Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] be [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If the court comes to the conclusion that there is such an interference , it must then decide whether or not the constable has lawful justification for his conduct , which can be found either in statute or the common law . |
2 | I felt that there was such an understanding of Italian art by the British spanning the last three or four hundred years . |
3 | You know there 's twenty minutes you know and there 's half an hour of of tape when he thought he was taping when it was just running . |
4 | He can sit there until there 's half an hour to go , then we can gamble with the score at 0–0 by sending him on , knowing he 's capable of winning the game for us . |
5 | If there is such an outlet in the neighbourhood , it will be a more satisfactory source than a mail-order nursery , because you can see what you are buying , you can check that it is the plant as named on the label , and you can make sure of getting a strong healthy specimen free from pest or disease . |
6 | If there is such an emergency , why is it that there is no analogous Bill for Scotland ? |
7 | If there is such an emergency , why is there not a similar Bill for Scotland ? |
8 | However , if there is such an overlap , section 236 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 removes design right protection , leaving copyright as providing the only legal remedy against unauthorized copying . |
9 | Second , it must be shown that there was no expression of view made by the person as to what should be done in the event that he became incompetent , or , if there were such an expression of view , that it was made when the patient was already incompetent . |
10 | He looked sort of sternly amused , if there was such an expression , and really rather imposing , and as he continued to regard her she saw there was a glitter in his eyes , which could have been amusement , she supposed , if one were very optimistic . |
11 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
12 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
13 | erm on the problems of getting a job , for instance , erm in Oxford , because there is such an inequality between the erm rents that landlords will charge people on benefit and the rents which anybody on a low paid job could actually afford to pay . |
14 | In this case it was held that payments from an overseas discretionary trust came within Case V of Schedule D. Lord Wrenbury at p541 stated : The test … is … whether there is such an interest in a foreign possession that the party assessed derives income from it . |
15 | LIKE your correspondent I think the RSPCA makes it too hard for people to adopt pets — it refused to consider us because our garden was not fully fenced , even though there 's half an acre of it well away from a main road . |