Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of being overweight and a smoker killed her . |
| 2 | Robert Beale , clerk to the Privy Council , advised councillors and secretaries of state ‘ to avoid opinion of being new-fangled and a bringer-in of new customs ’ . |
| 3 | Well , it is abnormally low body weight for age and height , an intense fear of gaining weight despite being underweight and a misperception of body size and denial of the problem . |
| 4 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 5 | From being surprised that a ball rolls away on a gentle slope , a child will purposely ride his scooter down the same slope for enjoyment , knowing that he then has to push it up again . |
| 6 | All these reforms may be necessary , but alas , so far from being sufficient that a reassessment of future conservation needs to be made . |
| 7 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 8 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 9 | It was not merely the major items of patronage , such as appointment to the Court of Session , which occasioned deathwatch reports to politicians from the jobhunters , for the health of local officers was as much a matter of careful calculation , and the first to apply was the most likely to be successful when a vacancy occurred . |
| 10 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 11 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 12 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |
| 13 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 14 | Flat rate farmers will not be required to keep detailed records , but Customs would expect paperwork to be available if a check of transactions became necessary . |
| 15 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 16 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 17 | There is little difference , for example , between the position of a child trespasser whom the occupier knows to be present and a child visitor . |
| 18 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 19 | Miranda said , ‘ Firstly , I 'd like to be sure that a nursing home is the best place for her , rather than a hospital . |
| 20 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 21 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 22 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 23 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 24 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 25 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 26 | One learned to be circumspect when a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary was around . |
| 27 | In a whole variety of ways , the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal . |
| 28 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 29 | bound to be , bound to be awful when a woman ca n't talk it must be terrible |
| 30 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |