Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number it came from would then be revealed by the computer to be such and such a booth in a certain place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer . |
| 6 | The identities of the individual sections may well survive but each member of staff is first and foremost a part of Lothian Highways . |
| 7 | But , however special , it is first and foremost a workplace — in just the same way as a factory , a hospital , or school . |
| 8 | An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows . |
| 11 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Recently my grandfather died — it was sudden and such a shock after my grandmother 's death . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization . |
| 16 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 17 | But whatever the extent of anti-British feeling , the impatience was first and foremost a sign that the final peace showed no immediate signs of becoming reality . |
| 18 | The political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations . |
| 19 | The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time . |
| 20 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 21 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |