Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’ |
| 2 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 3 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 4 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 5 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 6 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 7 | The part number , like the module name , must be unique and therefore an error will be indicated if you try to reserve a package name equal to a part number which already exists . |
| 8 | The part number , like the module name , must be unique and therefore an error will be indicated if you try to reserve a module name equal to a part number which already exists . |
| 9 | It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long . |
| 10 | God knows what Pybus saw in him , because if you could buy skill Meek would be bankrupt and still a crap player . |
| 11 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 12 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 13 | Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town . |
| 14 | And this involves both the right to decide that a breach of the law of nature has taken place , a right to decide what punishment is appropriate and also a right erm to implement this judgment . |
| 15 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 16 | After her success with Kate Moss , Sarah now hopes to work the same magic with Kate 's brother Nick , who is 16 and still a schoolboy in Croydon . |
| 17 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 18 | The establishment is open but once a week at present and is then usually manned by a civilian worker . |
| 19 | But if knowledge is relative and ultimately a matter of human constructs , then such work may alter the very boundaries of our disciplines , and indeed help us to overcome the ‘ artificial ’ constraints of compartmentalized knowledge ; and the appropriate label is ‘ interdisciplinary ’ . |
| 20 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 21 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 22 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 23 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 24 | He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with . |