Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can be hugely intelligent when he thinks they can be of assistance to him , but most of the time he knows they 're a poorish and raffish lot , living off their own enthusiasms and frustrations . |
| 2 | I am a small and thin person and being fat was great ! |
| 3 | As I am a mild and gentle man I am always alarmed by such outbursts , particularly if they are of feminine origin . |
| 4 | Since I am a mild and humane man , I did not tell him that it was utterly hopeless , but as a matter of deference to him I presented his formula to George Elvin , who declined to have anything to do with it . |
| 5 | ‘ Generally I am a happy and optimistic person and enjoy life . |
| 6 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 7 | There has been a long and fruitful interplay between the two branches : Pure Mathematics develops methods used in Applied Mathematics ; Applied Mathematics has in turn raised problems which have ultimately led to the creation of whole areas of Pure Mathematics . |
| 8 | Being the sinless character that I am , my quest for a sin has been a long and arduous task ( which started five minutes ago ) . |
| 9 | It had been a long and eventful day . |
| 10 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
| 11 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 12 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 13 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 14 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 15 | It had been a long and exhausting day , and she had to admit that she felt as tired as he looked . |
| 16 | ‘ From the records available , it would seem to have been a substantial and well-constructed building , typical of its time with pleasant grounds and circular carriage drives front and rear . ’ |
| 17 | Protection of the young has ostensibly been a central and ever-present concern in Mrs Whitehouse 's and the NVALA 's campaigns ever since they began . |
| 18 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
| 19 | That had been a great and memorable moment ; that was when they knew he was a man of substance . |
| 20 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 21 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 22 | In Church [ 1966 ] 1 QB 59 ( CCA ) , Edmund-Davies J was driven to say that " there has never been a complete and satisfactory definition of manslaughter " . |
| 23 | For a murderer in a hurry , and this murderer had been in a hurry , it would have been a tedious and uncertain way to get a light . |
| 24 | He had been a keen and willing convert to the cause , his hatred fuelled by Grob Mitzer whom he knew and trusted as a friend and corporate colleague . |
| 25 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 26 | The problem of accommodating inconsistent , if not incompatible GUIs has been a persistent and nagging thorn in the side of industry standards organisations — UI , X/Open Co Ltd and IEEE alike . |
| 27 | How do they feel towards those who consigned them to what could have been a violent and horrific death ? |
| 28 | As a result , there has been a demographic and social differentiation of rural areas that reflects their economic and social functions . |
| 29 | The dinner party had been a private and public fiasco . |
| 30 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |