Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By snubbing Napoleon III , Bismarck made the provocative nature of his policy quite clear and it is a measure of how confident he felt that he scarcely bothered to conceal it . |
| 2 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 3 | But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in . |
| 4 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 5 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 6 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 7 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 8 | The tone of these programmes tends to be relentlessly promotional , but the occasional clip might be useable and it 's a source worth investigating if you are short of materials . |
| 9 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 10 | Love of family , of children , of life itself ; love of God , though she is a devout Muslim and I am a Christian ; shared curiosity , and genuine pleasure in each other 's company . |
| 11 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 12 | ‘ My older son would like to make friends , too — he gets so bored and he is a bit jealous of the baby . |
| 13 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 14 | But they 're they 're very disadvantaged and they 're a bit of an eyesore . |
| 15 | Their activities are perfectly normal and it is a pity that adults are sometimes over-ready to become uptight about it . |
| 16 | I settle to a large Lagavulin in relief , and watch Martin Stephenson illustrate just why he is a full-time professional and I am a dilettante moonlighting journalist with the eternal excuse that there might be a column in it . |
| 17 | Souness said : ‘ Paul 's strong and he 's a competitor . |
| 18 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The whole situation is quite frightening and it is a matter of taking precautions without arousing too much concern with out neighbours or families . |
| 20 | I wonder if it 's the opposite and they 're a sort of post-acting civilization , maybe the first one on the earth . |
| 21 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | His Brazil Nut slabs were especially good and it was a shame when the business closed in about 1930 . |
| 23 | It 's black and it 's a board . |
| 24 | I 'm black and I 'm a nigger ! |
| 25 | They now call themselves S.B. International and they 're a TRESemmé appointed salon — call for details and appointments . |
| 26 | ‘ Well if a guitar solo is played right it can sound absolutely great , but 99 times out of a 100 they wo n't sound great and they 're a waste of time . |
| 27 | In fact this is more interesting than you may think because female hyenas have a pseudo-penis , they have , they have a pseudo-scrotum and a pseudo-penis , reasons which are n't fully understood and in order to mate , the male has to insert his real penis into the female pseudo-penis in order to reach her her genital and it 's a bit complicated . |
| 28 | Her arm was draped elegantly across his shoulders , and she was looking at him with eyes like headlights , as though she were starving and he were a cream cake . |
| 29 | The relevant business of the taxpayer was the exploitation of film rights exercisable overseas and it was a business carried on in Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |