Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 2 | The choice of this measure is not arbitrary , for the argument now is that typically a bourgeois client brings an issue to a lawyer , which the latter translates into a meta-language in terms of which a binding solution can be found . |
| 3 | Deep in the shade of the forest , few flowers are formed and pods are even rarer , for another peculiarity of cocoa is that only a tiny proportion of flowers — less than one per cent — are successfully pollinated . |
| 4 | The good news is that only a tiny percentage of these viruses are found in the ‘ wild ’ , perhaps as few as 50 . |
| 5 | The first feature to note is that only a small minority of the listed inhabitants — five persons out of forty-seven — owned any land at all . |
| 6 | One of the advantages of using stripes for a garment is that only a small amount of each yarn is needed and the width of the stripes can also be varied , depending on the amount of each yarn which is available . |
| 7 | It is clear from the above that under the new provisions the general principle is that only a private investor has a right of action for a contravention to which s.62 applies . |
| 8 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 9 | The essence of the public choice problem is that only a single decision can be made and the conflicting preferences have to be reconciled . |
| 10 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 12 | What we wanted to look at to start with was why training is so important , whose responsibility training is and lastly a systematic approach to training . |
| 13 | That accountancy is as yet an inexact science and depends on a number of judgements , estimates , etc . |
| 14 | How to create a constitutional forum for political discussion involving , amongst others , the paramilitary organisations , is as yet an insoluble problem . |
| 15 | Yet the choice of such a neutral form is as much a linguistic choice as any other , and may have implications which may be fruitfully examined in stylistics : the third-person pronoun , for example , distances the author and the reader from the character it denotes . |
| 16 | The feeling was that only a Bass Cup win would save him , despite the tremendous success of last season 's emphatic championship win . |