Example sentences of "in [adj] [be] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 2 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 3 | Usually , what all the ghosts have in common is a tragedy suffered during their life on earth , and they will reappear to a family descendant in the attempt to resolve what could not be resolved in life . |
| 4 | The only cause they had in common was a refusal to eat meat . |
| 5 | ONE goof made by Michael Dukakis during his campaign for America 's presidency in 1988 was a speech attacking foreign investment . |
| 6 | Mechanisms to make this possible were first introduced in 1982 , but only in 1988 was a debt/equity swap programme introduced . |