Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |
| 2 | The fact that the parents are doing their very best will be immaterial if a reasonable parent might be expected to do more . |
| 3 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 4 | The ideal would indeed be attainable if a self-contained system of imperatives could be re-established on foundations other than ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 5 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 6 | An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned . |
| 7 | This exclusion is generally held to be applicable when a criminal prosecution is in prospect . |
| 8 | Before looking at each market in detail it would be helpful if a basic principle could be understood . |
| 9 | It will be clear that the range will be short unless a powerful transmitter is used or the waves are directed to the listener in some way . |
| 10 | Such vaccines are less likely to be toxic than a whole virus vaccine but some researchers believe that they are also less likely to work . |
| 11 | It can serve both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes ; however its effect can be crude when a simple radius curve joins two straights . |
| 12 | A sophisticated package of services will be useless unless an underlying empathy has been demonstrated , and trust established by the social worker . |
| 13 | This precludes the need for the extensive , long range , diffusion of the chain through a highly viscous medium that would be necessary if a regular chain folded structure was to be constructed . |
| 14 | It is essential that these councils are set up as soon as possible so that they may start work on all the detailed arrangements and consultations that will be necessary if a smooth transition to the new funding system is to be ensured . |
| 15 | But this answer is still not satisfactory , for the question remains , why is it necessary for such a unitary space and time to be other than a phenomenological space and time ? |
| 16 | Language , they claim , should never be other than a transparent medium through which the meaning can be seen . |
| 17 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 18 | May not be suitable where a substantial payment has been made for goodwill . |
| 19 | The absence of endowments before the time of the Emperor Constantine inevitably meant that well-to-do Christians had much influence on their local communities , which could be decisive when a new bishop was being chosen . |
| 20 | It would be surprising if a similar tally were not being kept in Moscow now , against the day when Gorbachev may over-reach himself . |
| 21 | The lifeworld is the intuitively present , in this sense familiar and transparent , and at the same time vast and incalculable web of presuppositions that have to be satisfied if an actual utterance is to be at all meaningful , that is valid or invalid . |
| 22 | The de Rosier team argue that this need not be true if an active site on one part of the molecule can affect other sites on the complex in such a way as to facilitate movement of intermediates between sites . |
| 23 | But Mr Bouterse said Mr Shankar had not complained loudly enough , then claimed to be appalled when a Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain for a meeting with the Dutch prime minister , Ruud Lubbers . |