Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 2 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 3 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 4 | In a management buy-out , the managers are in a unique insiders ' position . |
| 5 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 6 | His view was that erm if he was armed he had been armed in the past , he had discharged a firearm , he felt that er he would be in a desperate position erm , as he was an escaped prisoner and that he he would n't have erm any influence over him . |
| 7 | Life 's too short it certainly can be in a racing driver 's career to relax . ’ |
| 8 | Some household maintenance jobs may be beyond a young husband 's understanding but again this is an area where wise counsel can be recruited from the local body of Christ . |
| 9 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
| 10 | We a , but we are on a regular day er |
| 11 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 12 | He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room . |
| 13 | Anything to break the monotony of waiting , yet being at a split second 's notice to move , to any incident , anywhere in the city . |
| 14 | You were at a known dealer 's house , so where exactly does that leave you ? |
| 15 | He really believed that he could do this through , through the form of the Blitzkrieg , that is through a limited war er which would secure military objectives and then produce a political peace and the model er for his er policy was in fact the eighteenth century where many wars occurred between European powers wa impo imperial wars and wars on , on t on er total Europe , but none of these wars resulted in the destruction of any state . |
| 16 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 17 | He needs to be thinner , he 's like a bloody dustbin ai n't he ? |
| 18 | He 's in a playful mood int he ? |
| 19 | if it was he 's in a bad way int he ? |
| 20 | It 's in a white envelope wi you know where you 've got that clear plastic thingy and it 's got your name and address ? |
| 21 | While each college is to a large extent sui generis it is possible to divide them into three main groups . |
| 22 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 23 | I was like a dead lamb 's tail . ’ |
| 24 | Uncle Kevin was in a big solicitors ' practice : they 'd find a place for him . |
| 25 | One was from a retired ship 's captain , now living at Fowey in Cornwall , giving news of his house and garden ; the others were impersonal , acknowledgments of subscriptions to various charities , and some business letters from the estate agent who dealt with the letting of the two other flats . |
| 26 | I was on a real holiday buzz , had a big , erm … party , y'know , and got totally fuckin' kettled . |
| 27 | So congratulations to Bicester , after the game I managed to catch up with Colin Vynal who scored one of the goals , rather poor quality I 'm afraid , he was on a mobile phone erm a bit of celebration going on , but here 's Colin Vynal of the Bicester Rugby Club . |