Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 2 | The number it came from would then be revealed by the computer to be such and such a booth in a certain place . |
| 3 | And er they used to trade up and down this room , Miss I 'll be wearing such and such a dress and it 'll be such and such a colour and er then we used to make the hat for it . |
| 4 | But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station . |
| 5 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 6 | He is in a castle in the mountains , where the roads were terrible and all the communication lines were down . |
| 7 | The resort 's advertisements were accurate and all the entertainment and leisure facilities described as free were indeed absolutely free . |
| 8 | Some of the pews were new and both the chancery screen and the choir loft had been refurbished . |
| 9 | that 's right and all the red went into little holes . |
| 10 | No , no , it 's right I said erm the back end is such and such a registration Ford Orion but the front end 's off a Ford Escort ! |
| 11 | Norman is busy trying to get to get to grips with all the paperwork ; security at Chelsea is tight and all the family have to have different passes for each day . |
| 12 | If the value is large and positive the equilibrium lies in favour of the reactants . |
| 13 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 14 | The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer . |
| 15 | The identities of the individual sections may well survive but each member of staff is first and foremost a part of Lothian Highways . |
| 16 | But , however special , it is first and foremost a workplace — in just the same way as a factory , a hospital , or school . |
| 17 | An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise . |
| 18 | For anyone who still needs convincing that Craig is first and foremost a guitarist he quotes an incident that happened when the Y-Fronts got back together for a gig in Melbourne , during the time he was with Neighbours . |
| 19 | ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows . |
| 20 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 21 | In this sense it is first and foremost the executive agency of the mind and is charged with the fundamental functions of decision-making and surveillance of the input from the senses as well as sensations arising from the instinctual drives of the id . |
| 22 | That is first and foremost the business of the political representatives here , who are elected by and responsible to the people . |
| 23 | The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci , and subsequently a gallery of types and humours . |
| 24 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 25 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 26 | The driving mirror is first and foremost an image : a self-reflexive representation or , in psychoanalytic terms , a narcissistic identification . |
| 27 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 28 | Where spray bottles are more widely used and there is a risk of confusion colour coding is desirable and such a provision would take precedence over our control needs . |
| 29 | Recently my grandfather died — it was sudden and such a shock after my grandmother 's death . |
| 30 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |