Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad 's as brave as a dad can be , |
| 2 | My dad 's as brave as a dad can be , |
| 3 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 4 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 5 | This was Cultra , where an introduction was de rigueur before so much as a cocktail could be taken . |
| 6 | It would be great if a match could be found . |
| 7 | The division is not watertight since a project may be relevant to more than one area of research and , indeed there are overlapping themes and issues between many of the individual projects . |
| 8 | He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright . |
| 9 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 10 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |
| 11 | Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way , any more than a command can be . |
| 12 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 13 | Characteristics may be refined by breeding to some relatively small degree , but such behaviour can never be fundamentally altered , any more than a dog can be bred into a cat , or a pigeon into a parrot . |
| 14 | Temporary jobs lasting more than a week can be considered in terms of whether they open or reopen rights to Unemployment Benefit . |
| 15 | Electromagnetic waves with lengths ranging from several kilometres to less than a metre can be picked up by tuning a radio into long or short wavebands . |
| 16 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 17 | During October Year 41 , Sour Ltd was notified that , due to the death of Crowt Ltd 's managing director , who held 30% of the Ordinary Shares , the remaining directors were considering liquidating Crowt Ltd unless a buyer could be found for the shares previously held by the managing director . |
| 18 | Wearing Havvie 's ring , a diamond heirloom given to all Blaine brides , laughing , talking and playing with him as the London season began , Sally-Anne persuaded herself that she was as happy as a girl could be , Terry Rourke 's betrayal wiped out and forgotten . |
| 19 | This should have a h f e of at least 500 , higher if a selection can be made . |
| 20 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 21 | The man had white bone things above his eyes and under the mouth so that his face was longer than a face should be . |
| 22 | 9 Although a group may be active and especially influential within a limited range of issues that are of pressing concern to it , such a group will take no part in a whole host of other issues where different groups will be active and influential . |
| 23 | This committee , like the CNAA , gives the approval necessary before a course can be funded ( and thereby receive students ) . |
| 24 | Centuries of Western training will be necessary before a Japanese will be able to appreciate the significance of such a phrase as ‘ catching a train by the skin of one 's teeth ! ’ |
| 25 | For his abilities and interests had been felt throughout the land , and had touched Palestine itself ; the day would not be far distant when a woodland would be dedicated to him , the Lyon Cohen Memorial Grove , at Kadesh Naftali , south of Jerusalem . |
| 26 | It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded . |
| 27 | The Patents Act 1977 lays down several requirements which must be satisfied before a patent can be granted and , furthermore , certain things are specifically excluded from patentability . |
| 28 | The man , who had head injuries , was dead before a doctor could be flown to the ship . |
| 29 | Gentle of spirit and as maternal as a dog can be . |