Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’ |
| 2 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 3 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 4 | They are more than just a money machine . |
| 5 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 6 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 7 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 8 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 9 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 10 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 11 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 12 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
| 13 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
| 14 | Peter Hewitt explains how a new managers ' toolkit proved to be more than just a game |
| 15 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 16 | But it would be more than just a production job . |
| 17 | ‘ There could be more than just a career , ’ she said softly . |
| 18 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 19 | It is hoped that courses tailored to particular IT topics will be available as both a control and a development provision . |
| 20 | God knows what Pybus saw in him , because if you could buy skill Meek would be bankrupt and still a crap player . |
| 21 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 22 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 23 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 24 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 25 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 26 | Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town . |
| 27 | It is noticeable that even a writer like J. 5 . |
| 28 | And this involves both the right to decide that a breach of the law of nature has taken place , a right to decide what punishment is appropriate and also a right erm to implement this judgment . |
| 29 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 30 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |