Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course nothing is a hundred percent safe in in obstetrics or the medical profession . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’ |
| 3 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 4 | ‘ I have played alongside internationals wherever I have been , so of course I am a better player , ’ he said . |
| 5 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 6 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 7 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 8 | The UK Central Council for Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors has issued new guidance to nurses ( UKCC , 1988 ) about drug administration which is a follow-up circular to clarify its 1986 ‘ Advisory Paper ’ . |
| 9 | It rarely achieves its objectives in creating jobs or increasing production , and it contributes significantly to the tropical deforestation which is a current world concern . |
| 10 | At the bottom end of the range is the Tampico Club which is a down-graded Tampico TB 9 , by all accounts a somewhat underpowered aircraft with a reputation for poor field performance . |
| 11 | Such conditions led to areas of swamp which were a natural trap for unwary animals which ventured to the river to drink . |
| 12 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 13 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 14 | Although the mathematical content of Bayes 's paper is not especially noteworthy , it includes a result which is a special case of a more general theorem in conditional probability which , anachronistically , has therefore become known as Bayes 's Theorem . |
| 15 | It promises an openness which is a welcome antidote to the heavy centralisation embodied in the whole process . |
| 16 | The question was , as Hailey inimitably put it : ‘ Can we be sure of the continuance of that degree of acquiescence in our rule which is a necessary condition of administrative progress ? ’ , and the answer which he gave was a resoundingly qualified ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 17 | Can I ask erm the the authority bit of early retirement what happens if erm the county is disbanded under local er government reorganization which is a distinct possibility ? |
| 18 | I have begun quite deliberately with this picture of the mass transhumance which was a characteristic feature of crofting when I first became aware of it . |
| 19 | Of course , for Hitler himself — and for some of his oldest and most fanatical supporters — all these ills were reducible solely to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , a point of dogma which was a fundamental premiss within the Nazi Movement . |
| 20 | I think what I 'll do , you 've got about forty minutes of it today , you 'll get Carl Rogers working with a client called er and then we 'll stop there and then next week you 'll see the er the next behaviourist called er called erm Arnold Lazarus , okay , who you might wan he 's got a book called Multi Modal Therapy which was a big hit about ten years ago and there 's about five copies in the library . |
| 21 | Erm , the second sort is a gap which is a brief silence , usually sort of one second or less , between the end of one turn , and the next speaker actually starting to speak , so they 're still thinking about what they 're going to say . |
| 22 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 23 | Weber makes the switch by applying a microeconomic model of rational action in order to understand action which is a calculated means to an end . |
| 24 | ‘ Tolls are a daily expense which may deter motorists more than a rush-hour permit which is a one-off expense , ’ says Rob Lenterman , of Nedlloyd , a multinational freight company based in Rotterdam . |
| 25 | Signs to the Waterfalls abound , all pointing to the usual entrance which is a short distance along the Thornton road from the centre of the village , passing over both streams on the way ; they come together under the railway viaduct alongside . |
| 26 | ‘ Salome 's had her operation but there 's no change in her condition which is a good sign rather than a bad one … ’ |
| 27 | The new owner may find to their dismay , that they not only have a horse who is a perpetual puller , but one who also refuses to learn to travel more slowly . |
| 28 | Many health authorities employ a continence adviser who is a registered nurse with further training in managing incontinence . |
| 29 | By the way just for the tape she 's a right fuck . |
| 30 | I MISS My War at the Almeida is a first play in English by Iraj Jannatie Ataie , an exiled Iranian poet who was a political prisoner under the Shah 's regime and whose A Cry With Sewn Lips ( in Farsi ) made a moving impression at the Theatre Upstairs four years ago . |