Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A technique for doing this is to make an amusing remark against yourself . |
| 2 | Option 2 is to obtain an approximate indication of the edges of the rectangular area viewed by the camera . |
| 3 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 4 | This was to become an annual event if not the annual event in the British Skater 's diary . |
| 5 | The twenty nine year old was serving an eight year sentence for burglary at Grendon prison near Aylesbury . |
| 6 | Whilst these are providing an integrated service , some , eg NE Fife concentrate their efforts on dementia suffers , whilst specialist needs suffers , eg the Whitburn/Bathgate scheme which provides overnight care during holidays . |
| 7 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 8 | The problem about Shakespeare for critics of his mind-set is that to take him seriously at all is to accept an alien agenda . |
| 9 | Er , and , and it , one , one of the things which I hope that we can agree upon is that the is , is that one of the things we can do by organising our time better is get an extra sales call in a day . |
| 10 | One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values . |
| 11 | The first is called an Operational Standard and has five requirements : |
| 12 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 13 | Priority number one was to develop an accurate quality control test for consistent and quantifiable measurement of contamination . |
| 14 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 15 | The hardships in the countryside in the 1930s were given an added bitterness by official rhetoric on the virtues of rural life . |
| 16 | At one end of the Square , presided over by the statue of Beethoven , a group of Vietnamese were staging an anti-communist demonstration complete with public address system . |
| 17 | A good way to get the very best out of your stay in the Seychelles and appreciate the wide variety of wildlife and rate species of birds in particular is to take an island-hopping holiday . |
| 18 | But what is more difficult is to have an agreed view on how many people will die and at what rate , in the year two thousand and one and beyond . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
| 20 | Well from when you first had the operation and you was frightened keep bumping into you , and it 's , I mean that 's taken an awful lot of confidence away and you still got |
| 21 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
| 22 | He received his knighthood in the 1979 Birthday Honours List and in 1980 was elected an Elder Brother and a Member of the Court of Trinity House . |
| 23 | Each was taking an unnatural interest in a view beyond his companion 's shoulder . |
| 24 | Both were to create an unprecedented level of faction fighting at home , and an equally unprecedented degree of intervention from England and France . |
| 25 | They seldom leave their home state of California : it just so happened that both were attending an international conference in Rome . |
| 26 | Retix Inc is hosting an OSI Forum in conjunction with the CCTA at The Royal Aeronautical Society , London on July 8th : the agenda includes messaging , GOSIP guidelines , transaction processing , migration strategies and OSI installation . |