Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [be] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any person who can not appreciate the obligation this imposes is not a competent witness . |
| 2 | But I would prefer not to alert our Ministry of the Interior — given that this has been purely a secret service matter of the DGSE until now . |
| 3 | ‘ This has been quite a punishing time and some of my family have been badly hurt . |
| 4 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 5 | But Humphrey argues that such a design might well not produce consciousness , because the sensation from which the latter arises is essentially a redundant survival from primitive forms . |