Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] be [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ( Thus where talents are concerned a determinist story can be told . ) |
2 | Where witnesses are unavailable an admission to being involved is helpful . |
3 | Had a bit of difficulty in finding my feet , sexually , as it were , in that although prostitutes were twenty a penny , the kind of up-market lovelies that I favoured were harder to locate . |
4 | The fact that rivers are such a symbol of endurance and of changeless change is what makes their management a touchstone for the whole issue of our relationship with the natural world . |
5 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
6 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |
7 | This whole picturesque area has been designated a nature reserve and if you enjoy long walks then you 're in for a treat — gorges , torrents , dense forests and vineyards are two a pfennig ! |
8 | When times are hard a grizzly may take a mountain goat . |