Example sentences of "[art] [adj] be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 3 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
| 4 | Which of the following is not a mouthbrooder : Shark Catfish , Severum , Egyptian Mouthbrooder ? |
| 5 | The following is essentially a list of categorized items to ask for , so that you can get quickly into segmental phonology . |
| 6 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 7 | The diagnostic is simply a warning . |
| 8 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 9 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 10 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 11 | The scriptible is not a thing but a process , and is therefore not assimilable to the structures of poetics . |
| 12 | Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience . |
| 13 | leaf and flower calyx strongly aromatic , used in potpourri , and tussie-mussies , herb pillows , for burning in the home to replace smells ; oil used in perfumery , e.g. Hungary water NB The above is only a selection of the uses of rosemary ; there are many , many more and it is , more than most , a herb for everyday use . |
| 14 | They allow us to describe , as the episteme of a period , not the sum of its knowledge , nor the general style of its research , but the deviation , distances , the oppositions , the differences , the relations of its multiple scientific discourses : the epistemic is not a sort of grand underlying theory , it is a space of dispersion , it is an open field of relationships and no doubt indefinitely specifiable . |
| 15 | Heroes could be any one of these or many other heroic individuals — the Emperor Magnus the Pious was merely a student of theology when he began his march against Chaos , for example . |
| 16 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |