Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | will er the the younger people will be encouraged to start to accept this and it is a change in our thinking , that it , I find it difficult as well . |
| 2 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 3 | By snubbing Napoleon III , Bismarck made the provocative nature of his policy quite clear and it is a measure of how confident he felt that he scarcely bothered to conceal it . |
| 4 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 5 | But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in . |
| 6 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 7 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 8 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 9 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 10 | They started pecking one another and it was a job to get them stopped . |
| 11 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 12 | ‘ We are happy to do this but it is a struggle to meet our debt . |
| 13 | Agnew and Hill combining to get is clear but it 's a corner and that cross caused real problems to Leicester . |
| 14 | It is clear that a gift can amount to a potentially exempt transfer if it is an outright gift to an individual or it is a gift to an accumulation and maintenance trust or indeed it is a gift to a trust under which the beneficiary has an interest in possession . |
| 15 | The tone of these programmes tends to be relentlessly promotional , but the occasional clip might be useable and it 's a source worth investigating if you are short of materials . |
| 16 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 17 | Love of family , of children , of life itself ; love of God , though she is a devout Muslim and I am a Christian ; shared curiosity , and genuine pleasure in each other 's company . |
| 18 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 19 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 20 | ‘ My older son would like to make friends , too — he gets so bored and he is a bit jealous of the baby . |
| 21 | ( No such lists can hope to be comprehensive but it is a pity that no reference is made to Geoffrey Beard 's indispensable and pioneering studies on decorative plasterwork in the Adam period . ) |
| 22 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 23 | But they 're they 're very disadvantaged and they 're a bit of an eyesore . |
| 24 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 25 | Their activities are perfectly normal and it is a pity that adults are sometimes over-ready to become uptight about it . |
| 26 | I settle to a large Lagavulin in relief , and watch Martin Stephenson illustrate just why he is a full-time professional and I am a dilettante moonlighting journalist with the eternal excuse that there might be a column in it . |
| 27 | ‘ There are days like that and it is a matter of making sure you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 28 | But there is a cost of that and it 's a cost that people will recognise . |
| 29 | It 's as stark as that and it 's a nonsense . |
| 30 | Souness said : ‘ Paul 's strong and he 's a competitor . |