaster for Darlington . |
| 22 | It 's got to be a complete day . ’ |
| 23 | Let us pay Lord Taylor the courtesy of assuming that he does not believe the social circle of the average judge to be a complete guide to right thinking . |
| 24 | This is not one of the chronicler 's purple passages , but seems to be a sober report of the negotiations , and it matters a great deal . |
| 25 | On a piece of rocky coastline and out of what used to be a quaint old fishing village , has sprung one of the liveliest resorts in Corfu . |
| 26 | Distributed at present in Kenya , Uganda and Zimbabwe , it aims to be a pan-African magazine , appealing to a general readership . |
| 27 | Many more Israelis ( most of whom , after all , describe themselves as religious and traditional , rather than secular ) consider Shulamit Aloni , the minister of education , to be a vile enemy with a passionate hatred of the Jewish faith and faithful . |
| 28 | ‘ For the resurrection of what appeared to be a dying company with the introduction of exciting new cars , such as the Viper and the LH range , and the complete restructuring of is manufacturing and financial base ’ |
| 29 | Considered in the mid 1970s to be a dying village , with its school in danger of closing , Langtoft 's population is now on the increase as property development flourishes . |
| 30 | Young Charles Frederick , photographed while still in his teens , seems generally ill-at-ease as he poses in what appears to be a borrowed long coat . |