Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 2 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 3 | Robert Allen , AT&T 's boss , and other top managers are convinced that as a service business , the firm needs a highly motivated workforce . |
| 4 | The weather had been appalling and as a result the whole family had caught colds . |
| 5 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 6 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 7 | A corporation tax deduction will be available to Newco for contributions made to a non-qualifying employee trust provided that : ( a ) the contributions are regular and of a revenue nature ; ( b ) the contributions are voluntary ( so as not to constitute annual payments within s337(2) ( b ) TA 1988 ) ; ( c ) the class of beneficiaries under the trust is confined to employees of the settlor company , so there will need to be multiple settlors if all the employees in a group of companies are to benefit and the various companies in the group that are contributing wish to ensure corporation tax deductions ; and ( d ) the companies themselves are entirely excluded from benefiting under the terms of the trust . |
| 8 | It should not be thought that because we are elderly and in a warden controlled complex , we have ‘ lost our marbles ’ . |
| 9 | Russia 's position , which had come under pressure in the CSCE summit in July [ see p. 39031 ] , appeared to be softening when at a meeting with his Baltic counterparts on Aug. 6 Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev proposed a 1994 withdrawal date . |
| 10 | ‘ She did n't do that , but I 'm sure that with a bit more time she would have . |
| 11 | Shall we be alone or in a crowd ? |
| 12 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 13 | When someone dies , then , there is a vast range of practical decision-making to be done by people who , as we have said , are likely to be shocked and in a state of indecision . |
| 14 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 15 | For example , no neuron behaves like a RAM chip , and synapses do not appear to be symmetric as in a Boltzmann machine . |
| 16 | Such reduction would have to be necessary because of a reduction in the school 's capacity to accommodate pupils . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend will be aware that as a result of the debt crisis , over the past few years the ECGD has accumulated a deficit of more than £4 billion which is , of course , a deficit that falls to the taxpayer . |
| 18 | Either through the necessity to obtain items which they believe are essential or through a desire to be one of the gang and valued by their peers . |
| 19 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 20 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 21 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 22 | They were unhappy and in a hurry to get clear of the trees ; they started if a mouse stirred , and when an owl hooted they seized their swords . ’ |
| 23 | The walls were bare except for a photograph of a number of village men standing in front of a house the house . |
| 24 | The mullahs were concerned that in a republic the Muslin clergy might be disestablished , as had recently happened in Turkey . |
| 25 | The Davy lamp was the direct result of the mine owners ' concern to recover coal , not from deeper shafts but from existing workings that were inaccessible because of a process known as ‘ creep ’ . |
| 26 | It would be a great shame to see shoppers travel from miles to the jewel in the crown of Darlington only to discover all the spaces in one of the town 's most central car parks had been snapped up and no more were available because of a council and a car park company going round in circles . |
| 27 | I 've not , Alastair accused me of being topical because of a member of the royal family this week this is not the reason but I 've gone for Leotard in the one twenty five at Cheltenham . |
| 28 | Some compare Portia 's characteristics to that of the Queen at the time — Elizabeth I. Women were thought of being inferior and for a woman to have so much power was a very rare situation . |
| 29 | Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition , which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing . |
| 30 | We 've er added extra staff in , in er credit control departments where it 's been necessary and by a process of education , at every Pearson seminar we rang home the message of the importance of cash and James provides examples of different methods of operating and the effect it has on cash and what happened to market share ? |