Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] a [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature .
2 You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line .
3 Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ?
4 It 's a two and a half second sequence — I 've timed it .
5 If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds
6 I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur .
7 It is a deadly and a serious one .
8 First , there are factors related to the size of the country and its internal organisation : whether it is a federal or a unitary state for example .
9 Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used .
10 At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave .
11 We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives .
12 However , it is a commonplace that a decision-maker who is given an apparently unfettered discretion must still exercise his power within the limits imposed by the law .
13 That the dish is tasty and that another helping will upset the stomach are relevant facts because they do modify inclination ; that it is a rainy or a sunny day and that the wallpaper is yellow or white are irrelevant because they do not move the child in either direction .
14 ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab .
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