Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 the one 's that have got ta I said and as soon as you ai n't got no overtime ooh we are n't allowed a lot this week , we 're a bloody flat week da and a I said I do n't know what to do to keep you happy !
2 It had been a grand few minutes ' work .
3 There does n't seem to be a consistent upward pattern er traffic that comes into a dealers showrooms to buy cars can be up one week , it can be down the next .
4 There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time .
5 Indeed , it would have had to have begun much earlier , her grandchildren 's school being a good fifteen minutes ' walk away , on the other side of West End Lane .
6 It 's a real young man 's mountain , of course .
7 Yeah cos he 's a nice little man ai n't he ?
8 Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of
9 Our house building ought to develop naturally … a natural architecture is a rational healthy builder 's art expressing itself soberly through the medium of masonry and carpentry . ’
10 One hundred and seven is a sixty five note er Pianola twenty for this one , twenty pounds anywhere ?
11 Yelverton is a long lost lepers ' bell , a simple reminder that all is n't well beyond Game Boy .
12 It is a long hot summer 's day .
13 But if it is doubly degenerate , there is a reduced characteristic equation unc being one degree lower than
14 It 's an all British car erm except for the Japanese tape deck , and the makers believe there are enough people around who still want to drive with the top down and the wind in their hair , people who are prepared to risk the weather , as well as an overdraft , to get behind the wheel of a Healey again .
15 th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly .
16 For every two adults booking a Mediterranean holiday , there is an automatic free child 's place on offer .
17 Here , they can combine a professional career with the joys of rural living : Richard 's practice as a chartered surveyor is an easy eight minutes ' drive away , just long enough to ‘ listen to the traffic reports and think of all those people on the M25 ! ’
18 The wine , which arrived in a carafe , was a strong excellent vin ordinaire .
19 It was a typical English gentlewoman 's bedroom , Penelope thought , in boringly good taste .
20 The salary of the post to which the unlucky Mr Achterlonie aspired was a mere twenty pounds per annum , but Montrose did not disdain it , conscious that ‘ triffling as such a post is it may effectuallie oblidge some body who may be reddie to repay such a favor upon ane other occasion ’ .
21 The child ‘ star ’ was a six-year old Down 's girl called Nina .
22 There was a six million pound erm , er difference on the S A assumption .
23 In February 1974 , there was a second national miners ' strike .
24 Erm , immediately as we went in it was er a very poorly furnished room erm I 'm going in there 's a window on the far side and there was a small single bed erm which to all intents and purposes appeared un-made at the time and there was a duvet covering it
25 They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire .
26 He realised that in the centre of the soft fake torso was a hard real butcher 's hook .
27 We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages .
28 You know there was an old legal story er saying rather er that er in the first five years that a a j a man is appointed a judge he does n't know the job .
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