Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 2 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , who refused to sign the agreement , returned to Zagreb where he warned that " all-out war " could be imminent and convened a crisis session of the war cabinet . |
| 3 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 4 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 5 | Many were two-storeyed and followed a custom not familiar in the classical period of Greece in that two orders appeared on the front colonnade , Doric on the ground floor and Ionic above as in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos II of Pergamon in the agora of Athens ( 38 ) . |
| 6 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 7 | Mother had so much to do outside and the old folk living with us were ailing and needed a lot of attention . |
| 8 | The Seagate ST3 144A hard disk is reasonable and ran a nose ahead of its uncached contenders . |
| 9 | So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Roch said that because the defendant was deaf and had a speech disability a social worker , Jill Hughes , would sit in the dock and translate . |
| 11 | Endoscopy was normal or showed a hiatus hernia without oesophagitis in 66 patients . |
| 12 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 13 | Other girls at Group included ‘ Jolly Molly ’ — plump and good-natured ; Harriet , who was trying to improve her mind and always listened to the afternoon plays on BBC radio ( relayed to each hut over the Tannoy system ) ; Veronique , who was stage-mad and had a friend in the current London production of Lady Windermere 's Fan , and dough-faced Olive ( more about her a bit further on ) . |
| 14 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 15 | The interviewing panel was civil and included a peer of the realm , a major-General , and a gentleman farmer . |
| 16 | Rev. Levitt 's antipathy sprang from the fact that when he was ill or needed a break in the non-stop Day of Atonement services it was Percy Lovitch who deputised for him , his tall corpulent figure seeming to fill the small pulpit and his exquisite tenor voice quite outshining Rev. Levitt 's pedestrian baritone . |
| 17 | The jetty was large but needed a lick of paint and its wooden supports were green with sea slime ; it also lacked ( to my inexperienced eye ) any sense of efficiency . |
| 18 | Owing much in design to S. Vitale in Ravenna but on more elaborate lines , it was originally symmetrical and had a western entrance with atrium and two-storeyed gallery ; the courtyard here was large and had a capacity of 7000 . |
| 19 | The voice was deep and had a drawl to it that Lizzy did n't like . |
| 20 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 21 | She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust . |
| 22 | They walked back towards the lawn in a procession at the pace of Richard 's small strides until he stumbled over a tussock of grass , admitted that he was tired and accepted a ride on the detective 's shoulders . |
| 23 | She was thirsty and wanted a drink . |
| 24 | The court itself took the point that the committal was invalid and quashed a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | Constanza was tough and had a will of her own like Anna . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 27 | Number 50 was the home of the Bannell family — father , mother and two daughters — one of whom was deformed and made a living , hand-weeding the lawns in The Close , one son a tailor , who was a cripple and one granddaughter . |
| 28 | He was unshaven and looked a bit rough . |
| 29 | In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action . |
| 30 | His view was that numbers would speed up moves by helping players identify each other more quickly , but the Football League was outraged and forbade a repeat . |