Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 2 | The Posh are making a strong promotion challenge and their experienced , hard-running side knocked Liverpool out of the Rumbelows League Cup and impressed in defeat against Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 4 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 5 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 7 | Some were allowed a relative degree of freedom , but others , like the Dutch East Indies , were kept under direct military rule , largely due to the importance of their natural resources . |
| 8 | Whilst this is expecting a great deal for such groups , a measure of personal ministry to the individual plus group ministry to one another would seem to preserve the right balance . |
| 9 | What you do with this is take a big breath , |
| 10 | This is taking a long time . |
| 11 | This is taking a long time . |
| 12 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |
| 13 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 14 | In the absence of adequate police action , this is producing a growing number of self-defence and monitoring groups among black minorities ( Gordon , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | This is creating a vital staging post between expensive hotels and permanent rehousing for the homeless . |
| 16 | The only solution for this is to use a soldering iron to lengthen them ! |
| 17 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 18 | This is called a labelled graph . |
| 19 | This is called a cloud-point curve . |
| 20 | This is called a Preferred Point Geometry . |
| 21 | My worst dive was when on descending a sudden shock of cold water hit my tooth sending a shock wave up my nerve the nerve ran through a sinus causing extreme pain this is called a dental trauma I had to abandon the dive immediately . |
| 22 | This is called a lateral eruption . |
| 23 | This is called a coronary thrombosis or just ‘ a coronary ’ . |
| 24 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 25 | In some cases the effects of the blockage can be so severe that the heart stops beating altogether and this is called a cardiac arrest . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly this is called a low-angle thrust fault . |
| 27 | Gon na go on now to talk about a severe condition which may start out that with a minor skin rash like this , this is called a petechial skin rash they later progress to rather more generalised rash and in it 's most severe form it 's mucrotic |
| 28 | This is called a data-bank system and a good example is the pupil record system which is kept in a secretary 's office . |
| 29 | This is called a lunar month . |
| 30 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |