Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Georgina 's in quite a state , underneath the armour-plated shell . |
| 2 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 3 | Bernard Ellis and his wife Megan are among only a handful of people in the world capable of making the reproductions . |
| 4 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 5 | John was by then an adult , of course , aged about thirty , and also a married man . |
| 6 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |