Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoffman 's measurement of the gamma spectrum was their third signature for neutrons : first there had been their own relatively crude neutron measurements with the dosimeter , then they had seen Jones ' suggestive neutron spectrum and now this ( erroneous as it turned out ) gamma peak . |
| 2 | Leap of Faith will be my third completely straight movie and I want to do more of that and less comedy . |
| 3 | I am the centre of my life , why should n't I be my own most cherished lover ? |
| 4 | She must remember not to be her usual confidently aggressive self if she was offering to take up such a subordinate post . |
| 5 | ‘ I think The Lost Pandas were his first really serious band . |
| 6 | Culshaw reckoned that Karajan , and Benjamin Britten , were his two most intelligent studio artists . |
| 7 | Genet said of himself : ‘ Dehumanizing myself is my own most fundamental tendency ’ ( Our Lady , 82 ) . |
| 8 | 2.75 was a good price , he is their second most expensive signing ( to Shearer ) , not bad for a midfielder with only 4 goals in 8 years . |
| 9 | To these young men , this is their own very special pub because they all have severe learning difficulties . |
| 10 | There is one other almost essential ingredient of the romantic suspense story that can hardly be avoided and yet which perhaps presents difficulties to anyone whose interest is more in the human relationships that are the core of this kind of book than in physical action and violence , things which seem to belong more properly to the thriller . |
| 11 | There is one more very special advantage to being a lodge owner that I would like to disclose if I may . |
| 12 | Before considering even those issues , however , there is one more very obvious question to ask : which is why Tolkien never saw The Silmarillion into print himself , and why the Unfinished Tales remained unfinished . |
| 13 | It 's his second fairly serious relationship and his attitude to sex will come as surprise to most unenlightened adults but it is , according to our survey , a typical one . |
| 14 | This is our eleventh highly successful year running Dinghy Sailing in Nidri . |
| 15 | I remember the shock of realizing that this was my last ever second-year class , then my last ever third-year class , and then people started asking me about my leaving party . |
| 16 | Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response . |