Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 2 | Well , it 's been a joy to meet you this evening , please can I have another signed photo to replace the old one ? |
| 3 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 4 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 5 | There will be a competition to decide which 15 |
| 6 | He 'd be a fool to throw it all away now that SA are back in business . |
| 7 | You can really be a snake eating its own tail and drive yourself nuts with , ‘ Will people like this or that ? ’ |
| 8 | ( It would clearly be a mistake to spend it all at once and then not be able to advertise for the rest of the year . ) |
| 9 | Derby used the machinery of the Lancashire provincial Division to gather his forces , but it would be a mistake to see his institutional position as a source of strength ; the President of the Lancashire Unionists was a man of influence because he was Earl of Derby and not vice versa . |
| 10 | It would be a delight to have her bright spirit about the place . ’ |
| 11 | They 're all trainees when you 've been in the company ten years , twenty years you can still be a trainee learning something new . |
| 12 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 13 | There 's a poem says it all . |
| 14 | If it 's a problem throw it all away . |
| 15 | If it 's a problem throw it all away . |
| 16 | Where there 's a will there 's a way to keep everyone happy . |
| 17 | Bastard Wet Crack ( There 's a name to get them all queuing ! ) |
| 18 | I must say it 's a pleasure to give you that |
| 19 | How is a user to know which multi-word terms in a system have been inverted and which have not ; or , with three-word terms or more , which option for rearrangement of the words has been chosen ? |
| 20 | It is a privilege to pay them this small token of respect . |
| 21 | Here is a chance to test your ecological intelligence . |
| 22 | Impatience even — which is a blight threatening us all the time . ’ |
| 23 | There is a necessity for us to behave like this in order to cope with the informational complexity with which we are perpetually faced — we ‘ know ’ something works so we do it , bracketing off the rest of the world until it becomes clear that there is a need to change our basic beliefs . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , there is a need to protect what little green field sites we have left in the Borough and if the Council can be swayed in such a manner against the interests of the town , then what will happen to the face of our town is anyone 's guess . |
| 25 | ‘ All I ask is a corner to warm my cold hands and a sip of milk … oh let me in … ’ |
| 26 | Had dinner with Eric McCormach ( ‘ an enticingly diabolical imagination ’ ) whose Inspecting the Vaults ( Bloomsbury , £4.99 ) is a book to give you sleepless nights . |
| 27 | It is astonishing , given the need for monitoring , that the Commission 's Sixth Report on the Completion of the Internal Market , published in June 1991 , makes almost no reference at all to the enforcement of provisions of the single market , and although there is an account showing which national parliaments have legislated on the directives , implementation at national level is only one side of the coin : the report does not address implementation at local level . |
| 28 | Here was a chance to put his new policy into practice . |
| 29 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 30 | I knew it was a mistake to help my silly wee sister paste pictures into her scrapbook in the sitting room . |