Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is our SW regional buyer and is a school teacher . |
| 2 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |
| 3 | They form the backbone of his historical research and are a joy in themselves . |
| 4 | For the record , the darkened piece of centuries-old wood that is a link with a 1,400-year-old cult is now kept in a safe . |
| 5 | But this conclusion would be quite misleading , since the pattern described is typical of all British sites and is a reflection of the coins circulating in Britain throughout its occupation by the Romans ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 6 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 7 | A register is a statutory designated body that is a basis for designating liability , and a list is a source of administrative efficiency for the use of the local authority . |
| 8 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 9 | I think I would some of the time , but I would n't mind another job because being a journalist is very hectic . |
| 10 | Erm and some place that 's a skiing resort in the winter |
| 11 | Now that relations have improved , some have tried to explain away this usage as being a play on the French ‘ angle ’ , which supposedly sounds like ‘ anglais ’ . |
| 12 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 13 | THE UNITED STATES has shelved plans to cut a military road through a pristine Honduran rain-forest that is a staging post for guerilla raids on Nicaragua . |
| 14 | The section enables a licensing board to suspend a licence on the ground that the licence-holder is no longer a fit and proper person , or that the premises cause undue public nuisance or are a threat to public order or safety ( subs . |
| 15 | Born deaf , and now aged 30 , Shaw holds diplomas in chemical and electronic engineering and is a person with many hobbies including computer programming , car maintenance , photography squash , travel and reading . |
| 16 | In some ways that is a statement of astonishing banality , for who supposes otherwise ? |
| 17 | He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade . |
| 18 | Which say have er retire in dignity and comfort , that 's the difference between being an old man and being a gentleman . |
| 19 | The lecturer 's task is not to act in the medieval sense and be a reader of scarce books , but to explain the difficult parts of an abstruse subject . |
| 20 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 21 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 22 | In addition , Peter Wood , who founded Direct Line and is a director of Royal Bank , is believed to be keen to see the company floated on the stock market . |
| 23 | Another thing that was a disappointment for me was missing the traditional breaking through the ropes and the spectators at the end ; getting the police escort through to the last . |
| 24 | For indeed I can not think my fault so great in this matter that was a point of conscience with me as to stand in need of your forgiveness . |
| 25 | He decided that for him to sit back and imagine , to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas , was an actual temptation . |
| 26 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 27 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose you know gypsy women do vulgar dancing that 's a disgrace ? |
| 29 | I have been extremely interested in the youth of Shropshire for many years and I try to express this by such activities as being a confirmation catechist , working with young adults with physical and mental disabilities and also attending a week 's work experience at Dehon House . |
| 30 | The exponent n is the Avrami exponent and is an integer which can provide information on the geometric form of the growth . |