Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Belgian Red Pied is also a dual-purpose type but has a great deal more red in the coat than the White-and-Red . |
| 2 | Keeping warm is obviously a prime necessity in the freezing temperatures of the Rocky Mountains , and the coat of the mountain goat , as the Indians and European explorers discovered , fulfils this need superbly well . |
| 3 | Colourful is perhaps a polite way to describe this BRCW three-car dmu set P460 with 51317 the leading car . |
| 4 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 5 | Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea . |
| 6 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 7 | Being sexy is just a fat arse and tits that will do anything you want . |
| 8 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Learning to be independent is also a large part of the education at New College . |
| 10 | This document has not been translated into Dutch , but I imagine that , had it been , extracts such as the one quoted above would have presented the Dutch translator with a problem ( bearing in mind that the above is only a short extract and that a similar pattern of thematic development runs throughout the Foreword ) . |
| 11 | The protection of our environment world-wide is also a major focus for our expertise , and waste management consultancy is just one of the services for which our customers turn to our Environmental Safety Centre . |
| 12 | That individuals and groups should feel free and unintimidated is certainly a necessary condition of free discussion , free decision-making and free consent ; but it is not a sufficient condition . |
| 13 | But there are more fundamental reasons why unity with either Rome or the Orthodox is still a long way off . |
| 14 | A corrosive is simply a powerful acid that eats through steel . |
| 15 | Recursive branching is also a good metaphor for the embryonic development of plants and animals generally . |
| 16 | The probability of the universal generalization being true is thus a finite number divided by an infinite number , which remains zero however much the finite number of observation statements constituting the evidence is increased . |