Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for Mr Goldin the folly of admitting , even temporarily , as New York 's mayor , Ed Koch , did last year , that , perhaps , in a province with a large pro-British majority , the British are not an occupying army after all . |
| 2 | And Bretons and Basques tell us that being French is not a unitary condition , but rather a state of dynamic equilibrium between unity and diversity . |
| 3 | Though entertaining is not an essential part of the media relations programme it can often help to smooth the way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 6 | Philosophical Idealism , then , was well suited to be called upon as testimony in support of what , after all the huffing and puffing was basically a political programme . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But perhaps Ratty would above all treasure the slow pace of life and the almost Latin approach to the world — taking things easy is n't a common trait in Germany , but when the ‘ Manyana ’ way of life takes hold the Germans certainly do it well ! |
| 9 | Colourful is perhaps a polite way to describe this BRCW three-car dmu set P460 with 51317 the leading car . |
| 10 | Which of the following is not a subjective statement : |
| 11 | Being familiar with Elstree , Spencer elected to fly Oscar Whiskey from there , and taking-off was not a major problem , despite the length of the runway . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The weeding out of the congenitally unfit was only a secondary process , less important than the pressure encouraging most individuals to become fitter . |
| 14 | The habit of treating man as the norm and the feminine as negative is not a syntactic rule . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Numbers have not been too good and although last sing-a-long was not a total washout financially speaking , he feels a good attendance and atmosphere are more important . |
| 17 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 18 | So , his Bengal is also an invented framework , a device , and yet a device which , he hopes , will enable him to show more of the truth than simple realism could . |
| 19 | The development of the television subgenre of the novelistic is not a completed form and may never reach classical definition , but it can be traced historically from forms of narrative inherited from radio , theatre and popular entertainment to forms more appropriate to the specific conditions of television . |
| 20 | For example , in the experience of lawyers generally , use of the expression " salaried partner " will indicate that the person concerned is not a full equity partner in a firm ; but the lay client may naturally miss the significance of " salaried " and be more influenced by the reference to " partner " as indicating membership of the firm . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Being sexy is just a fat arse and tits that will do anything you want . |
| 23 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 24 | What is important is not a simple concept of cause , but the coincidence of themes . |
| 25 | Learning to be independent is also a large part of the education at New College . |
| 26 | My conversion to the Arctic was still a little while away . |
| 27 | The sector with which we are here concerned was thus an exceptional breach in a hitherto all-male part of the labour market . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THE STAIRS Three tambourine men who claim that retro 's not a dirty word … |