Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [noun] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National made between 3,000 and 5,000 Tri-Plate instruments , and out of all those , less than 600 or 700 were round-neck Tri-Plate guitars , since square-necks were standard and round-necks were a custom order . |
| 2 | There often comes a point in the growth of an enterprise when it is clear that some of the activities are profitable and others are a burden . |
| 3 | Neither Persinger nor Brady is a ufologist , but certain UFO researchers have come to recognise the importance of their work and set about verifying it . |
| 4 | ‘ Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 6 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 7 | The other predicates which we use to describe the game are empty(x) which signifies that the square x is empty ; filled ( x , C ) where x is a square and C is a player ; to-move(C) which is true if it is C's turn to play ; win(C) which is short for the formula |
| 8 | And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous . |
| 9 | Legal & General is a founder member of the Insurance Ombudsman scheme and agrees — whatever the circumstances — to accept the Ombudsman 's decision as binding . |
| 10 | Legal & General is a member of the Association of British Insurers . |
| 11 | I wish you well with your writing , remember talent is very useful and perseverance is a necessity . |
| 12 | The exact relationship between glagolitic and Cyrillic is a matter of dispute amongst scholars . |
| 13 | According to him , the Black and Tans were a terror force , hastily recruited from ex-soldiers to carry out a policy of naked and bloody reprisals against the IRA . |
| 14 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 15 | What lay behind the beliefs of the Great and Good was a sense of custodianship . |
| 16 | I was not particularly thirsty but mine was a minority view , apparently . |
| 17 | To make the numbers simple , suppose that C = 8 and K is a quarter . |
| 18 | Well Melissa 's cool and Crystal 's a bit crap and Catherine 's all right . |
| 19 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 20 | The same weekend in 1990 was identical and sketching was a tedium of narrowed eyes against the glare . |
| 21 | Ormsby from the Weld stable is joint top weight with Salmon Eile but 10st is a lot of poundage to carry and it may be best to rely on Loki who rather disappointed at the Curragh last Saturday but who should be given another chance if going to the post . |
| 22 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 23 | Women will continue to choose men — or men women ; each sex always believes it is the other which does the choosing — the man being a little older , a little richer , a little more decisive than the woman , for this is how the majority of the human race pairs itself off , and why the myth of female inferiority is so prevalent throughout the world — it being the direct experience of so many children in so many households that Daddy knows best and Mummy 's a fool . |
| 24 | People in the secret services wanted Graham Mills dead and Marek was a tool that came conveniently to hand . |