Example sentences of "be [adj] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is unified at the ideal level , but the physical manifestations of the vertebrate archetype are each a distinct product of the Creator 's will . |
| 2 | But for every example of an imaginative triumph over adversity — Roderigo 's ill-fated attempt to murder Cassio was staged in a bath-house for want of the necessary costumes — there are half a dozen examples of night scenes clearly shot in broad daylight , choppy scene transitions , and poorly recorded dialogue that drains Shakespeare 's lines of much of their beauty and meaning . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 4 | I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Now I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister ; herself the inventor of the Madrid conditions , and now their arch destroyer . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 7 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 8 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 9 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 10 | Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry . |
| 11 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 12 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 13 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 14 | Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ? |
| 15 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 16 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 17 | On 1 August 1834 , after attending the wedding of his daughter Priscilla who had been such a tireless assistant to her father , Thomas Fowell Buxton and his gentlemen associates attended a ‘ grand public dinner ’ to celebrate the end of slavery with toasts and speeches . |
| 18 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 19 | As a result of this new alliance with the bishops , we see little of the anti-episcopalian rhetoric which had been such a prominent feature of the Whig platform during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 20 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 21 | It 's not been such a great campaign for those formed by 1969 rather than 1968 ; in other words , for female journalists who were reared on Greer . |
| 22 | A friend of mine in Houston , who has followed the orchestra since the 1940s , explained why Eschenbach has been such a great success in Houston . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was because there had been such a short gap between this meeting and the burial of her husband . |
| 24 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 25 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , World Cup hero Alan Ball has been such a big hit with Graham Taylor that he could soon be named as England 's permanent coach . |
| 27 | This is why there has been such a rapid growth of organic foods and mineral waters . |
| 28 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 29 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 30 | You 've always been such a wonderful sister to me . |