Example sentences of "be [det] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact a purely physical problem associated with excessive amounts of gas ( usually atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen ) dissolved in the water in which the fish finds itself , be that an aquarium , pond or indeed lake . |
| 2 | The length of lessons will vary from teacher to teacher , but the shortest will be half an hour and the longest will be an hour . |
| 3 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 4 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 5 | Always used to be half term , but Milvia it can only be half an hour ! |
| 6 | To amount to a waiver it must be such an assent as to show that the seller intends to renounce his rights against the goods . |
| 7 | First , I should very much welcome any extension of Welsh Question Time , because that would be such an advantage to the Government side of the House . |
| 8 | So , I 'm warning you , you come near me and there 'll be such an explosion that you wo n't know where you are . |
| 9 | But the laws of physics are valid only until further notice " , i.e. until instances are found that falsify them , and this conceivably might be such an instance . |
| 10 | Reading his letters about dogs , you incubate a silent fury that any intelligent man could be such an idiot . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you ever forgive me ? ’ he questioned soulfully , and Fabia began to feel a tinge embarrassed , for how , in a public place , could she tell him not to be such an idiot ? |
| 12 | You used to be such an ass about her in the old days . |
| 13 | There may well be such an order in the case of litigants in person . |
| 14 | She could see that he meant it , and knew that there might never again be such an opportunity . |
| 15 | That there must be such an imbalance follows from our consistently maintained position that the rational man can never rise above his spontaneous inclinations , merely learn to choose rationally between them . |
| 16 | Two conditions must be met before there can be such an appeal : |
| 17 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 18 | In dealing with the allegation of infringement of a trade mark , Lord Justice Dillon said that there could only be such an infringement if the words were used by an offender in the trade mark sense . |
| 19 | And for disabled people , too , cooking can be such an effort of organisation , that they are sometimes tempted not to do anything . |
| 20 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 21 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |