Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You erm you 're , you 're a bit uncertain and a bit nervous all the way through it but I think it was , it was basically because you |
| 2 | Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale . |
| 3 | The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 5 | It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business . |
| 6 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 7 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 8 | Is the Minister aware that a respectable reason for high interest rates is the control of inflation ? |
| 9 | Is the Minister aware that a number of stud farms in my constituency , including two owned by Her Majesty the Queen , and also stud farms in general make a tremendous contribution to the rural economy ? |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 11 | Now that 's a plus six and a plus four what 's the answer ? |
| 12 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 13 | It 's a bit better than a hundred and one pound ninety two pence . |
| 14 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 15 | They need to have somebody that 's a bit liberal and a bit open and that wo n't be available under a Conservative government will it ? |
| 16 | Helped by gearing that 's a trifle lower and a torque peak shifted down to 3,200rpm , the Legacy can be booted around on little throttle ; engine response to small pedal movements is swift and crisp . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 18 | Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk , especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller — you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine . |
| 21 | It is no doubt true that a biological perspective will make one more suspicious of extremely intellectualist or , again , very purist views of morality ; but equally , so will a reasonable historical and psychological understanding of morality . |
| 22 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 23 | Given these curious aspects , it is a bit surprising that a logical net 's learning process succeeds . |
| 24 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 25 | Is a computer better than a doctor ? |
| 26 | Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed . |
| 27 | The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception . |
| 28 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 29 | And there is a lot more than a little . |
| 30 | Even an understanding husband may feel resentment if his wife is a mother first and a wife second . |