Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date .
2 Hill only half clear and that 's a goal kick .
3 Everyone 's house , and that 's another thing , if you wanted to paint as your house inside , the cupboards and the doors , they were painted brown and that was a lifetime 's job , they were never done again , not like you do now with this freshening up of paint every so often .
4 WET AND WINDY is a night of progs about how interesting the weather is and encompasses Paul Gambaccini , Peter Greenaway 's ACT OF GOD and the original THE THING .
5 I was German and that 's a crime , and to be Jewish is a terrible thing .
6 Of forty-two sub-seneschals appointed between 1254 and 1317 ( of Agenais , Bigorre , Landes , Périgord , Quercy , Limousin and Saintonge ) no less than thirty-nine were Gascon nobles , two were English and one was a Savoyard .
7 The first group continue to contribute to the health care of the nation but the second and third are a target for re-employment at some time .
8 The early and mid-seventies were a time of ‘ no warning ’ bombs and sectarian killings were escalating .
9 What you see is what you get at Caister : there are few blind shots unless you wander , but keeping on the straight and narrow is a challenge in the constant breeze .
10 How they emerge or whether they will always be visible and measurable is a matter of doubt .
11 That 's right and that 's a credit to the education system of Leicestershire .
12 The widening gap between rich and poor was a stain on our civilization .
13 That is the reality of what er Mike said and I 'm sorry he pinched my line politics is the art of the possible and that is a message I 'm afraid that the Conservatives on this council have never adopted .
14 Other documentation you receive and certainly is this one and you ca n't do your job without that and that 's a blank of of the layout .
15 Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day .
16 Now a Z score is a convenient way of encapsulating that and this is a way that we 're gon na g work out the correlation coefficient okay ?
17 Thus it was submitted that the question whether the death was in this case natural or unnatural was a matter exclusively for the coroner whose decision can be reviewed only on the basis that no coroner could reasonably have reached the conclusion arrived at here .
18 Also , we have something that is very unique and that is a design group that provides a design service at arm 's length to each of the operating companies .
19 Thought he placed his hand on the ball anyway he 's got away with it and Phillips at the other end is under pressure from Speedy and that 's a corner off Chettle .
20 No , we sold off thirty acres to a developer in nineteen seventy-three and that was a lot easier than-working .
21 I laughed — you know , the pole was a broom handle , and the noble folds of red , white and blue were a dishcloth .
22 I know it 's right but that 's a laugh I think .
23 I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go .
24 At this season by far the largest numbers are found in Chichester and Pagham Harbours , in both of which flocks of 100 or more are of regular occurrence in July and August ; the highest count recorded between 1964 and 1976 was a total of 295 on 20 August 1967 .
25 Erm of course two thousand and six is a consideration that we ought to look at once a new settlement location 's identified .
26 The experience of reforms and re-organisations in the 1970s and 1980s is a reminder that implementation of change is problematical .
27 the change in manufacturing employment during the 1970s and 1980s is a move from Frostbelt to Sunbelt so long as ‘ frost ’ and ‘ sun ’ refer to the social conditions for profit making … .
28 Angels and Amazons at York Arts Centre on June 17 and 18 is a celebration of eccentric women throughout the ages .
29 I am not denying the truth of this feeling : to feel cold is to feel unprotected and each is a metaphor for the other state .
30 Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl .
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