Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twenty nine year old was serving an eight year sentence for burglary at Grendon prison near Aylesbury . |
| 2 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 3 | One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values . |
| 4 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 5 | At one end of the Square , presided over by the statue of Beethoven , a group of Vietnamese were staging an anti-communist demonstration complete with public address system . |
| 6 | A good way to get the very best out of your stay in the Seychelles and appreciate the wide variety of wildlife and rate species of birds in particular is to take an island-hopping holiday . |
| 7 | But what is more difficult is to have an agreed view on how many people will die and at what rate , in the year two thousand and one and beyond . |
| 8 | Retix Inc is hosting an OSI Forum in conjunction with the CCTA at The Royal Aeronautical Society , London on July 8th : the agenda includes messaging , GOSIP guidelines , transaction processing , migration strategies and OSI installation . |