Example sentences of "be an [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you could sh I mean we 've got the curtains sort of left handed , it might be an idea to have the blind pull on the left hand end as well . |
| 2 | This is because there will be an opportunity to shelter the resulting " trust gains " from capital gains tax until such time as capital payments are made by the trustees to UK-resident beneficiaries ( see s97 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 3 | There would also be an allowance to cover the additional expenses which disability inevitably incurs . |
| 4 | It would be an overstatement to interpret the 1972 Act as a planned and conscious attack on the size of the prison population . |
| 5 | It would be an oversimplification to reduce the complex ideology of the movement to the positions of a minority within it , or to assume that such a viewpoint will necessarily prevail . |
| 6 | ‘ IT USED TO BE an honour to have the local MP to dine , ’ a big Yorkshire landowner told me . |
| 7 | This explanation is suspect , because the behaviour of other types in the early periods does appear to be an attempt to imitate the dominant strategy type ; there is an attempt at reputation building . |
| 8 | Planning may be an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable but green belt is one of the most successful all-purpose tools invented with which to try . |
| 9 | Kafka wrote that a book should be an axe to shatter the frozen sea within us ; Eliot said that we should properly ‘ find Othello or Lear frightful ’ . |