Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price .
2 He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way .
3 Any man who 's fool enough to believe that a model 's doing anything but her job on the catwalk — ’ His laughter stopped her in mid-sentence .
4 It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ?
5 It is important also to remember that a post or pension given to a member could be a reward for past services as well as a means of securing future ones .
6 As with any accountability procedure it is insufficient just to indicate that a failure has occurred ; information must be forthcoming on how to improve educational practice .
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