Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [coord] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be strong and to have a reputation for being so is a source of self-esteem . |
| 2 | Both these days will have to be self-financing and need a minimum of 30 people attending — therefore — please complete the slip at the end of the notes and return to the Office . |
| 3 | Please try to support this event ; tell anyone you think might be interested and bring a friend ( or 2 ? ) |
| 4 | Please try to support this event ; tell anyone you think might be interested and bring a friend ( or 2 ? ) |
| 5 | Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific . |
| 6 | He 's got his name down like so he might be lucky and get a phone call cos he |
| 7 | You may be lucky and find a router bit to reproduce the original moulded sections ; more likely you will have to resort to the scratch-stock . |
| 8 | Enough money to be comfortable and have a holiday . |
| 9 | Models can be useful and have a part to play , if built on a sound theoretical basis . |
| 10 | I said so to Tom and he said of course this girl is n't all that popular with the men — that 's an important part of a production assistant 's job — and he said ‘ she 'd give anything to be in your place — to be married and have a baby ’ . |
| 11 | He wanted to be married and have a family and he said this way I 'd have to marry him . ’ |
| 12 | Each child 's desk should be tidy and have a place card . |
| 13 | With some people it pays to be deferential and to use a title until told otherwise . |
| 14 | I do n't want him to be unhappy and have a breakdown . |
| 15 | The selected site should be flat and require a minimum of earth-moving and levelling ; |
| 16 | The strongly authoritarian role of the head of the family has been undermined by the opportunities created by urbanisation for young people to be independent and earn a living outside the family , and by conceptions of the North American family as portrayed by the media . |
| 17 | Consideration of the diversity of difficulties that face attempted suicide patients , and the range of both the degree of suicidal intent and risk of repetition associated with their behaviour , should have demonstrated why it is most important that the facilities available for management of these patients must be flexible and allow a variety of options . |
| 18 | But if Lisa er would be plain and have a chat , put your |
| 19 | Maybe one day she will be beautiful and become a model or film star . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps he should be practical and take a wife for comfort . |
| 21 | There is no such thing as bad publicity , and sometimes the only way to force change is to be anti-social and become a problem which eventually the authorities have to deal with . |
| 22 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , who refused to sign the agreement , returned to Zagreb where he warned that " all-out war " could be imminent and convened a crisis session of the war cabinet . |
| 23 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 24 | But , as a very rough guide , the first frosts — occurring around Guy Fawkes ' night and corresponding with intensive leaf-fall — mark the time when your fish will cease to be active and enter a state of semi-dormancy . |