Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , reflects Neneh , ‘ Naima and I are really like partners — she trusted me to give her strength and security , and I gained a life in my life — that 's been a complete life-saver a lot of the time . |
| 2 | There had been a severe tremor a couple of years before and repair work was still going on . |
| 3 | If integration at school age and afterwards is to be a real possibility a family with a handicapped child needs to be involved in the community , making friends and developing natural support systems from the beginning . |
| 4 | But , if you use your imagination , it could be a glorious retreat a place to go and hide , a nest for lovebirds , an island of Eden , and on a sunny afternoon , lazing around in your own private kingdom beats life on a busy housing estate . |
| 5 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 6 | Where a farmhouse or other building is regarded as being a private dwellinghouse a bank/organisation will only be required to notify its interest to an insurer where the sum insured exceeds the threshold . |
| 7 | Boswell 's observation that the King should intervene to stop people being forced from the land was augmented by Johnson 's opinion that ‘ were an oppressive chieftain a subject of the French king , he would probably be admonished … ’ |
| 8 | It 's a hundred pound a month in n it ? |
| 9 | What I want to look at now , a new sub-heading , and it 's the relationship , right , between total , average and marginal functions As you may be aware that economists are obsessed with the concept of the margin and there 's a neat relationship a couple of relationships embedded , alright , er embedded in this relationship between total marginal and average functions that is applicable to all total marginal and average functions whether we whether we be looking at marginal cost , marginal revenue , marginal products , right , the same relationship will hold for all of them . |
| 10 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 11 | Well Sue was Sue erm over the road was telling me erm the money her boys give is a hundred pound a month . |
| 12 | Nor is a spiritual director a guru to whom we turn to satisfy our needs for dependence , even though we may recognize the hand of God providing this particular person at this particular time . |
| 13 | ( Note : When the seller is a public authority a variation of this clause is used ) . |
| 14 | Though this is not to say that abortion is a topic to be taken lightly as it is a human life a woman is dealing with and I think she should think carefully about all her options before she makes a decision but in the end it is her baby and up to her what happens . |
| 15 | This certainly makes room for the many capitalist configurations found in history But some of Poulantzas ' critics have complained that , instead of creating a theory , all he has provided is an overblown list a set of descriptive categories so various as to be applicable to any social formation , and lacking any explanatory bite . |
| 16 | To set a C.B. up all you have to have is an actual set a microphone and a C.B. aerial . |
| 17 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 18 | In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town . |
| 19 | There was a big announcement a number of months ago in Derry where a political party said on the headlines of the news about creating 200 jobs in Derry . |
| 20 | There was a heavy spate a week or two later and the river rose a good five feet higher than normal . |
| 21 | You see , I was a little kid a year ago and I made the mistake kids make . |