Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make such an abstraction is to remove oneself to so rarefied a plane that the object of one 's interrogation becomes an eternal category and is therefore a pointless exercise . |
| 2 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
| 3 | Malcolm became only the third Brit to gain any World Cup points this year and is definitely a name to watch for the future . |
| 4 | ‘ It is an eight-page booklet and is basically a plan to improve the canal and river corridors . ’ |
| 5 | There is good evidence from the old literature and more recent studies to show that single dose treatment is highly effective in this context and is also a useful guide as to how to manage the woman for the remainder of the pregnancy . |
| 6 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 7 | The rate seems to have been about half that of an ordinary return and was perhaps a day ticket , although no mention of that condition is made . |
| 8 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 9 | The school is situated in the Garden District of Santa Cruz ( pop 195,000 ) , a city of contrasts which retains much of its colonial charm and is only a short drive away from the nightlife of the resort of Puerto de la Cruz . |
| 10 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 11 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 12 | People who were ‘ chronically sick ’ , on the other hand , were familiar : they had failed to benefit from medical treatment and were therefore a problem , usually best left to themselves or to others to cope with . |
| 13 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 14 | Jill ( see front page ) is Lizzie 's second surviving daughter and is now a little over two years old . |
| 15 | The expression for dva can be written compactly as where is defined by All the vectors v , da , and db appearing in ( 7.2 ) are quite arbitrary ; dv is the difference between local vectors at the same place and is also a vector . |
| 16 | In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire . |
| 17 | Malcolm , out to prove that he is not yet a Test has-been , quickly worked up a rare pace and was quite a handful , coming in with the pavilion behind him . |
| 18 | However , it can not be proved or disproved in any final way and is unavoidably a political statement . |
| 19 | The pool area is an ideal spot for soaking up that golden tan and is only a short step to the beach . |
| 20 | Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it . |
| 21 | The historic cost is the result of a past decision and is therefore a sunk cost and irrelevant in decision-making . |
| 22 | The tower itself is a local landmark and was once a ‘ camera obscura ’ . |
| 23 | The United States might have argued that Nicaragua 's concealment of its incapacity constituted fraud and was thus a ground for invalidating its consent . |
| 24 | She was transferred to the department last October by Mr Newing after making her formal complaint and is now a detective . |
| 25 | Oct-11b has diverged at 10 nucleotides in a total of 90 within the POU specific domain compared with the structural gene and is therefore a clearly distinct but related sequence ( Figure 8 ) . |